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The Sunflower taught learning lessons of history, forgivess, pentinence,morality, and ethics. What amazed me most about the Holocaust was that no other country tried to intervene until the end. The reason why I find this so disturbing is that we as Americans seem to always noses in other countries problems but why wasn't there any intervention until the end? Basically I feel that we as Americans have not learned anything from the destruction of the Holocaust because we continue to exhibit these same types of attitudes while going to war. If you think about it in war who are the people who suffer at the hands of their leader? Its the people of the lower economic status either dying or fighting for either monetary gain or power. I also don't see how the other races stood by and watched what was happening to the Jews. Did they convey the mind set that they were exempt from this type of behavior? How did they know that their ethnic group wouldn't be singled out next? It is truly unbelievable how other races were able to function with all of the death, destruction, and carage around them portraying acceptability. I can think of hundreds of questions to ask those who watched this happen but it's very hard to define acceptable answers. What suprised me the most about the Sunflower was the all of the additional viewpoints of diverse individuals which gave many different perspectives, ideas, to help you formalize and create your own opinion. The religious aspects had a great impact on the difference in view point which I believe was very detrimental to how diverse people are and how religous beliefs also shapes morality.Overall the Sunflower was a great book written so vivdly that the reader could picture the events as they occured. This book gives the reader incentive to either want to learn more about history and how it intermingles with current events in the world today or continue to be oblivious (ignorant) to social issues.
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Updated: Thursday, 17 March 2005 1:42 AM EST
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