Titanic Forgiveness

If I was a man on the Titanic while it was sinking I would be very angered and disturbed that the captain of the ship would not share with anyone that the ship was sinking.  It's partly understandable because it had been said not to sink and the captain didn't want to admit that it was sinking.  If I had seen the lifeboats which were filled only halfway I honestly wouldn't know what to do with myself.  Some of the things that happened had two sides to them.  The lifeboats not coming back for drowning people is a great example.  If the lifeboat would have come back and been flipped over then there wouldn't be any survivors at all.  Although some of the things the captain did and didn't do were very bad and inconsiderate he should be forgiven. 

Doomed men of the holocaust

"Now we marched mechanically along the street-a column of doomed men."

This quote alone raises so many thoughts and questions on how the men felt about their future.  The way the word mechanically is used makes it seem as if the men didn't know what life was anymore.  It's similar to how a job works sometimes.  You work for so long you don't think about it anymore you just zone out and mechanically do the job.  The placement of this sentence in the book and the words used make you realize how little hope they had.  It's almost as if the Germans took all of these men in and completely brainwashed them of anything that they used to know.  Throughout the whole book Jews were seen as objects instead of people.  No one ever considered their feelings or what they had to say.  It's pretty sad that people let this happen.  Although many did not know about the holocaust the ones who let it happen are horrible.  Anyone that took place in the holocaust should not ever be forgiven.  I think that they shouldn't because they did all of this cruelty for no reason at all.  I have nothing against Germans today or the Germans that didn't support the holocaust.  Although the ones who knew about should have at least done something about it.  So throughout this story and this quote you can see how the Jews had no hope of a future and also no feeling of freedom at all.

To forgive is to know.

The statement I think that deserves forgiveness is the statement about the soldier obeying his commander's order to shoot an unarmed mother and child.  The reason I think the soldier deserves forgiveness is because he or she had probably never been taught otherwise.  If you had never heard of anything else and you were taught that they were the enemy naturally you would do what your commander tells you.  Also if the soldier didn't do what the commander told them to do there would more than likely be very bad consequences maybe even including death. So although what the soldier did seems horrible, you need to factor in what they know and also the consequences of not doing it.