Beauty can exist in the wake of brutality”

Every minute there’s around 100 deaths. Every minute there’s 245 babies born. Every year out of 1,000 people, 4.95Percent of that gets divorced in the U.S.. In our English class we’ve read a book called,The book Thief, By Markus zusack. The story was based upon the time Hitler was taking over. There was a young German girl named liesel who lost her brother on a train on their way to meet their new foster parents Hans Hubermann and Rosa Hubermann. She’d have to continue this journey alone.Her mom was a communist, in order to keep the children safe, she’d have to give them up. In every brutal situation, there’s always something good to come out of it.

Many tragedies occur in everybody’s life. It doesn’t necessarily mean that a tragedy won’t bring happiness in the end. Sixteen years ago my mom was pregnant with me. Also, sixteen years ago, two weeks before I was born on March 22nd, 1997 my grandpa died from a sudden heart attack. He was 75 years old. Nobody wanted to mention anything to my mom for the sake of her health and mine. Everybody loved my grandpa. My family members have told me that he was the kind of man that loved taking his grandkids everywhere! I wish I had one of those memories with him too. My mom finding out about her dad a couple weeks later devastated her. For months, even years. That’s a kind of pain that just won’t ever go away. In the story, “The book thief,” there was a scene when Hans hubermann handed a Jew a piece of bread as “the parade” of Jews were walking down their street. Hans could see the pain in each one of those jews. The starvation from being able to see the skeleton like corpse. AA
soldier had seen and realized the starving Jew on the floor holding Hans’s ankles thanking him for the bread, the soldier quickly went over to the scene and started whipping the Jew. Nobody could stop him, not even Hans. Soon after, Hans knew it was his turn next. Oncethe soldier had killed the Jew, He then started whipping Hans in anger. When the soldier was done, Hans slowly made his way back up to his feet. The whip burns were brutal.t Hans is a strong man physically and mentally. We can’t stop anything from happening. On April 15th, 2013, was the day the bombing at the Boston Marathon occurred. Three died and over 100 people were critically injured. Nobody knew why they planted those bombs there, and we probably won’t ever find out.

There came something good to each of these tragedies. My mom lost someone special from her life, also gained another one. Realizing that still awaiting for her at home were two daughters, a husband, and a new born baby girl lessened the heart ache. The example from,The book Thief,showed a lesson which lead to a happy ending. From the start, liesel developed a great relationship with her new father since he had never cursed at her as much as her foster mother did. Hans would stay up all night helping liesel read stories. He gave up his sleep. Liesel had the heart of her foster dad, and did the right thing to opposet what everyone else believed was wrong, and fed the Jews. If it wasn’t for Hans making that sacrifice, Liesel wouldn’t have had the audacity to break the law too and feed the Jews at the next parade that occurred. Now there were a few more Jews fed that day. The Boston Marathon bombing may had been an awful devastation for millions around the world. The tragedy also brought those millions together. Out of those millions, even actor Bradley Cooper, took time out of his busy schedule to meet a man at the hospital who had his legs amputated after the incident.

In every bad situation, you can always find something good to come out of it. I don’t like to think of my grandpa’s death as a horrible tragedy more as an angel was brought up to heaven, while another was brought down to earth. The situation in, “The book thief,” showed a happily ended lesson. The Jews were able to have their last meal, liesel gained courage, and Hans was a hero even if most of the town didn’t think so. The bombing in Boston was uncalled for. Even though some may have lost their loved ones, we can see the bright side of this. This tragedy brought millions around the world together. When things like these occur, tragediesmakes a stronger you, a stronger us, and the ability to keep going.