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    The book report summarizes the plot of The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. It describes how Wiesenthal was a survivor of Nazi Germany and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. While there, a dying SS soldier confessed to Wiesenthal that he had killed Jews, including children, and asked for forgiveness. Wiesenthal struggled with whether or not to forgive the soldier. In the end, he chose not to tell the soldier's mother about his crimes when he visited her years later, so as not to take away the good memory she had of her son.

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    The book report summarizes the plot of The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal. It describes how Wiesenthal was a survivor of Nazi Germany and was imprisoned in a concentration camp. While there, a dying SS soldier confessed to Wiesenthal that he had killed Jews, including children, and asked for forgiveness. Wiesenthal struggled with whether or not to forgive the soldier. In the end, he chose not to tell the soldier's mother about his crimes when he visited her years later, so as not to take away the good memory she had of her son.

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    The Sun ower Book Report

    In The Sun ower by Simon Wiesenthal, the book talks about Simon as a victim of

    Germans Nazis. He experienced it and endure it. He became one of the few survivors

    out of the millions Jews who were persecuted . Simon was an architect, as a young age

    he knew himself was a second class civilian. Throughout the book the narrator

    struggled in his meeting with the bandaged man, and the problems he found when he

    was int he concentration camp.

    The narrator was an architecture, he was a educated man but like others Jews

    and Koshers it wasn’t anything superior form the others. One day the narrator’s leader

    or general walked Jews and Koshers to an hospital that once was a school which the

    narrator studied in. Located in Lemberg. This is the town where the narrator also grew

    up. The Germans and Russians where always mean to the Jews. At school they make

    up a “no Jew day” exactly the day from which everyone has to take an exam. Their

    purpose was clear, they didn’t want any Jews to pass the test so that they could not be

    educated. If any Jew showed up on the exam day, the Germans will extremely beat him

    up. When the narrator passes the road to the hospital. He saw every German Nazi

    grave has a sun ower on top. He starts to think of the signi cance of it. He envies them

    being murderers and having a sun ower on their grave and not as himself. If he dies he

    will be dumped in a mass grave.

    When he got into the hospital, a nurse asked him to follow her. He went and she

    showed him a bandaged man. The man was very ill his eyes were covered and his ribs

    were showing. He could barely speak with the narrator. The man held the narrators
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    hands and confess to him what he had done. He killed Jews including children which

    were helpless captured in a house put on re. The man said he didn’t want to do so

    and he regretted. After that he could not sleep well he sometimes could dream of those

    parents jumping out of the window with their children. He said his relation with his father

    had worsen after he joined the Hitler Youth. Now he regrets to do so and throughout the

    conversation he vaguely expresses that he wanted to be forgive. The narrator didn’t

    forgive him. After the narrator returned to the concentration camp, he told his comrades

    the meeting he had with the bandaged man. Their reactions were mostly negative they

    thought for them as subhumans to forgive a man he is like a superman is mostly

    impossible. Also it was not the narrators business because the man should ask

    forgiveness from those who were being murdered.

    The next day the narrator went back to the hospital. The nurse told him the man

    died yesterday and he told her to give a bundle to the narrator so he could give it to the

    bandaged man’s mother. He rejected and went away. He began to think of the man and

    his confession it couldn’t get out of his brain. Two years later, Simon’s comrades all

    died. He survived, and in on of those occasional days. He saw a garden of sun owers, it

    reminded him the bandaged man. He decided to visit his mom. the man’s mom was

    proud of his son and Simon struggled to tell the truth that her son has done. Finally he

    kept silence and left.

    For a man who had been in the concentration camp not having enough food,

    over laboring, get beaten. Constantly watching people dying including small children.

    Would is be easy for him to forgive those who brought this hell for him? Simon felt

    sympathy of the man but he couldn’t forgive him because he was not affected by him.
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    But at last when he met the man’s mom he showed forgiveness or sympathy. HE didn’t

    want to ruin the memory of a good son for her mother. For us the audience, we only get

    a feeling the author gives us and we could not put the shoes of his position. When we

    confront the question of forgiveness. Would we choose to avoid it or forgive someone?

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