INDEPENDENT READING BOOK

Chokyab Sherab

Mr. Gallegher

12 CP Period 1

04 Nov, 2010

Parallel Journey  

In the Eleanor H Ayer’s memoir parallel journeys, the violent and in normal scene of the world war two. He was grow as a Hitler youth, and Nazis brain washed all the Non-Jewish German youths in school and everywhere to blind follow the Nazis and promise glorious future. Alfons Heck was one of many of Hitler youth and because of that culture of violence in his youth life and wrong training affected his entire life.

            Alfons Heck was born around 1930’s in Germany, Nazis educated youth with many there goodness and glorious future, as child and train him as blind follower in the passage ““Our troops went into the Poland this morning,” She(Grandmother) replied tonelessly “we are at war,” with that I was like awake, “it’s time” I shouted, “The poles have mistreated our people much to long,”” unlike Heck’s grandparents and parent, Heck was Hitler said and believe glorious future of German and world leader.

            In the climax when their city was burned and totally destroyed by allies, and nothing was left, Aflon Heck started to realize that Hitler’s promise of glorious future was over, and the most powerful German army force in the world was destroy. In the passage “at the moment, I did the unthinkable I finally accepted Germany’s defeat’ he was with full of surprise to accepted their defeat, Hitler and Nazis promise leave then sad and miserable, destroy.

            At the end when he was United States and shared his life experienced under Nazis German with American college and High School youth. He thought about Hitler as a god and gave his loyalty and believed attitude totally changed. In the passage “We, the young fanatics of the Hitler youth, also became the victim of our Fuhrer.” He thinks Hitler was a misleader and problems creator. Who pull the loyalty of nation’s youth, and misuse them on his power, and Hitler not only rue his own life but also leave black name all the his youth and follower. He felt guilt to be a Hitler youth, and regret for follow himm.

            Alfon Heck was youth under Nazis doing the WW2 and he was fanatic youth of Hitler. He was totally believed for Hitler as many other German and believed in Hitler glorious future without doubted, until they lost the war. After that he realized what he did do and his fellow done to Jews and other countries. That they just follow Nazis order without thinking and created many shameful things. He was regret been a Hitler’s fanatics and felt guilt been a part of the Hitler youth.