I Will Protect You by Eva Mozes Kor by Abigail Haier

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:02:15 UTC

Two twins, Eva and Miriam, are captured with their family by Nazi's because they are Jewish. They were starved, experimented on, and traumatized by seeing bunches of diseased people and some they knew. They lived in "Auschwitz" for a while but were soon brought to freedom by Soviet soldiers.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:10:30 UTC

The twin's mom has an embroidery that says, "Your mind is like a garden, plant flowers so weeds can't grow"( Kor 198-199).This is important in the story because the twin's use this as a way to live their lives after they are saved.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:16:32 UTC

The tattoos that they get by the Nazi's symbolize their name. Each person that was captured gets a tattoo and they don't have a name anymore, the number is their name.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:22:47 UTC

Eva forgiving Dr. Mengele symbolizes healing in her heart. The book states, " By not letting him hurt me anymore, I let myself continue my life and no longer feel like a trapped victim. For me, forgiveness is about personal healing"( Kor 195). She is healing by forgiving.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:30:35 UTC

"I will survive, I vowed. And Miriam will survive. We are not going to end up on the floor like those children. We are not going to be killed in gas chambers. No matter what it took, we were going to walk out of the gates of Auschwitz at the end of the war. Alive" (Kor 80). This quote is important because, it shows the hope that Eva has to get her and her twin out of those gates no matter what and they are going to do it alive.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:43:10 UTC

I connected to Eva, because at the end of the book "I Will Protect You" by Eva Mozes Kor, Eva forgives Dr. Mengele and says forgiving to her is about personal healing. I connected with this because I feel that forgiving makes one's heart happier and helps with healing. Her heart was just beginning to heal by taking this step.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:47:01 UTC

Dr. Mengele experiments on Eva and Miriam, two twins, and this causes Eva to get very sick to the point that she was so close to dying. Soon Eva gets better and this time Miriam is the one who gets sick, really weak, and eventually dies.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:50:48 UTC

Forgiving is a form of healing one's heart. I think this is important in the book because the author says, " For me forgiveness is about personal healing" (Kor 195). This is evident because forgiving was a big part in Eva"s life.

haierabigail — 2025-02-17 01:55:06 UTC

Eva has to go through trauma in Auschwitz, she and her sister were starved, experimented on, and traumatized by seeing diseased friends almost everyday. After she was saved by the soviets she still had to deal with the pain and trauma from the trauma in Auschwitz.