In are humanities class we are learning about world war two. Right now we are focusing on the holocaust so we watched Schindler's list. Schindler's list is about a a German business who was a Nazi During the time of the holocaust. Schindler wants to make a lot of money by exploiting Jewish workers. But as there fate becomes more clear to him he feels the need to help them. Schindler feels sorry for them and ends up saving 1100 Jewish people, by buying them off, from being gassed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The word power to me means many different things it can vary from someone with authority who can strike fear into anyone or someone that is powerful within themselves so a person who can overcome anything internally. I think that power to Goethe was being able to ruler over anyone and being able to have that persons live in his hands. I think that power to Schindler was being able to have the power to kill but not doing it. I think that Goethe defiantly misused power because any chance he got he would take in order to kill another Jewish person he extremely crude and you could almost say evil. Schindler at first was in a way misusing power by having the Jewish people work in his factory because that way he made a bigger profit.But as time goes by Schindler begins to feel sympathy for the Jewish people and uses his power in the best possible way which is to save there life's even thought it may have cost him his.
Schindler did start out at the "antihero" but over the time he did transform into an actual hero.one event where you can clearly see this is the scene where all the Jewish people are loaded on to trains and it is extremely hot out. so Schindler feeling sorry for them hoses all the carts down with water several times and asks one of the men riding on the train to give them water every time the train stops. This scene is where you can see his character start to change.another scene where you can really see how much Schindler changed is at the end when he is getting ready to get in his car and leave the Jews because of the war coming to an end. Schindler brakes down and starts crying because he thinks that he could have saved more people if he would have tried.Schindler starts comparing his material things to people and he is conferred by all the 1100 Jewish people he saved. This scene is very powerful and shows that Schindler was an extraordinary man and hero.
I think this film was effective because we able to see how live was really like for Jewish people at the time of the holocaust. We were able to see how normal families just like ares were being torn apart and how they were helpless and couldn't do anything about it.a scene that i think everyone found powerful was the scene were all the German solders were rounding up the Jewish families and how they treated them as if they were worth nothing. this scene was effective because we were able to see with great detail how horrible it was to for Jewish families to not know how long they would be in one place for, where they would go next, if there family would split up or even if they would live another day.
