The Sunflower Simon Wiesenthal Character Analysis
The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal is a novel that tests your morals to the limit. The novel raises question after question, primarily on the topic of forgiveness. Simon is the protagonist in the novel and he faces death in the mirror as he is Jew in a German concentration camp. Throughout the book, you even question your own mortality and the quality of a person you are. Death is Simon’s best friend, the Nazis despise Simon, and a sunflower is more than just a flower.
Simon Wiesenthal is an innocent, Jewish man living in an unfair world. The novel begins with Simon already being kept prisoner at the Lemberg Concentration Camp. The men inside the camp do not hear any news of what is going on in the outside world.
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As the group was marching there, they came to a halt at a crossroads. Then suddenly, Simon noticed something that he envied so greatly. There was a military cemetery to his left, with all the graves aligned in stiff rows.
On each and every grave, a little sunflower was planted. Simon visualized the sunflowers connecting the dead to the living world. The sunflower represents the simplest of things that Simon could never have. Murderers get their own grave and sunflower, yet innocent men like Simon get dumped into a mass grave with complete strangers. Those sunflowers really stuck with Simon throughout his dreadful time at Lemberg. How come murders get sunflowers and innocent people get dumped like garbage? That was just the kind of sick world poor Simon was living in.
As the group approached the hospital, Simon realizes something. The hospital used to be the old Technical High School. It looked practically the same to Simon as he stood in front of it, astonished at what the world has come to. Simon and the inmates then began the long, gruesome work ahead of them. Later on, Simon took a brief break to
Simon Wiesenthal is an innocent, Jewish man living in an unfair world. The novel begins with Simon already being kept prisoner at the Lemberg Concentration Camp. The men inside the camp do not hear any news of what is going on in the outside world.
Therefore, …show more content…
As the group was marching there, they came to a halt at a crossroads. Then suddenly, Simon noticed something that he envied so greatly. There was a military cemetery to his left, with all the graves aligned in stiff rows.
On each and every grave, a little sunflower was planted. Simon visualized the sunflowers connecting the dead to the living world. The sunflower represents the simplest of things that Simon could never have. Murderers get their own grave and sunflower, yet innocent men like Simon get dumped into a mass grave with complete strangers. Those sunflowers really stuck with Simon throughout his dreadful time at Lemberg. How come murders get sunflowers and innocent people get dumped like garbage? That was just the kind of sick world poor Simon was living in.
As the group approached the hospital, Simon realizes something. The hospital used to be the old Technical High School. It looked practically the same to Simon as he stood in front of it, astonished at what the world has come to. Simon and the inmates then began the long, gruesome work ahead of them. Later on, Simon took a brief break to