... it is during a business deal and he is being shrewd and tough. This makes us want the Christians to succeed and Shylock to loose. Shakespeare associates "good" with Christians and "bad" with the Jews, when clearly he is biased. But what makes the Christians right? Somehow this group of Christians are like vultures; picking at the vulnerable one. Bassanio who labels ... old man. His own daughter remarks, " But though I am a daughter to his blood, I am not to his manners." Another example of this unlikeable side is "What, what, what, ill luck, ill luck?" He is personified to be happy abou...

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... . Ruth's mother was crippled on her left side and her father would tell her that she disgust him and he didn't want to see her. She felt bad for her mother because despite the abuse she got from her husband and the fact that he was cheating on her, "She kept the religious traditions of a ... her." (McBride, 41) Ruth would rather die than have an arranged marriage. Ruth's father hated black people more than gentiles. He treated them horribly by selling them bad food at inflated prices in his store. He would see them walking to church on sunday and remark, "They don't have a dime in their p...

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... . Ruth's mother was crippled on her left side and her father would tell her that she disgust him and he didn't want to see her. She felt bad for her mother because despite the abuse she got from her husband and the fact that he was cheating on her, "She kept the religious traditions of a ... her." (McBride, 41) Ruth would rather die than have an arranged marriage. Ruth's father hated black people more than gentiles. He treated them horribly by selling them bad food at inflated prices in his store. He would see them walking to church on sunday and remark, "They don't have a dime in their p...

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... sisters back in Vienna. His mother insisted that he would leave and try to survive, without turning back. Everyday he had to remember leaving them, he often worried and felt bad because he never knew what was happening to them. After leaving his family he was off to visit his Aunt and Uncle. In order to make it where they had ... . One big question was what out of so many people what did Leo do differently to survive?. Was it that he had more strength, more will, or was it just luck. So many people died in the Holocaust and very few survived. In a way I do not think anyone can answer tha...

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... than most, and formerly for a short time I was a soldier in the Imperial Army. In fact, to tell you the truth, I"m not a religious man, I"m a freethinker." He believes he has had such bad luck, that it is useless to pray to G"d, and therefore he is more of an atheist, or a freethinker, than he is a Jew. He states he is a Jew only "by birth and ... ...

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... Stern, he draws up a list of names, "Schindler's List", consisting of more than 1,100 men, women and children. He races against time to save them. In the end, through impossible luck and strong determination, Schindler rescues "his Jews" - the Schindlerjuden, as they will call themselves. Schindler has little left but his car and the clothes on his back. He even gives ... seems inevitable towards such ruthless people. Children weren't treated any differently. They worked side by side the adults and were killed side by side with the adults. It's really too bad that there weren't more peo...

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