Analysis: The Longest War

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The Longest War

One of the main problems in today's and yesterdays world is segregation and discrimination. It has been going on for a very very long time, dating back to B.C. Even though as a society people have made progress in making everyone equal, the fight to achieve complete equality still has a long way to go. The battle against discrimination needs to continue, and we won’t stop until everyone is treated equally despite their differences. It’s a long road to get there, but we need the endurance and the support to finish and beat discrimination. In the eyewitness account, Eugene Black | Slave Labourer and Camp Survivor, the theme shows that discrimination is unfair and unjust. In the interview, Civil Rights for All, the theme is never
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Eugene talked about the harshness of how they treated him and why to show readers how unjust it was. In his eyewitness account, the text talks about how they treated him at the camp. One example is, “Eugene's job here was to load small trucks with rocks dug out from the tunnels for 12 to 14 hours at a time, without rest and on starvation rations. He became increasingly weak and after five months caught pneumonia.” That piece of text shows how harshly they treated him at the camp. But why did they treat him this way? Just because he and his family were Jewish. I learned this from the text because it states, “He saw an SS man hit his mother across the face and push her on to the lorry. Eugene wasn't allowed into the house; he was forced onto the lorry with the rest of his family and other Jewish people from the ghetto. The lorry was driven to a nearby brickyard, where the Jewish population was being forcibly gathered together.” That quote shows that just because one person for some reason didn’t like Jews, they were treated harshly after they were captured forcefully. As you can see the idea of the eyewitness account on Eugene is to show that discrimination is unfair and unjust, so we have to stop it. He wanted to share his story to show others, we have to win the fight against discrimination because it hurts so many innocent