In the face of inhumanity and the evils of mass genocide, do you believe that it is possible for a concentration camp prisoner to retain a sense of hope for a better future – or do you believe that the realities of the Holocaust have stripped prisoners of optimism? Explain your position.

I believe that the holocaust stripped it's prisoners of not just optimism, but a sense of hope, and a will to live. Because just think of it, you know that they are going to kill you, your family, and your friends. there no escape so what were they able to do? nothing. they had to accept that they were going to die, they just didn't know who would the next to go. Now I don't want to sound to dark, but they all knew they were going to die, they just couldn't fight it.

Explanation:

no

to kill a mockingbird basically is about a lawyer who goes against everything in a racist society like at the time of this novel, to defend a black man accused of sexual abuse. in the bible there are cases like that of joseph, who was accused by the woman of potifar, for a crime similar to that of tim robbinson, of that novel (genesis 39: 1-20). at this point we see that god also provides the escape to joseph, who was accused unjustly, but in his time, and through his attitude, his faith was not shaken, and god provided the solution. the perspective of god also written in the bible and not pay evil with evil. (ephesians 4: 32, 1 thessalonians 5: 15, 1 peter 3: 9). atticus, the lawyer, demonstrated during this lee novel, empathy, love of neighbor, understood the situation of this accused man. he went against everything in that society, and stood in favor of that man, for the injustice committed. this shows the empathy, the love taught by christ, in some passages that speak of love and justice in the sermon of the beatitudes (especially verses 6 and 7 of matthew 5).