Edith Velmans’s Edith’s Story (1998), “Prologue” and Chapters 1-9
Important!!!
1. Make an argument essay. Don’t write summary.
2. this short essay must have an introduction and conclusion
3. Three full pages
4. MLA Style
For this essay, please use only the “Prologue” and Chapters One through Nine (pp. 1-75) of Edith Velmans’s Edith’s Story. Although these sections include some of the adult Velmans’s retrospective reflections on her life as a Dutch Jewish girl during World War II, they also contain the diary entries that she was writing from 1939 onwards. Obviously, while recording as a teenager the events unfolding around her, she had no idea of what would be in store for her, her family, or the Jewish communities in the Netherlands. In reading her diary entries, how and where do you see Velmans’s situation changing, so that it is clear she is increasingly living in a world that is becoming a war zone—especially for her, as a Jew? What are the signs of this? Does she, as a teenager, also recognize this shift, or do you understand more about these developments than she does? How do her age, her social class, her gender, and her sexual orientation, as well as her Jewish heritage, all factor into what happens to her, how she reacts, and what appears to matter to her? Where—if at all—do you find yourself empathizing with her?
Please make an argument about these matters, by drawing on the questions above.
Be sure that you present specific examples from the text in making your argument and in supporting it with evidence.
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