Hot spots

Jennifer Fingerhut
Graysmith
English 151
17 April 2011


“ We can never forget that everything hitler did in Germany was “legal””(77). This was the first hot spot I chose. This hot spot made me think a lot. Was everything really legal? I am jewish and am home for a holiday right now and when I read this I really started to think about my religion and about the holocaust. This then got me thinking to what is considered fair and just now. I think this story opened my eyes to discrimination and although it is happening a lot less around the world today it is still going on. What can I do to make it stop besides not discriminating. The next hot spot I found was on page 85.” I’m sorry that I can’t join you in your praise for the police department”. I just thought this line was really funny when I read it it gave me a good laugh. No one really likes the police we may appreciate them but everyone is still scared. Seeing that the police were on a certain side and that citizens were praising them is such a different thought in my head. This brought me back to the idea of what laws are just and what laws are unjust and made me question what I believe in. 
 my first hot spot was found on page 114. “ A judge ruled a 50- year old Aboriginal man’s rape of a 15- year- old girl was not a serious crime, but an example of traditional culture”.This first hot spot shocked me. I didn’t no this could even happen I chose this because it opened my eyes to a new situation. If this happened in the news in American culture there would be protests and fights until the outcome was changed. Woman are often raped because of their culture, religion and background not because of who they are. “ It seems the best way to liberate woman is to bomb them”(118). This was the second hot spot I found and it made me angry. Who things that any of the horrible things going on for woman today are liberating I think this is a sick thought. I did not like this sentence but then again the whole story did make me a little upset. Everyone has a different culture but how does this change what is moral or not. I think this sentence also opened my eyes by saying not everything in the world is fair. Some things are different for different cultures and I am lucky to be from where I am from. If I was from anywhere else my life could be totally different in order to be free I would have to be “bombed” in some kind of way.