Kindness is a very interesting word with a simple definition, however when put it into action the idea is much more complicated and complex. Diversity is a similar word that has a very simple definition but a deep complexity when put into action. How is it as people that we can take very simple positive words and make them very complicated and bleak, our nature makes us so. The idea that is brought forth in Anne Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” is very dark and angry, her meaning behind that poem I believe was to depict the human race as we are, as animals. People would prefer to think that good outweighs the bad however, when genocide is concerned that is simply not possible. The complexity of this issue will keep a person up at night, after reading …show more content…
Humanity needs to grow in leaps and bounds in order to achieve the true ideals that have been laid before us. Humanity must start to look past blind hatred and ignorance in order to be kind and evolve past blind brutality. The question then should be, how? The answer is not within the poems that we read from people who have lived through the cruelty, the answer is not in the headlines that people read on a daily basis, and the answers are not coming from politicians or television. Where does one begin to look for the answer? Do we look to the children that have already begun to make changes in the world by helping people, the small heroes of the world that have yet to find their true voice but have pure ideals that are already starting to be formed. Could we as a society begin to learn from the views of unbiased children? These questions may never have answers but asking the right questions starts people in the right direction. Society is in need of direction and education and recovery, people need to look at these atrocities as more than happening somewhere else because just like in “First They Came for the Jews” there may be in fact a time again when no one is left to speak for you. (Schilb and Clifford