A Broken World

Lindsay

History—it was something more than just a bundle of facts, dates, events and wins or loses and so on and so forth. Before I started to get to know about history, I did not understand of the people who were so excited about history. And how they could memorize it—and actually have fun telling the history. How can they do that? That was my question. And I always asked teachers: “why is history so fun? It can be sad and teach us some lesson, but how can it be so interesting?” All the teachers I asked to answer: “history itself is a drama and a “never-ending story” that has the power of not boring the readers. What??

It was the BIG QUESTION of how history could be so interesting. But as I saw the connection of how the events relate to each other, how the historical figures react to the incidents each time. I was happy to realize in depth, especially when I found out some more things about the figures that I heard before, or the events that were well known, but when I didn’t know so well that I couldn’t say anything about it. For instance, I was a fan of the movie, Pearl Harbor, and also the book, Pearl Harbor written by John Steinbeck. But neither the movie nor the book, I couldn’t understand. I was concentrating on the characters on the movie, and I couldn’t understand the book so well. However, recently as we learned about Japan attacking the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, as I recall the memory of the movie and the book, now I get what it was about. With the historical background in my head, I could see the picture. And it was more interesting that what I thought. Other than this, I realized it from many others.

Hitler. I have never known the background, his personal background, his life at a young age and so on… (Hitler at his young age…)
I never knew that is life experience would have affected his act of violence. Yet this was nothing about religious revolts, but his experience at a young age, it was actually

Sometimes, it seems obvious for of what will happen next. History it is like story that it has patterns; yet not exactly a pattern we could say but we get the sense of realization.
And through these kind of lectures… I found the fun of history and the power of history. And that’s why I asked to get in AP World History: to go in depth. what led him to the violent tolerance of the Jews and strong and powerful lead of Germany.

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