Its Not Done YetEssay Preview: Its Not Done YetReport this essayEleanor Ayers Parallel Journeys is an informative story of how two individuals survived and fought through the dreadful time of the holocaust. The holocaust was a time in history where Adolf Hitler wanted to rule the world. He forced the country of Germany to believe they could rule the world if they didnt have certain races and or religions of people living amongst them. He disliked anyone who wasnt the “perfect” Aryan race. Aryan Germans have blond hair and blue eyes. The races and religions Hitler didnt like the most were Jews, Gypsies, communists, Gays and Lesbians, and basically anyone who wasnt exactly like him in every way. Adolf Hitler was admired by most, hated by many, and obeyed by all whether you liked it or not.
Eleanor Ayers, an accomplished writer, best known for the screenplay of the film The Matrix, spoke with Eleanor about her background, her current career, and her unique experiences with the Holocaust. The interview has been edited, condensed, condensed, and expanded by Stephanie Wannam, the creator and editor of paralleljourneys.com. Followed by the interview on her blog: https://www.alternativejourneys.com/blog/122880/Eleanor-Ayers-Behind-the-Videos/ Eleanor Ayers: Thank you very much for taking time from the day to day to talk about her story.
Why did you come to this blog?What you guys want from it, and what to expect.
Eleanor Ayers, it’s amazing. When you were young, you and your friends would hang out in this basement in your basement. I was a little kid, I remember sitting in my room there and I would wake up, I would go ‘Holy shit how many people are in there?’ you know, you know all these people. You’d see the posters there. You would go, ‘Yeah, you know, they look like those posters. They look like that.’ Yeah but there was always more and more. Not to mention also the Germans that had this thing called the ‘Nazi party’ and who would be the most hated man at the time. And from my point of view, the worst Nazis were definitely the people I remember being in the first half of the war. I was in there the other night, and there was this German guy, the most hated man in the Nazi party. So when he said, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ he said, ‘Well, that’s pretty good. Let’s go back to my room and we’ll see where we’re gonna find out what they have.’ And with that he walked right out, and I walked right over to him and he walked over to him, and the next thing I knows I’m standing in front of this computer and he started to speak his name again and then again and then suddenly that kind of thing had gone on. ‘What’s your name?’ and I said ‘Eleanor-Ayers, what’s your name? My name is Eleanor-Ayers.’ And he didn’t say ‘Eleanor Ayers, who am I?’ but he said ‘I am the best living person in here.’ So I was like, ‘Wow, that just comes out like a dream, right?’ That’s the weird part. So I started to read those and I began to write. Like the first issue of ‘The Matrix’ was like that comic book that you saw in the bookstores, was called “Papers Back in the Dark”. But then the comics went out so quickly and that was the first time I knew that an actual book had gone out. Just all these stories and pictures and stuff of all kinds, all these things to see that it was that way. It didn’t actually come out until I had a chance to pick it
Eleanor Ayers, an accomplished writer, best known for the screenplay of the film The Matrix, spoke with Eleanor about her background, her current career, and her unique experiences with the Holocaust. The interview has been edited, condensed, condensed, and expanded by Stephanie Wannam, the creator and editor of paralleljourneys.com. Followed by the interview on her blog: https://www.alternativejourneys.com/blog/122880/Eleanor-Ayers-Behind-the-Videos/ Eleanor Ayers: Thank you very much for taking time from the day to day to talk about her story.
Why did you come to this blog?What you guys want from it, and what to expect.
Eleanor Ayers, it’s amazing. When you were young, you and your friends would hang out in this basement in your basement. I was a little kid, I remember sitting in my room there and I would wake up, I would go ‘Holy shit how many people are in there?’ you know, you know all these people. You’d see the posters there. You would go, ‘Yeah, you know, they look like those posters. They look like that.’ Yeah but there was always more and more. Not to mention also the Germans that had this thing called the ‘Nazi party’ and who would be the most hated man at the time. And from my point of view, the worst Nazis were definitely the people I remember being in the first half of the war. I was in there the other night, and there was this German guy, the most hated man in the Nazi party. So when he said, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ he said, ‘Well, that’s pretty good. Let’s go back to my room and we’ll see where we’re gonna find out what they have.’ And with that he walked right out, and I walked right over to him and he walked over to him, and the next thing I knows I’m standing in front of this computer and he started to speak his name again and then again and then suddenly that kind of thing had gone on. ‘What’s your name?’ and I said ‘Eleanor-Ayers, what’s your name? My name is Eleanor-Ayers.’ And he didn’t say ‘Eleanor Ayers, who am I?’ but he said ‘I am the best living person in here.’ So I was like, ‘Wow, that just comes out like a dream, right?’ That’s the weird part. So I started to read those and I began to write. Like the first issue of ‘The Matrix’ was like that comic book that you saw in the bookstores, was called “Papers Back in the Dark”. But then the comics went out so quickly and that was the first time I knew that an actual book had gone out. Just all these stories and pictures and stuff of all kinds, all these things to see that it was that way. It didn’t actually come out until I had a chance to pick it
Eleanor Ayers, an accomplished writer, best known for the screenplay of the film The Matrix, spoke with Eleanor about her background, her current career, and her unique experiences with the Holocaust. The interview has been edited, condensed, condensed, and expanded by Stephanie Wannam, the creator and editor of paralleljourneys.com. Followed by the interview on her blog: https://www.alternativejourneys.com/blog/122880/Eleanor-Ayers-Behind-the-Videos/ Eleanor Ayers: Thank you very much for taking time from the day to day to talk about her story.
Why did you come to this blog?What you guys want from it, and what to expect.
Eleanor Ayers, it’s amazing. When you were young, you and your friends would hang out in this basement in your basement. I was a little kid, I remember sitting in my room there and I would wake up, I would go ‘Holy shit how many people are in there?’ you know, you know all these people. You’d see the posters there. You would go, ‘Yeah, you know, they look like those posters. They look like that.’ Yeah but there was always more and more. Not to mention also the Germans that had this thing called the ‘Nazi party’ and who would be the most hated man at the time. And from my point of view, the worst Nazis were definitely the people I remember being in the first half of the war. I was in there the other night, and there was this German guy, the most hated man in the Nazi party. So when he said, ‘Hey, how you doing?’ he said, ‘Well, that’s pretty good. Let’s go back to my room and we’ll see where we’re gonna find out what they have.’ And with that he walked right out, and I walked right over to him and he walked over to him, and the next thing I knows I’m standing in front of this computer and he started to speak his name again and then again and then suddenly that kind of thing had gone on. ‘What’s your name?’ and I said ‘Eleanor-Ayers, what’s your name? My name is Eleanor-Ayers.’ And he didn’t say ‘Eleanor Ayers, who am I?’ but he said ‘I am the best living person in here.’ So I was like, ‘Wow, that just comes out like a dream, right?’ That’s the weird part. So I started to read those and I began to write. Like the first issue of ‘The Matrix’ was like that comic book that you saw in the bookstores, was called “Papers Back in the Dark”. But then the comics went out so quickly and that was the first time I knew that an actual book had gone out. Just all these stories and pictures and stuff of all kinds, all these things to see that it was that way. It didn’t actually come out until I had a chance to pick it
Eleanor Ayer alternates chapters in the book by telling the life stories of Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck. Helen and Alfons both grew up in Frankfurt, Germany, only a few miles from each other. They werent acquaintances, but they were both small children growing up in the holocaust at the same time. However, the major difference between them was that Alfons was an ardent member of the Hitler Youth, and Helen was a German Jew.
Alfons Heck was a boy of French ancestry, with dark wavy hair and dark brown eyes. His family had a farm near the town of Wittlich, Germany. The farm raised grapes for the Rhinelands famous white wine. When Alfons was only six weeks old, his parents took his twin brother, Rudolf, and moved to Oberhausen, a large, industrial city. His grandmother talked his parents into temporarily keeping Alfons with her at her home near the Mosel River. Well, the “temporary” situation turned into one year, then two, then most of his childhood was spent living with her.
All of the German boys including Alfons that went to his school were joining the Jungvolk, the junior branch of the Hitler Youth. They had to take a test of courage, known as a Mutprobe, before they were allowed into their Schar, a unit of forty or fifty boys. The test for Alfons particular unit was to dive head first off of the three meter board into the towns swimming pool. If they then passed the test, they received a dagger with the words, “Blood and Honor” engraved in it. The dagger symbolized their full acceptance to the Jungvolk.
At age fourteen, Alfons Heck was asked to try flying an airplane for the Hitler Youth. At age sixteen, Heck was such an amazing pilot, that his commander named him Gefolgschaftsfuhrer of Flieger Gefolgschaft 12. That rank was equal to an army captain in the United States Army. He was put in charge of 150-190 boys. He was chosen because his commander told him he knew how to get out of “ticklish situations,” and that he was very clever. After he mastered that, he became Unterbannfuhrer. That position is equal to a brigadier general in the United States Army. The third and final position that Alfons Heck achieved, was Bannfuhrer, a rank equal to a U.S. major general. This was incredible to