The Moon is Down Question 8

In my opinion, The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck represents events in history very well.  The events that happened in the novel did not actually happen with the same people or town but most likely happened elsewhere.  Small towns in Europe were probably invaded by Nazi soldiers during World War II and innocent people were forced to do hard and treacherous work.  In my last blog I said I knew a lot about World War II because I have learned it each year in my history classes.  From what I have learned, the events in The Moon is Down are very accurate to what actually happened in real life. 

            The Nazi’s were cruel and messed up people and all they wanted was power.  This act was shown in John Steinbeck’s novel, The Moon is Down.  An example of this act of cruelty was when Alex Morden was given a death sentence after killing Captain Bentick with a pick axe because he wanted to quit his work.  A death sentence or “death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime” ().  This penalty is given in the United States of America but in the novel it happened differently.  Instead of killing Alex Morden in private, the Nazi’s shot him in front of the whole town.  That is something people do not need to see especially it is someone they know well.

There was one particular relationship in the novel and it was between the Nazi’s who were evil and the townspeople who were good.  The Nazi’s were evil because of a strict leader named Adolf Hitler.  Everything that happened in the Holocaust was his entire fault.  He killed millions of men, women and children.  How could someone live with that?  Anyway, back to the whole relationship thingy.  The Nazi’s scared the townspeople which gave them a source of power.  They made sure that they stayed in control and kept the townspeople scared of them. 

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Steinbeck, John. Novels, 1942-1952: The Moon Is Down ; Cannery Row ; The Pearl ; East of Eden. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2001. Print.