Essays on The Pianist
In this essay, I will be exploring my cinephilia moment. I will be talking about a scene that has left an interest in me from the movie “The Pianist” by Roman Polanski as well as breaking down the scene in greater detail to explore further what made that scene stand out. Firstly let me explain...
In the memoir In the Country We Love: My Family Divided, Diane Guerrero talks about the struggles she went through because of the United States immigration policies. At an early age, her parents were deported leaving her abandoned with no one but herself. Being alone in a world full of people put Diane Guerrero in...
These people existed in non-intersecting worlds: a teacher in a German village school and a talented, world-famous Polish pianist. The Second World War doomed them: one – put on Nazi epaulets and become a murderer, and the other – to get the stigma of a ‘subhuman’ and be killed. Their paths crossed in the burning...
