Year 12: Themes and Ideas we will focus on.

We have already discussed the different kinds of Walls that Funder presents:

The WALL

1) Physical
2) Psychological
3) Ideological

and also the central ideas of MEMORY and FORGETTING

" Memory like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also what it reveals." (p216)

* memory is both personal and collective

*memory is political

*memory is malleable


Furthermore

TRUST

* trust in the state

* trust in others

* trust in ones capabilities

COURAGE

* resilience

* resistance

VICTIMS and PERPETRATORS

* who were the true victims of the regime and why?
* who were the perpetrators?
* who were both?