“Never hate, dislike if you must, but never use hate!” Dr. Eva Olsson. I think she is right in so many ways, some people hate anything that’s green and crunchy, a.k.a. vegetables. Some people hate their new hockey stick or their house because it’s just boring. I think that’s very right, why hate something when you can just ignore it. You never need to hate because hate started almost every war that has ever went on in the world and has killed over 202 295 000 people died in the most major wars and rebellions in the world, including the 1st and 2nd World Wars, the Korean and Vietnam Wars and the An Shi Rebellion.
But Eva Olsson’s fantastic, moving speech did not only tell us to use the word hate, but it was very emotional too, telling about her ride to Auschwitz-Birkenau in small boxcars with over 100 people in just one. How her mother, grandmother and almost the rest of her family was ordered left, going only to find the gas chambers. Only Eva, her youngest sister, one of her brothers and her father made it to the right and were turned into slave labours. But later her father and brother died, only leaving Dr. Eva and her sister alive. That’s when she said her second message, “Hug your family today, because tomorrow you many not.” Some kids go their whole time being a teenager not hugging their parents because they did not give you a brand new Xbox 360 or iPhone or iPod Touch. She didn’t get to hug her parents for the last time. She just watched her being sent to the left while she walked away from death.
In conclusion, I found to very important messages in her speech that I will try to do today. I have dared my family to never say the word hate in the month of November and December, and hopefully it will rub off into the hands of my class, grade, school, wherever. And today I will go home and hug my parents and tell them I love them.
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