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Aileen KlassenMr. BarringtonEnglish Honours 11April 10th, 2019This is a photograph is of a soldier from eastern Germany jumping over to the west side of Germany during the cold war. In the photograph, you can see the barbed wire that separates the two sides of Berlin. With the Berlin wall, there were many families whom were separated, and some people wanted to escape to the west side to meet their families on the capitalist side. You can see there are people in the background on the other side who are watching as well as another photographer taking a picture of the same soldier/guard jumping over. Also, in the top corner, you can see part of a French sign that tells you that you will be leaving the French sector. I think this photograph also symbolizes the “freedom” that people felt to be living on the capitalist side compared to the communist side. Leap Into FreedomI hear the criesOn the other side,They’re calling to me,Calling my nameI look over to my fellow guards,They’re patrolling just like me:On the East SideBut I crave the freedom on the West While the Capitalists call, I cannot fall My family all on the East, My comrades all on the East,If I were to fail,I would be the Stasi’s next feastI exhale the smoke from my cigaretteAnd the plumes float around my headLike my thoughts are trying to whisk me away That barricade me from my reasonsI hear the calls,I hear them As the crowd gathers, I see my escape, The photographers ready, There is no room for mistakeI look at my rifleUnloaded and light, It’s going to help me take flightWith a flip of my cigarette,I dash away, My hopes to see another free day. I throw up my legs and hear the shutter:Of the cameras of photographers marking my sight. With a clatter of my rifle on the ground,I rush for the car that waits,The Western police take me awayLike robbers in a getaway vanI am free from the Eastern State. My Leap into Freedom.The researched on the poem helped me get an understanding on what people were thinking at the time and how the tension between East and West Berlin was intense. With families and friends who were separated, people’s opinions drastically changed on people who would try to escape from the East to the West. People who were left behind in the East had a sense of betrayal from their family that left without them. I tried to capture the emotion with the struggle of thinking about jumping over while having people on the other side trying to convince you. I wanted to use imagery more so that the reader could see the struggle of thoughts and the stress that they would feel before making the big decision to jump. I also used a simile/oxymoron, “The Western police take me away / like robbers in a getaway van” to portray the two sides of Berlin when the soldier gets taken away. He’s using his freedom for good, but everyone who was left on the East felt like they were betrayed since he just left without a notice and was the cause for the East German side to decide to want to build a full concrete wall to avoid having more people going over to the West side. Whereas on the West side, it would seem like he’s being freed from the communist government. Works CitedLeibing, Peter. “Leap Into Freedom” 15 Aug. 1961.Ross, Hannah. “Leap of Freedom|Picture This.” Picture This Leap of Freedom Comments, 28 Jan. 2016, sites.psu.edu/hannahirossblog/2016/01/28/leap-of-freedom/. Accessed 11 Apr. 2019.TIME. “Leap into Freedom | 100 Photographs | The Most Influential Images of All Time.” Time, Time, 100photos.photos/peter-leibing-leap-into-freedon. Accessed 11 Apr. 2019.Vintage Everyday. “Leap Into Freedom: East German Soldier Escaping the Border, And the Story Behind One of the Most Famous Photographs of the Cold War Era.” Leap Into Freedom: East German Soldier Escaping the Border, And the Story Behind One of the Most Famous Photographs of the Cold War Era ~, 19 Sept. 2016, vintag.es/2016/09/leap-into-freedom-east-german-soldier.html. Accessed 11 Apr. 2019. ................
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