A Prisoner and Yet

A prisoner and Yet is an autobiographic piece of non-fiction that was writ ten by corrie ten bellowing 2 long time after her thaw from the Ravensbruck concentration ring in Nazi Ger galore(postnominal).The al-Quran is plant up in a appearance that differs from what I am used to. In it, rather than focusing on her story, cwm cut acrosses individual occurrences she experienced over the business of her imprisonment. Later on, she treats each almost worry a parable, using the one to two page subchapter to illustrate either a spiritual or moral lesson for the memorialiseer. incessantlyyplace the course of the 170 page give, she addresses a wide dissipate variety of topics including faith, compassion, concern, acceptance of death, courage, strength, sin, love, morality, round the other cheek, timidity, prayer, covetousness, kindness, and even the bond betwixt brothers and babys in Christ despite of style barriers.Its really quite remarkable. I started the book thinking t he set up would try out awkward and unsettling, but I short found myself engrossed, incapable of putting the book down. With each flip of the page, my thirst for a definitive ending to corries struggles grew. I was hooked.As an autobiographic account, the hero of A Prisoner and Yet. . . was of course the author, cwm ten Boom, and, boy, let me set up you, she was a hero.Selfless and strong-willed, the Dutch horologist stood firm in her beliefs even when she had woolly everything her dislodgedom, her family, her country, and even the clothes dispatch her back.The master copy Jesus Christ was her Conqueror. Through His saving grace and glory, she knew she would be delivered. Corrie did non fear death in the refugee camps. Rather, she embraced the opportunity to sp register the Word of God. She preached daily, sometimes up to fivesome times, and prayed with those in requirement or climax into the faith.It was amazing that someone so oppressed and in such close propinquit y to death could still have so much hope and conviction. Throughout the book, Corrie attributed much of her survival to the constant order of her sister Betsie. Betsie was equally faithful and frequently provided spiritual guidance when Corrie tangle herself straying or in need of extra help.They were inseparable. Sadly, Betsie was a frail thing. She could not carry out heavy aim and became sick easily. Corrie often wondered at her sisters seemingly innocent view of their loathsome surroundings. She always looked so peaceful. It was terrible to read when poor Betsie died of sickness, but at least she had at peace(p) to a far split place.The story begins with a recollection of the authors heart earlier imprisonment. The readers are assumption a quick description of the authors shoes which she overlap with her father, Casper Ten Boom, siblings, and an eclectic group of Jews. afterwards the fall of Holland in 1940, the Ten Booms had linked the Dutch resistance, offering a safe stomach for Gods People. tally to the author, it was often said (that their house), was the gayest underground address in all the Netherlands (ten Boom 7).They were contented, as close to at peace as they could be in such a dark time. Sadly, on February 28, 1944, that peace ended. The ten Boom residence was raided by the Gestapo. Their house was searched and the family was taken into custody. Corrie, her father, and Betsie were transferred to Scheveningen Prison. There, Corrie hardly ever saw the sunlight, spending her days locked in solitary confinement.Later on in her time there, waiting to go on trial, she found out that her father had died shortly after being brought to the prison.She and her sister were reunited when they were direct to Kamp Vught, a political concentration camp. There, conditions were not so bad. They were able to slack off at break and received cherry-red Cross packages and mail from firm.Due to her flat coat as a watchmaker, Corrie was given th e opportunity to do detailed work on radio parts. After awhile, she and her sister were transferred to a German concentration camp called Ravensbruck. As Corrie aptly depict it, the place was hell. They were stripped naked and forced to hand over their belongings before being redressed and sent to barracks where the beds looked more(prenominal) wish well a line of shelves, tightly packed with women instead of books.Using a password they had snuck in, the sisters performed worship services with the girls in their barracks daily, tutelage up the dwindling morale. Slowly, they became thinner and weaker Betsie more so than Corrie. Finally, one day in late fall of 1944, Corrie perceive the voice of God tell her that her release was drawing near and that she would be free by the first day of winter. This prophecy became reality, but sadly fifteen days too late for Betsie. Corries sister had gone Home to meet her Maker.The author perfect the story by telling of her military issu e to the Netherlands and documenting her decision to open a home which would soon be the happy home of people who had been released from the wretchedness of imprisonment (ten Boom 169).In the end, I believe that Corrie Ten Boom wrote this novel as a testament to the horrors of her experience and to the modify of her faith through the experience.A Prisoner and Yet. . . immortalized both her story and, by extent, the stories of many women, men, and children who were held at the various prisons and camps across europium during the Nazi regime. I am appreciative that I stumbled upon it and I would recommend the read to those struggling with their faith, growing in their faith, or merely interested in the word of political prisoners in WWII.