In Jewish studies, we were tasked with creating Herzl’s personal journey through three entries and a visual Representation. First, you can look at my visual Representation
Journey entries one
Dear Journal;
I have been diagnosed with a severe heart attack. The doctors have told me I must rest. But I mustn’t stop. This is too important to me. I must finish pushing the Zionist cause so when I lie in the ground, my work will be complete and the Jewish people will have a piece of land where they shall not be persecuted and finally be accepted. To find such land must be my utmost important task, while I still stand atop this earth.
I failed to acquire the charter for Palestine from Turkey. From this, I tried to acquire Uganda for the Zionist cause. It was not my failure but those difficult Russians who have ruined it for all Zionists around the world. At such failed summit, I have encountered two kind men who may be able to help me get a new Charter for Palestine, but instead of from Turkey, these fellows would help me get it from England. My doctor says I must rest, but how can I rest from my life’s work. It’s impossible to stop at such an important juncture.
Journal entries two
Dear Journal;
I may have never been able to comprehend how hard it is to get people to agree. The longer it takes to accomplish the goal at hand, the more it pains me to see what is happening to the Jewish people. I started this goal because of the audacity I have had to lay my eyes on. The kick start to the chain reaction of ideas that have flooded my noggin on how I must fix the problem of the Jewish question. As if I were the forefather himself, Moses. Had come from one thing, the Dreyfus Affair. When I started to think of how I could ever fix this. That is when the first idea cracked my cranium, and now that I resee it, the audacity it was underly stupid. That it was to get all the Jewish people to convert to Christianity, after that bad one, I had the best idea done on me, it was to give the jews a land to call their own. Something I have had to lay my eyes upon have brought me back to when I was an insolent child. If I had to switch school because of the bewildering unkindness, because of the culture I was born into.
Journal entries three
Dear Journal;
Today I have had another argument with my darn wife. For some reason, she doesn’t believe in me. The only person who cares for my success is my lovely mother. My wife tells me I work too much and never have time for my children. Of course, retort with a good old I’m trying to create a land for the Jewish people. Alas, my wife doesn’t care of my goal to complete saving the Jewish people. At times, I wish I had never married her. The goal of married women is to get her wealth to help me with the Zion’s cause. I would have never believed that my wife could be so unhelpful. Do not begin to get started on my kids because I don’t even know the age of those kids or what their names are. I will never understand how to get my wife’s help. I suppose she will be useless forever.
Final Reflection
Herzl did a lot of great things, he gave the jews a pacel of freedom. Other than all the great, if you look deeper, Hrezl was not a great person if anything, he was one of the worst husband, father and just a horrible guy. But if I were in Herzl’s position, I don’t think I would have had the same determination if anything, I would have given up at the first roadblock.