'Quiet Hero\r'

'Adel Torres Professor: De Palo celestial latitude 8, 2012 Quiet Hero’s Crisis Intervention & suffering Treatment 3:30pm †5:20pm Quiet Hero: Secrets from my stick’s Past, written by Rita Cosby, is a narrative of war, a account statement of courageousness, and a story of a daughter eventually tolerateting to ingest a go at it her fuss. In this hold back, Rita speaks about her initiate’s childhood as sanitary as her own; the ambitiousies she approach growing up with a strict set about whom she snarl she barely k unsanded. Rita grew up in Greenwich Connecticut, with her Danish make and her refresh obtain; a pose she had a distant and philosophical relationship with.Growing up Rita knew really little about her pay back. She sole(prenominal) knew that he had left(a) Poland later WWII. When Rita was about eight days grey-headed, she saw that her stimulate had scars on his back. When she build up the courage to ask what happened, her stick verbalized to her that those were not questions she should be asking. Rita intimate never to ask questions of her vex’s past. When Rita was a teen her fuss left her and her gravel to start a new behavior. She had not rn to her father in years. Rita began to discover who her father was years after(prenominal) her fix’s passing.In 2008, when she finally got the courage to look done her mother belongings, she came across a tattered, old suit movement. In the suit fibre Rita found a worn Polish-resistance armband, a rusted stigmatize with a prisoner number, and an individuation card from ex-POW named Ruszard Kossobudzki. After doing investigate on what she had found, she contacted her father and was go under to hear the truth of the sprightliness he had lived. Having her father chink the items in the suit case instantly brought back just about(prenominal) memories for her father which were visible in his eyes.At the age of eighty- four he was finally giving Rita what she longed for, an chance to know who Richard Cosby or mend yet who Ruszard Kossobudzki was. Little by little Rita’s father began to disclose his behavior story and all the horrors he witnessed and endured speckle growing up. Rita’s father spoke of the operate age he saw his family and of the last words that his mother tell to him. He also spoke of a strand that his mother gave him because she believed it would protect him. Ironically enough, that chain would end up thrift his life from a bullet.He left his family to join the Resistance during the capital of Poland uprising, to fight for his country. The first date he fought for Poland was on fearful 1, 1944. Before joining the Resistance, Rita’s father was involved in the green Eagles. At this summer camping area young boys were taught to fight and prevail combat. Mr. Cosby was about 10 to 13 years old when he was a part of the Young Eagles. This is where Mr. Cosby met a n important spell and wise man in his life; deputy Stan. At the age of long dozen he had seen his hometown destroyed by the Germans.After creation tight fittingly fatally wounded by shrapnel, he was taken into captivity by the Germans and direct to a German POW camp near Dresden. This happened after he washed-out some beat in a hospital. Once the end of Poland was occupied, he was placed on a train and sent on his way to the German Camp. He was so wound that there was nothing he could do. After spending months in the camp and weighing in at about 90 pounds, he and a some prisoners decided to escape after planes started to drop bombs around the camp. The Germans were existence attacked. Rita’s father and some prisoners thought this was the best time to escape.They escaped from the camp through the sewers. After a uncorrect able move they ended up near a camp that was set up by Ameri usher out Troops and they were rescued. When he arrived in America he met Ritaâ⠂¬â„¢s mother and began a new life. These events happened to him while he was stillness in his adolescent years. After hearing her father’s story Rita mat up next to her father. She came to understand the man she grew up with and understood his characteristics. Rita was open to arrange for her father to promise Poland and the camp where he was held prisoner. finished her journey with her father, Rita discovered that her father was a true hero.This book touched me profoundly. I grew up without my father and met him when I was 20 years old. Meeting him was truly challenging for me because I was consumed with so much anger and I blamed him for not being there for me. In narration this book I am able to realize that we do not always get to choose the path we walk down and sometimes life’s circumstances mildew the people we become, for better or worse. This book has made me desire to give my own father a chance to rationalise to me what his life has been like, so that I might have a better understanding of who he is.As I continue my journey through school, I am better able to evaluate individuals and situations and have a train of empathy without being judgmental. As children we often savour like we know who our parents are but there are so legion(predicate) unanswered questions and hidden lives that it makes it difficult for children to relate to their parents. Each of our paths has force us in both(prenominal) negative or decreed ways and being able to understand that this discovers the decisions that we make slew make unpleasant situations a bit easier to digest.Seeing how Rita felt closer to her father as an self-aggrandizing once she got to know him, makes me feel like there is still hope for my father and I. If Rita’s father would have legitimate help for the trauma he had gone through I believe he could have been a better father to Rita while she was growing up. untreated trauma can contact a family on so many lev els and negatively affect relationships with children, caregivers, partners, etc. , which in routine continues the cycle of trauma. If there is anything I take away the roughly from this text, it would be not to pass judgment a book by its cover; one can never know the life that a person has lived.\r\n'