PEOPLE
A Very Long Metaphor for WWII
Created and Illustrated by
Madison Howard
There are three types of people in our world:
Small people, big people, and people in
between (medium people). Each of these kinds
of people sport different traits.
Small people are innocent. Small people aren’t
very strong or intimidating, and don’t have
much power. Small people don’t get a say in
many things in the big, big world.
Big people are the toughest, and more often
than not, the leaders. They’re big enough to tell
the smaller people (and some medium-sized
people) what to do and how to do it, even if
what they say is wrong.
Finally, medium-sized people are a mix inbetween of big and small. The role they play in
the world depends on how they act; some big
people end up doing great, wonderful things,
and some end up doing small things.
This story is about all three of these folks. The
story, in reality, was about a war that spread
over the entire world.
The story started because some big people
made some even bigger mistakes.
Surprisingly enough, this wasn’t the first world
war that these people had. Not too long ago, all
of these people fought because they didn’t
agree with each other anymore, and broke very
important promises.
After this war ended, a specific group of small
and medium people were blamed as the cause
of the war, since they had followed a big person
and caused a lot of damage.
The big people that decided the blame told
them that they had to give up almost everything
they had! The group of small people had no
choice – and because they lost the fight, they
became hungry and hopeless.
Then, a big person stood up and said he could
fix everything that had gone wrong. This
person’s name was Adolf Hitler, and he seemed
very nice to the group.
The group had found the answer to their
problems, and eagerly accepted his help. Sure
enough, the group, which was named Nazi
Germany, became happy again.
Meanwhile, something else was happening in
Germany. A group of small people, called Jewish
people, were mistreated very badly by Hitler.
Most of them didn't make it, and those who
did were very unhappy.
Back in the USA, a smaller group of medium
people called women were left in charge of the
jobs that the men couldn't do.
The women cooked and cleaned, but worked
in factories as well; it was tough work, but the
women were tough, too.
In another place, a medium-sized person
named Franklin Roosevelt had taken all of the
small people in his group, called the USA, and
fenced them off from the rest of the world. He
wanted them to be safe, but it didn’t last long.
Soon enough, a group of big people called
Japan attacked Franklin’s group.
Now, Franklin was forced to pay attention to
what was happening outside his fence.
And boy, was the outside world a mess!
Franklin’s group had been giving and loaning to
another medium group, Britain, to help fight the
big group known as Nazi Germany.
But Franklin’s idea of lending weapons and
supplies wasn’t working, and Nazi Germany kept
getting stronger.
After seeing this, and having felt the true
threat of the war upon his group, Franklin led
the USA into battle, alongside Britain and a
group called France, and later on, Russia.
Many battles were waged in this war, and three
of these battles became very important to the
course of the world's history.
The first was called the Battle of Midway. This
is where the USA attacked the big Japan with
planes in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Japan lost, something previously unthinkable.
The USA was victorious!
The second of these three was called D-Day,
and was a battle on the shore of Normandy
beach against the troops of the big man Hitler.
Troops from the USA and Britain groups of
medium people fought very hard, and won!
The final battle was the Fall of Berlin. The Fall of
Berlin was when the big Russia attacked Hitler,
surrounding him and winning easily.
That battle was when Hitler fell, and no longer
had power over the small people of Germany.
People in the USA rejoiced. Nazi Germany had
been defeated, and that meant they could focus
on toppling the group Japan for good.
As punishment for Japan's attack against them,
the USA made two big bombs, and dropped
them on two cities in Japan, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The bombs hurt between 60,000 and
80,000 small and medium people, and Japan
decided to give up on fighting.
One thing they didn't realize, though, was just
how much damage the bomb had done to poor
Japan. Small and medium people had been very
hurt, and suffered unimaginably, all because
their big person had made some bad choices.
Then, to add on to the damage, some USA small
people were put into work camps by the USA…
…only because their family had come
from Japan.
The war was over. Lots of small and medium
people had gotten hurt, and it was very sad.
However, the small and medium people of the
USA and Britain had won! The big people didn't
win this time; it wasn’t their turn anymore!
THE END