Ethical Loneliness is a book written by Jill Stauffer, who was inspired by Jean Amery, a German Jew who was part of the Holocaust. This book talks about ethical loneliness and how it feels, not in a simple way, but in a way that you might have experienced in person. The story talks about Jean Amery, who was Jewish and part of the Holocaust; he experienced ethical loneliness, which is the experience of being violated, and all the trauma of Germans killing Jewish people. No one was doing anything, meaning people abandoned you, and they won’t help you.
This story made me realize I had experienced loneliness when I’m with a group of people; I'm just there feeling lonely while everyone is talking, which makes me feel like this only happens to me many times. I have talked to many people about loneliness, and they have told me many things about it. I find it interesting to hear people's experiences; many people feel like they have nobody to talk to, no one to rely on, and that’s when people get desperate and start talking to anyone and get attached easily. I went through this during my freshman year as I was depressed about everyone and felt alone and like no one liked me or even wanted me there. That’s a different type of loneliness, though.
I agree with Jill Stauffer that loneliness is like an illness and affects the human body, including the mind. I like the fact that she names all the effects of Ethical Loneliness, for example, trauma. Intensification: Survivors relive their trauma when their experiences are ignored, depression and anxiety, and loss of trust. When I went through it, my mind was just everywhere, and I felt exhausted, not eating, and I just burst out crying, and my body was just sore from everything. I had never felt like that in my life. I truly just wanted to lie down and slumber forever.
This experience was like spikes all over my body. As I was playing soccer while studying for school, the experience was just painful. I don’t want people to ever experience this: being sore every day while failing school and having no one to talk to about their experience.
There are different types of being alone, and sometimes it can be healthy; it just depends.
Solitude can help you be less stressed and calmer, so being alone is not always bad. You need time for yourself, including reducing stress, reflecting on actions, and fostering personal growth.
This book interests me even though, as a kid, I was never interested in reading books. This book interests me because it has something in common with being traumatic. Learning about ethical loneliness is interesting because if you have something in common, then you feel like the spark in the self and start feeling happy that you’re not alone and not abandoned by people.
This Book of Ethical Loneliness, by Jean Amery, is a really interesting book, talking about the concept of ethical loneliness. This book inspired me to write an essay about it, as I always like to know why people are abandoned by humanity because of their ethnicity or their way of living, or a way of their religion, or how they were born into a different family. I structured my essay by first introducing the book, and then I started to compare it to my life, making the person feel comfortable as they are reading a story of my life, and they start to compare my life and the book to theirs. Many themes I am interested in are about human emotions or events that happened and how the victims felt. Ms. Ntoso also inspired me to write about my life, as well as another teacher named Ms. Smith, who told us to write about our lives in deep essays, which made me feel inspired to write more. I used to dislike writing, as I never really had anything to write, and I couldn't even speak properly due to my stuttering, but now I have improved so much, which makes me like English more and feel more confident due to the teacher's support.