Introduction
Anna Funder’s Stasiland is a text that narrates about a group of people who struggled against the East German government, and those that become members of the Stasi, the regime’s secret police. The story revealed how the citizens who were against the Stasi system were automatically regarded as state enemies. They become the subject of scrutiny and pressure as their moves is watched for the even a minor suspicion of disobedience. In Stasiland, the author presented the different experiences of East German citizens, all of whom shared their first-hand stories that depicted how they suffered from the ...
