Lydia Van Matre 21 7ll- Truman project
My book was A Night Divided “A night divided” by Jennifer a. Nielsen. The plot of this story is about Gerta Greta and her family who live in Berlin and her family is separated by the Berlin wall. In this story they try to reunite, They do this with by the help of Gerta’s older brother Fritz, they try to find a way to get to their there family again.
I think the three main characters in this story are, Gerta whose perspective this is told from. She is about my age the age of me, 12-13, and she is left in east Berlin with her brother and mother. She is a very strong character and is very brave. Even though she is young she can still do a lot and helps escape the Berlin wall along with help. Fritz, who is Gerta’s older brother is also a strong character who isn’t afraid to fight for what’s right and will not listen to Sstasti and helps escape with Gerta. Mama, Fritz and Gerta’s Gertas mother. Mama is a very kind character but she is very sensitive and doesn’t agree with, at first the plan to eEscape to the west.
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Her father and brother Dominic are in the west, they left the night before the wall came up to find a safe way to leave but end up without the rest of their family. The resolution is that in the end they meet again by both tunneling under the wall too get to each other. The second conflict in this story is that while Fritz and Greta are trying to get to the rest of their family they have to make up excuses and lie to the Grenzers so that they don’t get caught if they do they could go to jail or die and never get to their family. They struggle with this a lot throughout the story while tunneling and are very scared for their lives but they are determined to get the
The section in the novel night that painted a dark and angry picture of human nature is when the Jews were fleeing Buna and hundreds of them were packed in a roofless cattle car. The Jews were only provided with a blanket that soon became soaked by the snowfall. They spent days in the bitter cold temperatures and all they ate was snow. For these reasons, many suffered and died. When they stopped in German towns, the people stared at that cattle cars filled with soulless bodies. “They would stop and look at [the Jews] without surprise.” It was a regular occasion for the German people to see suffering Jews and not feel pity. The dark and angry picture of human nature was when a German worker “took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it
The protagonists are Rudi Kaplan; a Jewish Christian with a Swedish appearance as his mother was Swedish. Jakob Kaplan, Rudi’s father, who was faithful, kind and very helpful in many ways. Rudi’s best friend, Salek Serdusek, his father, Eryk, and Salek’s mother, Sara were the Kaplans closes friends. Ingrid, was a little girl that doesn’t speak, and who Rudi named after his mother. There’s also Oscar, a resistance fighter who was brave, slightly prideful and warm-hearted. The last few protagonists are the Kaminsky family, who lived in an apartment building, below the Kaplans, Anna, who is patient, brave and hygienic, and Josef. The two main antagonists are Frank and Mende who are both German soldiers.
My book The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen is about a girl named Hannah Stern who is a young Jewish girl living in New Rochelle, NY. She and her family, including her parents and younger brother Aaron, are in a Seder at her grandparents' home. Hannah does not want to be in the seder. She is tired of hearing about the past and is uncomfortable listening to her Grandpa Will talk about his experiences in the concentration camp. " We are all monsters, because we are letting it happen. "
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old, she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers, Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father. The Holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a “ Boys School” in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her father was taken away shortly after the Russians had moved out and the Germans began to occupy Buczacz.
The book, Night, by Eliezer (Elie) Wiesel, entails the story of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps all around Europe. Around the middle of the 20th century in the early 1940s, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army traveled around Europe in an effort to exterminate the Jewish population. As they went to through different countries in order to enforce this policy, Nazi officers sent every Jewish person they found to a concentration camp. Often called death camps, the main purpose was to dispose of people through intense work hours and terrible living conditions. Wiesel writes about his journey from a normal, happy life to a horrifying environment surrounded by death in the Nazi concentration camps. Night is an amazingly
The book Night is about the holocaust as experienced by Elie Weisel from inside the concentration camps. During World War II millions of innocent Jews were taken from their homes to concentration camps, resulting in the deaths of 6 million people. There were many methods of survival for the prisoners of the holocaust during World War II. In the book Night, there were three main modes of survival, faith, family, and food. From the examples in the book Night, faith proved to be the most successful in helping people survive the holocaust.
Write-up: Like all the daughters of Mama Elena, Gertrudis despised her very oppressive mother. She escapes her mother by running off with a rebel soldier, Juan Trevino due to a reaction of Tita's Quail in Rose Petal Sauce recipe.
The significance of night throughout the novel Night by Elie Wiesel shows a poignant view into the daily life of Jews throughout the concentration camps. Eliezer describes each day as if there was not any sunshine to give them hope of a new day. He used the night to symbolize the darkness and eeriness that were brought upon every Jew who continued to survive each day in the concentration camps. However, night was used as an escape from the torture Eliezer and his father had to endure from the Kapos who controlled their barracks. Nevertheless, night plays a developmental role of Elie throughout he novel.
In my opinion the internal conflict faced by the narrator is Elie Wiesel´s struggle with his religion when he arrived at the camp. The repetition of ¨never shall I forget¨ is important because he's never going to be able to forget leaving his mother and sisters, and seeing the small children being burned to death when they hadńt done anything wrong, and having to decide wether he's going to take his own life or not. Heĺl never forget the horrors of the holocaust. Its important to remember the holocaust because innocent lives were lost for no reason other than the nazis trying to find the better race when the only race in my opinion should be the human race, and if we forget this then it would probably be pretty easy for another genocide to
With the amount of anti-Semitic activity in Germany, no Jew was safe and Helen realized this quickly. In order to protect her child he had to give her to family to keep her safe. “There we said goodbye as casually as possible and gave these strangers our child.” After this moment, Helen’s fight for survival to see her child once again. Finding a place to hide became very difficult as no one wanted to host a Jewish family due to the fear of the Nazis finding out. “People were understandably nervous and frightened, so the only solution was to find another hiding place.”
Elli talks about daily life in her neighborhood. Her mother does not show any compassion for her. When Elli complains of this, her mother brings up excuses that are unconvincing. Elli believes her mother does not care for her and that her brother is the favorite. Hilter’s reoccurring radio broadcast give nightmares to Elli, whos family is Jewish. The nights when the Hungarian military police would come and stir trouble did not provide anymore comfort for Elli. One night, her brother, Bubi, comes home with news that Germany invaded Budapest, the town where he goes to school. But the next morning, there is no news in the headlines. The father sends him back to school. He learns the next day that a neighbor’s son who goes to school with Bubi has said the same. The day after, the newspapers scream the news of the invasion. Bubi arrives home, and the terror begins.
erased from his mind. Thankfully the oldest child knew much more than the father did. She could remember everything, she had an incredible memory. She helped out her younger sibling by telling her stories of the eighties. She knew a lot. She was a very smart girl who was just a year or so older than the younger child. She also knew political stuff that happened during the eighties. Like when she got a piece of the Berlin Wall that was destroyed back in the eighties. The younger child did not believe this was true. On the other hand the father was unaware of this. He was confused, he couldn't remember when his own child had visited the Berlin Wall. The older sister was amazed by his father's poor memory. She brought down a piece of the Berlin Wall from her bedroom.
Diction Analysis: The diction in this quote sets the tone for the rest of the passage ahead because it shows how weak Elie and his family are compared to the Nazi’s. Repetition in this quote has a deeper meaning then some may first take it. The repetition of “first” shows in this shows a sign of internal defeat. Elie says “it was the first time” he had ever seen his father cry. By stating not only he saw his father cry but it was also the first time in Elie’s 14 years, shows how weak his father felt at this point. He continues on to say he “never thought it was possible” which shows how he saw his father as this strong, undefeatable man but now he is seeing him at his lowest point which bring Elie to the realization of how bad everything that's
As humans we are constantly changing and adapting to fit our environment. Humans also can have mood changes due to age, rough times or any other driving force. In the book “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie goes through many changes because of what he experiences. Elie had to change his ways in order to survive and keep his loved ones by his side. Over the course of the book, Elie changed the way he acted towards people, loved ones, and things he knew to be true.
Sophie was a Polish women and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn about her through her telling of her experiences, for instance, the murder of her husband and her father. We also come to learn of the dreadful decision she was faced with upon entering the concentration camp, where she was instructed to choose which one of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of her short lived experience as a stenographer for a man by the name of Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to have her son transferred to the Lebensborn program so that he may have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt was unsuccessful and she was returned back to t...