Upon The Goat

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Recommended: Effects of war on family

For the book project, I read “Upon the Head of the Goat” by Aranka Siegal. This story was about a 6 member, Jewish family that lived in Hungary and fought as much as they could against the war, even when going to the Ghetto. My overall opinion of the story was that Piri and her sisters, along with her brother, mother and father took a lot of risks trying to stay alive and be interpreted as a “normal” family. When Piri’s oldest sister, Lilli, and her husband Lajos got taken away from the family for being Jewish, Piri and her mother didn’t know what to do, but her mother still did her best to monitor Lilli by going on a train to find her and make sure her daughter was okay when she was sick. Aside from all of the chaos going on outside, Piri’s mother runs out of milk to drink and to use in her food that she bakes and …show more content…

I really adore this type of writing because you’re put into someone else’s perspective who is completely different from you and it helps with creating an opinion about the story, especially when it has a topic as serious as the Holocaust. There has also been really high points of the story and really low points of the story. For example, when Ferenc rode in on his horse to Babi’s property, he was able to connect with Piri, Roszi, and Babi by delivering letters or updating them with what’s happening in other countries. Another high point is when Piri’s mother buys the goat to help their family survive in the condition they were in. A low point of the story is when Lilli, Lajos, and their daughter got taken away from her family. It was unexpected, especially at that point in the book. Another low point of the story is when they were all taken away to the Ghetto and where Babi was put into an infirmary since she was sick. However, this story was written very well and in a way, took me through a Jewish family’s story on surviving the

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