Blog 5: The Man Who Was Almost a Man

1. it is hard to say who is narrating after reading the first paragraph, it could be Dave but it also could be the writer talking. the story seems to be told from two points of view first and third. it is told by a person with bad grammar most likely from the south. 

2. he asked her by showing her the catalogue. she doesn't want him to have one, and gets angry. she says he has gone crazy. she lets him get it, but for his dad.

3. dave was scared when he told the truth. he was stuttering and was terrified and was crying. the crowd wanted to know where he got the gun. they wanted to know why he shot the mule. the crowed ended up laughing.

4. i think that the gun train is a symbol of his rocky path to become a man. It could also represent his death. the train could be taking him away, away from everything, away from life

5. i dont think society would be any better without people like dave. sure it would be safer, but he did not mean to put anyone in harm, without those clueless people we would not learn our lessons of what is write. they should not celebrate his departure. 

Blog 4: Lamb to the Slaughter

i thought the end of the story was kind of funny in a messed up way. it was ironic that the detectives new that the weapon has to be somewhere in the house, and that it is probably right in front of their noses, while they are eating the lamb. the detectives were very ignorant, it was funny. They didn't suspect that she could kill him.

 she got away with the crime very easily. she would not be able to get away with this now. technology has advanced and they would have been able to figure it out. women were looked at as fragile then, they would never suspect that they committed a crime, now women are considered relatively equal to men, and are thought of capable to commit a crime. this situation would be handled differently now.    

Blog 3: GAC & Cage Reading

the reading was very interesting. It was sad to read about the sister who was forced to whip her sister, but it was good that she did so she could do it genteelly instead of a Nazi doing it aggressively. I found it interesting and inspiring how extravagant the little pencil seemed to them. It was nice to see that they cared about the well being of the girls when they summoned one to be a doctor. i thought it was very inspirational when they kept trying to find Riva a doctor. it was sad to hear how Riva was floundering about to get to the doctor. It made me sick hat the normal people who weren't Nazis refused to give her medical help. I was really happy when they finally found one.

Blog 2: Holocaust Dictionary

I was surprised about Eichmann. i have been learning about the Holocaust since i was little and i never heard of him. i always thought Hitler was the brain and face of the Holocaust, i was surprised to learn that he was the face not the brain. i was astonished to find out that another man was not influenced by hitler but was as cold hearted as him. He designed the concentration camps. he was the brain of the Holocaust and i did not know he existed. He is truly a heartless man to be able to think of the way work and death camps should be built is heartless. without his designs things most likely wouldn't have worked as efficiently and less deaths probably would have occurred. 

Blog 1: Part I Reflection

A part that was interesting to me was chapter 21 pages 1122-126. i thought it was very nice how Riva allowed people to stay in her cellar to hide from the Nazis. they where trying to rick them but everyone stuck together to hide and stay safe. i think it showed how everyone thought of each other as family. it also showed how responsible Riva is. she had to take care of her brothers and was still trying to help everyone else at the risk of her families lives.    

News Report on Chapter Four

It is April of 1940 and things are just getting stated in Lodz, Poland. The Jews are cracking we have made our way in and are on the track if getting rid of them. The marches are going well and no one dares disobey the solders. They are first getting rid of the men they are strong and need to be taken care of immediately. A solder killed one man when he was helping a pregnant lady up. 

One kid wouldn't respond to a solder, it turns out he was a deaf mute they speared his life for now. the Jewish people worked as a team to have the Nazis recognize that he was disabled. they sent whispers through the line till it got to the solder that he had this disability. they really showed unity with this action. little kids marched scared as they saw people being killed. the event was finally over when they separated  the men from the women and children and were then taken. the women and children where free to go. 

Blog 15: Holocaust Topics and The Cage

the Jewish holocaust: it was  a time in Europe when Hitler killed Jewish people. he blamed them for the depression. he was determined to get ride of the whole Jewish population along with his Nazi party. he killed 6 million Jewish people. he killed them in gas chambers and then burned them in ovens which were located in consternation camps.   

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the Nazi party 

- it is Hitlers followers

- socialist 

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Ruth Minsky sender

- is an Aurthur who wrote 3 books

- is a holocaust survivor

- was sent to Auschwitz and was separated from her family

-the cage was published 1987

- 7 brothers and sisters

- was liberated in Mittlesteine  

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Auschwitz, mittelsteine, grafenort 

Auschwitz: was the largest consternation camp. It was located in Poland. Named after a near by town Oswiecim.

Mittelsteine: it was a consternation camp   

Granfenort: was a consternation camp located in the center of Switzerland

info from wikipidiea 

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personal memoir

- it is a book of memories