Letter To The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

There were a few points in this book that taught me about life and how crazy it can be sometimes. The photographer named Fulgencio was very afraid of hitch hiking to Mexico City with a stranger, especially with all of us expensive equipment. On the ride, Fulgencio is so paranoid that the guy is going to kill him, he grabs a machete out of the back of the truck. In doing so he gets kicked out of the car and loses all of his photography equipment anyways. This taught me that we need to trust each other more, Just because there are a few crazy people in the world, we shouldn't let them give us all a bad name. I mean, the guy picked Fulgencio up when he was in desperate need of a car, and gives him a ride. He should have been thankful, not picked up a machete and threaten the guy. Another thing this book taught me was that just because your sister doesn't want your kid anymore because she

Standing up for what is right is one theme that is shown numerous times as the book progresses. As you are reading the novel, you see several characters stand up for what they think is right. The Hubermann family decides to help a Jewish man hide from the soldiers by letting him live in their basement. If the family were to get caught they would be in major trouble for hiding a Jewish man. Hans Hubermann also gives an old man (that is too weak to walk) a slice of bread while the Jews walk to the concentration camp. Right after Hans gets whipped by a soldier and starts to regret what he has done. Even though he regrets what he has done, he did it because he cared for everyone even if they were Jewish. Children like Rudy Steiner and Liesel Meminger pass slices of bread out to some of the jews walking by. They get caught and chased into the woods by soldiers. When children were living in this time period, they would have to grow up really fast because of what was happening around them. This shows children that they can do things to help people that truly do need

These teens have similar and different traits. Each of them lived together and became closer. They also had a different thing to study and learn about. The teens were good friends, Jews, lived in the Annex, and are all dead. Their differences were there genders, age, and parent’s favorite. These similarities and differences helps people understand more about the

The story is a documentary but in a cartoon, comic type of way and is like an adventure that makes you just reflect about your life and back then. LIfe was a struggle to survive during the war if you were a Jew for they would hunt you down. Also it just reflects on feeling of how you would feel if you lost your family and all you had, even if you were rich and wealthy you would be treated like less than a human. The book leaves you thinking on many concepts and it's true how could a human be treated as less just because of your religion.

I choose this book because anytime I have to read a nonfiction book, the only nonfiction books I can read and enjoy reading the book are about Holocaust for some reason. I’m not sure why though. I got it at the school library, and my friend Elaina recommend me to read this book. The title appealed to me because it

More than the overt message about the power of words, it’s Liesel’s confrontation with horrifying cruelty and her discovery of kindness in unexpected places that tell the heartbreaking truth.” (1) I do not agree with statement about too much commentary, I believe the commentary gives a perfect amount of insight into Liesel’s backstory, as well as Death’s past in his morbid business. As well as with the too much switching from past to present time, the switching is from Liesel’s current memory to her memory before the Hubermann family, and Max’s life before and after he had to run from the Nazis. I do feel like there is a lot of point of view switching between characters and at times that can get a bit confusing. However, the characters are spectacular and the message comes across loud and clear as you progress in Liesel’s life and her adventures as a book thief. It’s a book that deals with the reality of the life that people had to face during Nazi Germany, but in an entertaining way that’s appealing to the young adult audience. Some World War II books can get extremely boring, with little high points in the plot. But young adults can almost relate to Liesel, she has different aspects that appeal to all audiences.

Going against what your parents tell you to do is scary, but imagine going against Hitler and his prestigious regime. In the book, The Boy Who Dared, it is 1933 in Germany. Helmuth Huebner is an eight year old german boy who was at first caught up in the hype of the Nazi Regime, but soon realized it is not how it seems to be. In 1938 Helmuth is 13 years old. This is when his viewpoint on the Nazi regime starts to take a turn in the opposite direction. He is scolded by his middle school teacher for disrespecting the Nazi flag. Later that night, he is scolded by his brother-in-law, who is a Nazi officer, for not writing his paper on how great the Nazis are. This makes him realize the Nazi are up to something else other than trying to save the country from inflation and starvation. His life continues to go downhill from this day on. The characters, events, and theme of the story make this a good book for people to understand how unfair life was back then and that history should never be repeated.

It is scary when you don’t know anybody and have to try to make new friends. Many of your young childhood friends will stay with you for a lifetime. Today, I am still friends with many of my oldest friends. They have become like family. I want to say that this novel is a great way for people to see how somebody from a diverse population lives. It is a great book from the view of somebody living a completely different life than I have lived. I think it was very well written and is easy to read. This makes it a great teaching tool for children of younger age groups or college students as well. I read this entire book at one sitting because it kept my interest the entire time. I couldn’t wait to see what

The last thing that really appeals to me that connects to the theme is the whole holocaust and the prisoners and how they actually get explained in this story a little but because this is not all about the holocaust but it is but what really appealed to me is how they explained how they helped each other but not for worthy cause for their end so they could pass on and be in a probable better life. The Jewish arrivals

Twelve-year-old Hannah Stern, is a Jewish girl from New Rochelle, NY. What started out as a normal traditional dinner called Seder, became an adventure of humiliation, survival, death, and a new found appreciation for her family and heritage. Hannah, during Seder dinner, was told to answer the door to see if someone was coming. When she opened the door she was suddenly transported back in time—to Poland in 1942. Her confusion grows deeper as she inhabits the life of Chaya Abramowicz. Not understanding if this is a dream, or if she is Hannah or Chaya, she and her new friends and family are then taken by the Nazis. The book details the horrific acts that happened at the concentration camps during WW2, and the message of never forgetting what

This book could show how life was during the holocaust and that kids had to go through with the struggles as well. Misha has a lot of adventures in this book and ends up in America where he can live his life and be happy. Even though

Yeah, it’s hardly gone unnoticed, hasn’t it? I think that what the Nazis did was absolutely terrible and will hopefully never be repeated. I really do understand why people get upset when I describe the Nazis as human beings, but that’s what they are: human beings. I wanted this novel to be as realistic as possible. This novel is a manual for understanding the process of resistance, not a political

The book I’m reading is Night by Elie Wiesel. This book took place back in the Nazi days when Adolf Hitler was the ruler. The Nazi killed and punished the Jews for not obeying the rules or not believing in what Adolf Hitler believed in. Elie Wiesel was a regular young boy who wasn’t going for bad. He lived a normal childhood life until the Nazis started capturing the Jews and killing them. He was a young boy so he didn’t know what was going on at that moment.

I think that it’s an utterly heartbreaking story that Middle Schools and High Schools should have in their library. I don’t think you should ban this book in our library because I don’t think we should be restricting the message of the story from students because it’s “disturbing” or

After reading this book, I feel as though I need to work even harder to remember the tragedy of the past and maintain my individuality to keep events like the Holocaust from ever happening again. What I liked most about The Wave is that the author did not seem to dramatise the true story of this experiment too much, and the characters’ actions were very believable. I also was impressed by how the author could engage me deeply in a book that was so short, at one-hundred and thirty-eight pages. Although I really enjoyed reading this, one aspect I did not like was how there were so many characters to keep track of. I was sometimes confused while reading this book because there were some names of characters I did not recognize, so I had to turn back and find where they were mentioned. Overall, I highly recommend The Wave, as it is a well-written book that shows how easily people, in this case high-school students, can be manipulated when they are given orders and structure from a superior, and I think the author highlights the parallels from Mr. Ross’s experiment to the terror and lack of idiosyncrasy in Nazi