Imagine this, it's World War Two and you're a young jewish boy living in Poland. Due to what you believe in you are targeted by people who believe you are racially impure. This is what Yanek Gruener had to face. The book is Prisoner B 3087 written by Alan Gratz and based on the true story of Ruth and Jack Gruener. It tells the story about a boy’s survival during World War Two. In it he has to deal with the horrors of being who he is and the unimaginable torture of being in a concentration camp. He managed to survive ten concentration camps. The main character of the story is 10-year-old Yanek Gruener. He is an adolescent Jewish boy living in 1930s Poland during World War Two. Although he sees the very worst of people he still manages
Do you think you could have survived the Holocaust? Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, it is a well written work of fiction based upon true events. The story took place in Poland and was told by the protagonist in the first person. It was written in the first person so the reader can better understand how it was to live in concentration camps and how life as a Jewish boy during the Holocaust. The central conflict in this book, which includes the protagonist, Yanek Gruner, and the antagonists, the Nazis, the Nazis want to eliminate all Jews. Yanek’s goal is to survive until the allies come to free them to save them from the Nazis. The book opens with Yanek talking in the first person.
Intro: This book is about a Jewish boy named Yanek. This gives an inside look of what happened to Jewish people in the 1940s. He had a very hard life in the 6 year time duration he spent in the ghetto and concentration camps.
Protagonists: The main protagonists in the story are Misha, Janina, Uri, and Dr. Kroczak. Misha is an orphan boy about 8 years old, who lives in the streets and steals food. Janina is a jewish girl, about 7 years old, and lives with her family. Uri is a jewish boy who met Misha and helped him until he went to the ghetto. Dr. Kroczak is an older man who owns an orphanage and was later later sent to ghetto.. The relationship between these characters are that Misha and Janina are siblings but not blood or adopted related. Janina’s father offered Misha to go
“Why had I worked so hard to survive if it was always going to end like this? If had known, I wouldn’t have bothered. I would have let them kill me back in the ghetto. It would have been easier that way. All that I had done was for nothing.” Based on a shocking true story, this excerpt shows one of Jakob Gruener’s largest conflicts throughout “Prisoner B-3087” by Alan Gratz. Jakob, a young jewish man from Poland, perseveres many concentration camps and death marches, and seems to vary between the determination to live, or give in to the Nazi brutality and die. The story takes place during World War II, when the jewish people were taken by the Nazi Rich (Rike/Bike) in concentration camps, Jakob being one of the millions of jews taken. Jakob
This is my book report on Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz. The main character in the book is Yanek Gruener, a ten year old boy who gets transferred to numerous concentration camps throughout the book. Some notable minor characters in the book are: Fred, Yanek’s first friend since the nazi invasion began, he was hung to strike fear in the jews that they will end up like him if they did not work; Uncle Moshe, Yanek’s uncle; and Amon Geoth, the camp commandant of Plaszow and killer of Uncle Moshe. There are ten areas in the book that Yanek gets transferred into, they are: the Wieliczka Salt Mine, Trzebinia, Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Dachau, and Plaszow.
Skip Hollandsworth candidly explores the subjects of juvenile crime and sentencing in the electronic long form newspaper article, “The Prisoner”. The purpose of the essay is to inform the reader about juvenile sentencing and to persuade the audience that there are clear problems with aspects of the U.S. prison system. The article is easily accessible to a large audience because it is online. Hollandsworth takes into account that his audience, mostly consisting of Texas Monthly readers, may already have pre-established notions about the topic, so he considers other sides while still supporting his argument. Edwin Debrow, a preteen member of the Crips, committed a murder when he was 12-years old and received a 27-year sentence through the
In the novel The Scarlet Letter Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a supposed holy man, is no more than a mere low life coward that deserves respect from no one. He committed adultery with a member of his own congregation, and lied to and deceived the rest of his flock, but he left the one who got caught take all of the burden.
The concentration camps of the Holocaust were home to countless injustices to humanity. Not only were the prisoners starved to the brink of death, but they were also treated as animals, disciplined through beatings nearly every day. Most would not expect an ill-prepared young boy to survive such conditions. Nevertheless, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Wiesel defies the odds and survives to tell the story. Wiesel considers this survival merely luck, yet luck was not the only factor to come into play: his father had an even greater impact. Prior to their arrival at Auschwitz, Wiesel lacked a close relationship with his rather detached father; however, when faced by grueling concentration camp life, the bond between Wiesel and his father ultimately enables Wiesel’s survival.
Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.
In 1944, World War II was close to over, but not for everyone. Six million Jewish people had been taken from their homes and put to the most dehumanizing work in history by being transported to concentration camps to work 12+ hour shifts. With little to no food, complete segregation, and torturous treatment by sadistic guards, this time of life was a literal hell for these Jews. The SS guards stationed there were so brutal, that the prisoners felt constantly in fear for their lives. In the award winning memoir, Night, written by Elie Wiesel, he narrates his experience as a young Jewish boy during the Holocaust. At the concentration camps, they were separated and put to work, not office work, interminable amounts of forced labor, no mistakes, and if so, shot or beaten to death. The Nazis decimated the Jewish population, and in doing so, exposed Hitler’s true intentions and cruelty. Wiesel discloses the radical changes that the Jews undergo, from normal people, with family and friends, into violent, self-centered crazies who look out for no one else and must fight for
There has been a major discussion recently if a college athlete should earn money while they are in school. Many people think that College athletes , but it is better for college athletes to paid for many reasons. College athletes should be paid because the NCAA is a billion dollar enterprise. Moreover College players should earn revenue because of how much time and effort they spend trying to get better and help their team win. When athletes do well in a sport they bring a great deal of attention to the school. Student athletes aren’t just regular students, they are people who help generate money and market for schools. Even though student -athletes generates tons of money for the school, none of that money ever trickles down to them.
The novel German Boy by Wolfgang Samuel is about his life as a boy from Germany. The book takes place during World War II. Wolfgang goes through this tragic time era with his mother and his sister Ingrid. He is not able to live a normal life of a child such as other children in the world. The characters, settings, and themes make this novel the success it is today because it helps the reader to know what it was like to live during WWII. Wolfgang’s development and experiences further the reader's interest. Going to Berlin and Strasburg from Wolfgang’s hometown Sagan added to the struggles that he faced with moving from place to place to seek safety. Family will always be there to help and no one is safe from war is what Wolfgang learns with his experiences living in this time period.
"On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13, 152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d' Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget” (De Rosnay 60). In the book Sarah’s Key, it begins with a young girl named Sarah Starzinsky, who is dealing with her family being removed by the French police and put into a camp. Before the family left, Sarah puts her brother into a closet and locks him in to where he will not come out until she comes back. However, Sarah and her family did not realize that they were not
Everyone experiences emotional and physiological obstacles in their life. However, these obstacles are incomparable to the magnitude of the obstacles the prisoners of the Holocaust faced every day. In his memoir, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, illustrates the horrors of the concentration camps and their mental tool. Over the course of Night, Wiesel demonstrates, that exposure to an uncaring, hostile world leads to destruction of faith and identity.
Prisoner B-3087 was an intense story about a ten-year old boys will to survive during World War Ⅱ. Throughout the story we are brought through ghettos, concentration camps, death marches, and work camps that are all made up with the intention of wiping out the population of Jews. Each place he ends up is worse than the last they have less food, stricter staff, and harder work. The only way to survive is to work and be invisible because if you stand out you are a threat and you will be killed. Yanek, the ten-year old boy who tells this story is surrounded by death. His entire family is wiped out by the Nazis, but he must survive, he will not let them take his life. He succeeds with much determination and follows his dreams to america where