Tuesday 22 May 2012
Blogging using criteria
As you begin to blog about Daniel's Story remember to refer to your criteria sheet. Creating a powerful response needs to include a passage or quote that clearly shows persecution occurring in the novel. This quote/passage needs to have made you react strongly in some way - angered, frustrated, devastated, in disbelief. Copy the passage/quote directly from the novel and include the page number it can be found on. Explain your feelings and emotions you felt when reading this and explain why. Go into detail as this will show a deeper level of understanding. A powerful response also needs to included connections. As everyone is now on their second novel, maybe more, you can connect to what you have already read. What is similar or dissimilar about the characters, about the events? Finally, leave off by asking a deep thinking question. What do you wonder about, what questions do you have? It might be about something we have talked about in class and you have been thinking about it, wondering about it? Maybe it is something that has occurred in the novel and you would like to hear others' opinions. This is the time to ask.
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Pg. 107-108, There was a tall fair SS man, with his tall blonde wife and their two blonde blue eyed children. The children, both girls, were dressed in frilly white dresses- Probably stolen from some poor dead Jewish families I thought- the mother in a stylish blue dress and heels, the father in his SS uniform. They arranged them smartly in front of the camera and followed Karl's instructions to the letter. They looked so content, so well fed, the model of a perfect family. The father kissed the children pleasantly when the pictures had been taken. The perfect model father.
ReplyDeleteThe "perfect" family. What do you get when you take that mans uniform and gun away from him? Well it seems to me like he's a liar. What if your little girls best friend was jewish? But oh wait that would never happen because you would never let your child ever come in talking distance with a jew. Blonde haired and blue eyed, 'perfect' did you ever notice that barbie dolls are blonde haired and blue eyed? Barbies are considered perfect today, when and where did barbies begin manufacturing? The truth is that all Hitler was doing was trying to make Europe perfect, yet he was brown haired and eyed. What was Hitlers stressor that activated that much hate of the world? What did his parents look like? Did they have something to do with Hitlers deep hatred of Jewish people? Hitler was obviously insane but what drove him to that insanity? Was it the war itself or was it his deep need for perfection. I kind of feel like a profiler from the show Criminal Minds, trying to find out what in Hitlers life was making him want to kill all of these innocent people. I am very curious about his life as a child and his state of sanity when the war started to when the war finished.
@Livee
DeleteI felt bad when I read that because if you think about it if that "perfect family " was Jewish they would be in a camp and being tortured just like the dad was doing. As well as if they were Jewish they would not be getting there picture taken.
This is also horrible because the dad right after this empties a hole clip of bullets into a little kid who is about 13 what if they were Jewish and one of the girls died that way what would the dad do?
@Snakeboy216- That child is our age, it's scary to think that that could have been us, it could have been someone in our families. I am wondering about the extreme overkill on the boy. How many bullets did he empty in the boys body? He only needed one bullet...
Delete@Livee- I also thought about that about only needing one bullet, or did he really deserve even that one. I wonder what was going through the soliders head after putting those bullets into the child or even during. Why didn't he stop after the first?..
Delete@Cookie Monster- There is very little compassion between the SS men and the jews. I'm not saying that there isn't any but there is most likely an inadequate amount. That boy did not deserve one bullet let alone how many were in the gun at the time, none of the prisoners did. What the concentration camps did to those poor people makes me sick.
DeleteGreat back and forth discussion. Some thoughtful responses which shows you are truly imagining what it would have been like to be at this place in time. I still wonder if this man did not see that boy as a human? Did he simply see it as a rat? Even a rat I could not kill like that, I would not have survived in Germany during this war. I abhor violence of any kind and find it totally incomprehensible that some people do not seem to have empathy for people. There was a news story on the radio as I was driving to work this morning that stated small animals in the Maple Ridge area were being mutilated. It has been shown that if a person can harm an animal they can harm a person. Were the deadliest officers of the SS also this cruel to animals?
Delete" The SS officer whose picture Karl had just taken informed the boy that was sweeping he'd missed a piece of dirt. The child ran to sweep. The SS officer shot him in the leg. With a cry the child fell forward. GET UP AND KEEP WORKING! the officer yelled. The child dragged himself up and continued to sweep. The officer shot him in the other leg. GET UP GET WORKING YOU LAZY IDIOT! the officer screamed. The child tried, but obviously he couldn't get up. The officer emptied his gun into the child's body."
ReplyDeleteThis was a jaw dropper because to miss only one piece of dirt and lose your life for it was scary and even when he did get shot the first time the boy tried to get it but was not given enough time.
What would you do if you got shot in one of your legs would you try to get up or just give up.
For me the bigger issue is can you imagine being that boy even before the shot rang out. I am positive that he was living in fear, knowing that any wrong move could cause him death.
DeleteImagine all those who live that way today. If you were living in Syria where the fighting is happening, everyone would be terrified to go and get simple food to survive. In countries such as Sudan in Africa so many families worry if they will make it through the the night without being massacred because of the drug lords.
We are able to climb into our warm beds each night and only worry about the small trivial things. Reading and hearing these stories remind me how lucky I am but I also need to think, 'Can I do anything to change the world, to help bring peace in some way?'
What page is this?
DeleteI had a WOW moment on page 14, Big signs were posted at the pools saying "No Jews or Dogs Allowed."
ReplyDeleteThat would be really hurtful if you were Jewish to see a sign that said that, to get treated like animals, get caged up. It really makes me mad to hear that! There not doing anything bad, yet they still get treated like this it is so so sad!
It would be very hurtful and confusing at the same time. Imagine you are a small child and you walk by a public pool on a scorching hot day. All you want is to go in for a swim to cool down. You can not understand why other small children are in there but you are not. Imagine!
Deletei had a wow moment on page 45-56
ReplyDeleteGerman soldiers threw babies, new borns, little children, out of the window and into a truck. This passage really touched me, makes me think if i were a parent and that happened to my kid. even to see this happen makes me mad, sad, makes me want to yell at the germans. I don't know how they could ever do that to someone, what ignorant, rude people they were.
There was one camment that made me go "Oh wow"
ReplyDeleteIt was when Daniel was thinking about why this happened and why God would let it happen
"I don't get why God would let this happen. I don't even know what to believe in anymore."
The qoute was something like that and i forget what page it waas on but it really struck me and i asked myself, WHY would god let this happen
For Katniss
ReplyDeleteI went looking for my model SS Officer. I found him in his house, a prisoner with a gun guarding him.
"May I speak with him?" I asked his guard.
"Of course." the man replied.
Gun in hand, I rushed over to one of the little girls and picked her up.
"Don't worry," I whispered in her ear. "This is only pretend."
She nodded and seemed unafraid.
"No!" screamed her mother.
"The little boy you shot to death, he had just as much right to live as your child." I said quietly, all my rage pouring out. "A life for a life?" I waited a moment, but the officer didn't flinch. Then I put the child down and pointed the gun at the SS man's head. Fear sprang into his eyes, and his daughter began to cry.
I totally agreed with the mother... How does that SS officer possibly have any right to shoot that child?!?! Also since the officer apparently had the "right" to shoot that child, could he have imagined his child getting shot? Probably, not....
T/T -I had a connection reading this, If the child who got shot and his parents were there how heart breaking would that be? That's when my connection came into my head, when I was reading Jacob's Rescue it reminded me of when Alex(Jacob's Uncle) had to see his child die...
The SS man shot him in the leg. With a cry the child fell forward. “Get up and keep working” The officer yelled. The child dragged himself up and kept sweeping. The officer shot him in the other leg. “Get up and keep working you lazy idiot”! The officer yelled. The child tried to stand but obviously couldn’t so the SS officer shot him in the chest.
ReplyDeleteWHy would he do such a horrid thing? Would he like that if someone did that to his kid? why do the nazis teach people so badly?
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