Choose a short passage from your novel that made an impact on you as you read it, that made you stop and think maybe even say "Oh wow" to yourself. It may have made you stop and think because you made a personal connection. It may have made you wonder and ask a question. It may have made you react in some emotional way to the words on the paper. In your response, quote the passage and list the page number that it can be found on. Explain, in detail, why you chose this passage, what reason did you have that made you stop and think or had you reacting in some way. Include your feelings and emotions as well as state any connections you made (text to self, text to text, text to world). An example from another novel of how to start is this:
"Big signs were posted at the pool saying"No Jews or Dogs Allowed". pg 14
As I read this passage I couldn't believe that this could happen. How could the Jewish even be compared to dogs?"
Page: 54
ReplyDelete"'Heil Hitler,' he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying 'Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.'"
I had a Wow moment here because the boy would say "Heil Hitler" without knowing what it meant, what Hitler was doing. It also made me think: If the boy made friends or help a Jew in a camp like I predicted, would his own parents have to kill him since they server Hitler? If so, how would it make the parents feel?
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Delete@Game, I have also had similar thoughts, maybe it is a good thing that Bruno does not understand what is really happening. What he doesn't know won't kill him. Or so I thought.
Deletei love this book so far i am currently on chapter three i feel like this book is very mysterios.
ReplyDelete@blingbling, I am on chapter seven and I am finding the book a tad bit slow, maybe it is because I have not gotten far enough into it. Hopefully it will become more exiting to read as I get farther into the book.
DeleteI feel some what bad for Bruno, because he does not know or understand what horrible things are happening behind the fence, but I also envy him for being naive enough not to know what really happens. I can't seem to decide whether I would like to know (as I do now) what happened in those so called "showers", or never know and not care and not feel the pain for the loss of lives that happened in that horrible war.
ReplyDelete@minny mouse
Deletei was just thinking that to and i wonder how he would feel if he did know what happens on the otherside of the fence.
'Stupid Father,' he added under his breath. Maria's eyes opened wide and she took a stop towards him, her hands covering her mouth for a moment in horror. She looked round to make sure no one was listening to them and had heard what Bruno had just said. 'You mustn't say that,' she said. 'You must never say something like that about your father. - Page 59
ReplyDeleteI am wondering why Maria is so protective of Father. Is it because he took her in when she needed it desperately? Or maybe she is just worried about getting fired and having to live off by herself.
i would like to know that as well good question.
Delete@Minny Mouse
DeleteI think that the reason is because it is the fact that he took her in and took care of the money for her mothers cancer and funeral. I think also that she would hate to be fired just because she was a witness to his son saying that he is stupid. So it is both in my mind.
"The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same." "Ah, those people," said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. "Those people . . . well, they're not people at all Bruno." - Page 53
ReplyDeleteHow can someone say that? Just because someone has a different culture or race or is simply just different from you, you cannot call them un-human, everyone should be treated the same. People are people no matter what differences, people should not be classified. This part of the book had made me think a lot. How can someone say you are not a person because you are different. It's sickening.
@minnymouse when i read that I felt the exact same way it's crazy to think that all this really happened and how it could happen again. It is amazing what humans are capable of so much good but all the same so much bad..... just imagine your dad or uncle or whoever doing this to all these inncoent people and having no choice being forced and if not killed and someone else take your place. It's a very sad and scary thought I just hope that we have learned from our mistakes and that this inhumanity will never happen again.
Delete@ Minnymouse
DeleteI felt the same way. Hitler treats the jews with such disrespect and in a unhuman way and it is sad to think that one could say that about another. And it is also as Haley said crazy and scary to think that that could happen again.
i feel really bad for bruno he shouldnt have to do all the understanding of whats happening on the other side of the fence on his own his parents cant just saay that they are not really people and thats it its not fair.
ReplyDeletethis made me feel bad for bruno.
i know how bruno feels because whenever bruno asked his mom a question she iether wouldnt answer properly or give him the full understanding and say to much i hate that and that happens alot to me.
ReplyDelete"Standing there in your uniform," she continued, "as if it makes you something special. Not even caring for what it means really. What it stands for." - Page 91
ReplyDeleteI agree with the Grandmother, how can he ignore the real meaning of the uniform. His child admires him, for what? For killing innocent people? How can he do that to his child. He makes his child believe that he is a strong man, respected (which he is) but all for the wrong reasons. This makes me sick, how he can make his child think that he is a strong, kind man, doing what is right, when he is clearly doing things that are wrong.
pg. 40
ReplyDeleteWe should never have let the fury come to dinner she said. Some people and their determination to get ahead. Just after she said that she turned round and Bruno could see that she had tears in her eyes, but she jumped when she saw maria standing there watching her.
Maria she said in a startled tone of voice I thought you were in the car I was just leaving ma 'am said Maria I didn't mean began mother before shaking her head and started again I wasn't trying to suggest
I was just leaving ma 'am repeated Maria who must not have known the rule about not interrupting mother and stepped through the door quickly and ran to the car other had frowned but then shrugged as if none of it really mattered anymore anyway.
I was really shocked when I read this because if Bruno's mother just shrugged her shoulders carelessly like that it's like it didn't matter but did this mean that she knew what was going to happen to her and her family and that it didn't matter to her because she know or thought that she would die anyways?
Last week I watched the movie of the boy in the striped pyjamas and it was very touching and heartbreaking to see the way that the soldiers treated the Jewish people and how Brunos dad treated him I felt really bad and horrible and I cryed and I thought that this movie had alot of feeling I suggest that if you were interested in the book that you watch the movie it was super good.
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ReplyDeleteThere were small boys and big boys, fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps even uncles too...
So on..
"And where are all the girls?" she asked. "And the mothers? And the grandmothers?"
"Perhaps they live in a different part," suggested Bruno...
Who did Bruno and Gretel think those people were and why they were there? Did they even really think why there was only males there What did they think the kids were doing in a circle, looking scared? What did Bruno and Gretel think the soldiers was yelling at the males for? Did they just think they may have been working for the soldiers?
I just cant believe they didn't think more about it or even just asked one of their parents or maids. If I was either one I would want to know more about what was happening on the other side of the fence. I would be so curious and if I was either one and I knew my dad worked with them I would ask him a few questions about the things they were witnessing.