Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Blogging using criteria
As you begin to blog about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 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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“This must be the countryside” said Gretel turning round to look at her brother triumphantly. Page 33. Alright... that made me go WOW because that was stupid that countryside really like really. That made me mad because you are in that middle of WW11 and your 12 years old and you are living in that middle of concentration camp and you don't know whats going on so you assume that your in farm land well let me tell you some thing assume makes a but out of you and me. T/T I read 3 other books and from each book you get an image of what a concentration camp looks like and what they describe is one of those camps. And now for my Q: If you were the same age as Gretel and looking out that same window not knowing what was going on, what would you think of where you are????
ReplyDelete"Ah, those people,” said father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. “Those people ... well they're not people at all, Bruno.”
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To read that and to have some one think that blow my mind!!! I was bewilder at they way one can think of another person. You should call anyone that can think like that a devils helper. You are calling those poor Jews animals like a cat or a dog actually less then an animal. That is like saying oh I will treat that women over there like my pet fish and never clean the tank and feed it not even everyday just because she is Jewish. Mean right??? If you had a lot of hate to person would you treat them the same way Hitler? But before you answer that question think and think lots don't just answer no.
T/S
I dislike people because they are mean to me and i had a connection to that because some of those mean people treat me like I'm invisible and I don’t mind until I'm in the same room as them then there is a problem and that is because we dislike each other but I could never have so much hatred to that person that I would do some thing like Hitler did to the Jews.
@daisy duck I know! when I read that I was shocked, I can't believe that any human being could be thought of anything less then a human. When they said that they are not people I thought "then what are they?" They are people that were just like all of the germans that hated them. It is so unfair to have all of your rights,dignity, freedoms, and feeling of self worth just stripped away from you! I am hoping that people now see what they are all capable of and congratulations Hitler! Its your fault for millions of people dead! I wonder what his mother would say if she was alive while he was doing all this, I know that if I was her I would not be proud!
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DeleteI totally agree with your response. I couldn't believe that anyone would treat another person like they are below an animal. Maybe even a rock. Treating them like they are nothing. This makes me think how I would feel if I were treating the Jews like nothing, and how it would feel to be treated like nothing.
Pavel gave a gentle laugh and shook his head.” You're not going to bleed to death.” he said pulling a stool across and settling Bruno's lag on it.
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I was amazed that a servant could have the courage to help a boy that you are not suppose to even talk to with-out permission let alone touch him. You could even think he is most likely a Jew. And I also like the end of this chapter (spoiler alert) when mother thanks him, and looks past the fact that he could very well be Jewish, for looking after her son when she couldn't. That is why it was a wow moment. He had that courage.
T/S
This reminds me of when my mom takes care of me when I'm sick or hurt.
'Who are all those people outside?' he said finally. Father tilted his head to the left, looking a little confused by the question. 'Soldiers, Bruno,' he said. 'And secretaries. Staff workers. You've seen them all before, of course.' 'No,not them,' said Bruno. "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."-pg.53
ReplyDeleteI had a questions lingering inside my head how could Bruno's father possibly have the guts to say the people outside aren't human?
When I read the passage I started to wonder who and where does Bruno's father work?
If I was in Bruno's position I would've just bursted out to his father "HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY SAY THAT?!?!", saying somebody is inhumane that is just unacceptable just because they have a different belif system doesn't mean you can say that....
If I was Bruno's dad would I ever be able to say that to my son?
@ Katniss
DeleteI agree with the fact that i could never say that to my child whats so ever i would ture and look at Brouno and speak the truth."Bruno those people are jews and hitler hates them and im that head of command.Plus I make the solders mass murder them." I would never call anyone no a person. And it is funny how when you speak the truth it sounds a lot diffrent in your mind then out loud.
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Delete@ Daisy Duck
DeleteYea, I totally agree it sounds way different then you say it in your mind...
Also. even if Bruno's father had hatred in the Jews does that mean that he could tell his son that? and if I was in Bruno's fathers position I would've said what you would've said and added on that is what jealousy and greed does...
"There aren't any good soldiers" said Shmuel.
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This did not wow me but it wowed me. you see this is what I saw in this book you are looking through 2 sets of eyes, Shmuel and Bruno, Jew and German. In Shmuel a nine year old jew who see's this mass killing every day and who does not disobay because he only doesn't want to be beatin or killed and hates the S.S men. then on the other hand we have Bruno the nine year old German how eats every day and has nice cloths and arguses with is parents and also like soliers. The only thing that I see diffrenty in this book from the other books is that it is in the Germans eye view not the jews. anyhow this passage made me think not realy feel. It made me think about how the Germans see the S.S men as there heros and not there killers. The Germans think the S.S men will save them from thge horabble people the jew are soppoesed to be. And the Jews see them as there killers, mass merders and also as killing machens. It is like they live a dubble life. If you had the chose of being a solder or a slave what would you be????
'Who are all those people outside?' he said finally. Father tilted his head to the left, looking a little confused by the question. 'Soldiers, Bruno,' he said. 'And secretaries. Staff workers. You've seen them all before, of course.' 'No,not them,' said Bruno. "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."-pg.53
ReplyDeleteIf I was in Bruno position I would be so confused of what my father had just said. They aren't people? But they look just like everyone else. They look like me and you. They have two eyes, two ears, a nose and a mouth.. doesn't almost everyone?
I wonder if Bruno was a real life person and his father said that to him and I wonder how Bruno would react. Would he question his father or just think about what his father said and keep it to himslef. Was he that curious why he would say something like that? If he spoke up and asked more questions could more Jewish have survived?