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One Eye Laughing The Other Weeping
One Eye Laughing The Other Weeping THE DAIRY OF JULIE WEISS
The setting of the book takes places in Vienna, Austria and New York. It is about a young Jewish girl named Julie Weiss. It is in the year 1938 the month of January. Julie has a brother named Max a father and a mother her father is a doctor. Her mom wanted everything to be perfect. Julie’s life was very good. She had a best friend named Sophia. Julie had a piano teacher and a teacher who taught English. Julie is smart. She is A+ student. One night her uncle came to her house for dinner. After dinner he talked about Hitler and his plans against the Jews and Julie over heard. Her uncle thought that would be spared because he converted and was baptized. Julie’s father told him that Hitler would not make a distinction between converts and Jews. The first time Julie realized she was different was when at the age of four Max was beaten and called names.
In March 11, 1938 the Chancellor of Austria resigned and gave the country over to Hitler. The next day it was not the same because of Hitler. In school they made the Jewish kids get off their chairs and then they washed them. Her father could not work as a doctor. The Nazis made more rules against the Jews. They were being arrested and killed. Julie’s mom killed herself. Julie her brother and her father were very sad. Her aunt Clare gave her invite to New York . She was sad her brother and father are not coming .HER dad explained to her why they are not going. SO she went to the ship to New York .When she came to New York she was treated well. They went to the mall to buy clothes to wear because all her clothes smelled like fish. Her Aunt and her Uncle were very nice to her. In America she did not like to go anywhere she stayed home all day long. But one day she went to the zoo

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