I have recently finished the book "Fever 1789" by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was filled with a roller coaster of emotion leaving the reader on the edge before every chapter. The description in the book fills my mind of how it was back in the 1700's. This book demostrats a good understanding of the environment and tone in the book. At the end of the book it shows real life sections of how Anderson used history into a fictional story. The other book i'm reading is "Night" by Ellie Wiesel. It shows a similiar dark approach to the book's setting. The book is based off Ellie's life in a concentration camp during the Nazi regime. Ellie was only just a young boy and he had to endure painful suffering. Watching the people die around you and seeing your…
Elie Wiesel's Night is a terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horrors that turned between 11 to 17 million people into agonized witnesses to the deaths of their families and friends. I chose this book to read because I had heard from numerous people that it was "the best book about the Holocaust I could ever read" . I read it and found out that it went into much more detail than some of the other Holocaust books I had read. This book was extremely powerful as it awakened me to the terror that many people went through during the Holocaust at the concentration camps. I found the book to be incredibly addicting and easy to read.…
What would you do if you went back in time to the Holocaust? “The Devil’s Arithmetic” by Jane Yolen is about a jewish girl named Hannah who is tired of remembering about her family’s past. In the book Hannah is transported back in time to the time of the Holocaust. Hannah is taken to a concentration camp where she sees and feels what the Jews had to go through back then. By the end of the story, Hannah learns the importance of remembrance and how it impacts your view of things. Remembering is important in this story and in real life because Jews must understand how important it is to know about your heritage and culture, they must remember the Holocaust and its victims, and how important it is to use your voice when lives are at stake.…
The book I chose to do this project on was the book by Wes Moore titled “the other Wes Moore”. The reason I had chosen this is because I was able to relate to it a lot more than any of the other books in the choices that were made present to me. Wes Moore does a great job in describing how easy one can make decisions that have long term reactions in everyone’s lives. This book was not one merely to tell a good story but one to educate of the many issues that we face in America and to perhaps change the minds of some of the youth out there. The book captures you into the lives of not only the author but that of the other Wes Moore who is a felon in prison serving a life time sentence for the part he served in the shooting of a police officer. The book starts you from the very beginning of their lives so that you can track down from the beginning where and how these two men ended up on the path that lead them where they are today and where that dramatic split occurred between their two destinies. The book does a great job of attacking our pre-notions of the book because the author Wes Moore’s life wasn’t all glamour and perfect and the other Wes Moore’s life wasn’t all in the streets filled with violence and crime as one would have though and thus making the book all the more interesting.…
The author that is my topic is Walter Dean Myers. Mr. Myers is one of my favorite authors. Mr. Myers lived from 1936 to 2014. He has been awarded many awards for his books. He has written over 200 books.…
Reading the Holocaust by Inga Vivienne Clendinnen, who is an Australian author and historian, anthropologist and academic.…
Parallel Journeys has been a wonderful addition to my Holocaust Literature course. The novel allows…
Prima- donna numbers is another name for prime numbers. Prima- donna numbers/ prime numbers can only be divided evenly by one and itself. In The Number Devil, the Number Devil does the prima-donna numbers from 0 to 50. I created a chart, just like in the number devil and figured out which ones are prima-donna numbers. The number 0 does not count because if you divide a number by 0 the answer will always be 0.…
John Hick defined evil as “physical pain, mental suffering and moral wickedness” For Hick, the consequence of evil is suffering…
For this final project our work had to answer 3 essential questions: What is social injustice, what were the causes and effects of the Holocaust/social injustice, and what lessons about human behavior can be learned from the Holocaust/social injustice. My allegory answered the first question by describing how unfairly the girls were being treated by Caroline. To relate to the holocaust Caroline was supposed to be the Germans discriminating…
Her style of writing as disturbing as it leaves the reader is an appropriate one for the topic she must explain. After reading other Holocaust novels such as “Night” by Elie Wiesel the reader is informed of the sadistic imagination that led to such torture; however, this novel to thoroughly accounts what hell was like from a woman’s standpoint. The subject is often one overlooked, sure everyone knows of the crematories and gas chambers but what about the topic of abortions? This novel offers insight to subjects that normally are not the first to arise in holocaust books. This novel offers the unique stand point of the Holocaust from a woman’s point of view one who endured the torture and survived. Gisella Perl was a mother who had to watch thousands of other mothers watch their children die, a horror unimaginable only to be captured through Gisella Perl. I would recommend this novel possible to be taught in conjunction with other Holocaust literature that is required because of the style Perl uses to portray her unique view point of a horrific…
The Number Devil - A Mathematical Adventure, by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, begins with a young boy named Robert who suffers from reoccurring nightmares. Whether he’s getting slurped up by a giant fish, sliding down an endless slide into a black hole, or falling into a raging river, his incredibly detailed dreams always seem to have a negative effect on him. Robert’s nightmares either frighten him, make him angry, or disappoint him. His one wish is to never dream again; however, instead of the nightmares coming to a halt, his dreams take a turn for the weird. Instead of falling down holes and such, he meets the Number Devil. Using giant furry calculators, piles of coconuts, electronic glass boxes, and an endless amount of scrolling paper (just to name a few), the Number Devil introduces Robert to several different concepts of numeracy. Over the course of twelve dreams, Robert is taken further and further into mathematical theories where he eventually winds up marveling at just what numbers can do.…
This is that category of book. This book should be a preeminent candidate for any canon of literature that is required reading in High School (maybe even earlier) Literature, Communications, Civics, English, and other associated disciplines.…
The book I read was Never To Forget The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer. The book is written by Meltzer’s true story of the. It tells the story of when over five million Jewish people were massacred. The book has no characters. From beginning to end the book takes place in Germany. It only tells the straight forward account of the Jewish Holocaust. He writes the story in an interesting view point because he is an old American Jew, watching events of the war from newspapers and radios. Writing the book in informational facts. The first chapter is entitled “History of Hatred.” It describes the horrible conditions Jews had to endure prior to the date January of 1933, Hitler comes to power. It also explains how the Jews were enslaved by ancient Pharos. The second chapter is entitled “Destruction of the Jews.” It tells about Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-…
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what topic should I discuss on my essay or which topic should I perform the phenomenological method on. Initially I would’ve gone with something that I cannot take away from myself without changing who I am or my identity. I thought of how I could never stop being a sister to my siblings, or how I could never stop fighting for what I believe in, as I’m a very vocal person when it comes to my beliefs. I also thought about my passion for reading books, how it’s a form of escape for me and how I can’t imagine a life without it. But then a couple of weeks ago, I read Elie Wiesel’s masterpiece entitled “Night” and it made me rethink of my topic. In the story, Eliezer was a very religious person and a loving son to his parents. In the story, he would spend a lot of time reading religious books and discussing his faith to the people around him. He was a Jew and so he lives in a community of Jewish people. It seems like nothing can make him doubt his faith as he was very in love with it. But then the holocaust happened, and like any other Jew during the time of the Second World War, Eliezer and his family were sent to concentration camps. In camp, Elie was separated from his mother and sisters and was left with his Father. As he was only left with his father, he promised to take care of him no matter what and that he would never be as selfish as those who prioritize their survival more than protecting the only family they have left. However, towards the end of the story, when everyone was mostly at the verge of dying, Eliezer suddenly changed. He saw his dad dying in a corner but he felt neither scared nor sad. He actually felt terribly relieved because then he would have a larger share of food. He even believed that there’s no such thing as a God anymore because if there was, then how can this God let such horrible thing to happen. So this changed my whole perspective with myself. It made me question whether I can never really stop…
