Vocab 4 Blog

While skulking into the courtroom the boy felt as if the walls of the hall were converging in on him. While sitting waiting to hear what his sentence would be his finite attention span caused him to day dream of all the things that might happen to him and juvie and he became very scared. Up until this point he felt invulnerable to the law but now he felt at the mercy of the seemingly malevolent jury and the apparently omniscient judge. Attempting to act nonchalant the boy would look anywhere but the intimidating jury. After what seemed like eternity he was expunged of his community service sentence the jury gave him after a venial offense. It was uncanny how many times he was able to get away with his petty crimes.

Pianist Blog 1

I think the situations that both Elie Wiesel and Wladyslaw Szpilman were similar in the beginning but quickly change in nature. Wlad and Elie seemed to be very family oriented people. And both Elie and Wlad are devastated when they were separated from their families. However where their circumstances change significantly is the amount of outside help Wlad was able to recieve versus what Elie had to endure. Elie was put into the concentration camps where he could recieve no help from outsiders and non jews. Despite how tough it would be to deal with the situation Wlad was put in Elie had it much tougher. With Elie having his Dad for most the time he was there that probably helped him but his dad eventually became more of a liability. For both people they attempted to keep a low profile and do their best to get through the worst hell imaginable.

Night #1

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Ms Schacter I believe served as a warning from God just like Moishe the beadle was to the Jews. Similar to Moishe she saw the horror the group was about to go through and warned them and just like Moishe they ignored her. The fire she screamed of happened to be where Jews were burned alive by th hundreds.
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Elie had a gold crown in his mouth. Gold being a valuable metal was searched for in peoples mouths. I think the Germans were attempting to strip all the value they could from the jews to help fund their terror.

What Do I Know about the Holocaust

I know that the Holocaust that occurred in Nazi Germany consisted of finding Jews and placing them in concentration camps that were absolute hell. And when the concentration camps were full Jews were killed brutally. Sometimes Jews were killed before even getting to concentration camps.

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Trapped, caged, tattered clothes, depressing, barbed wire, bleak.
Keyword: Prisoner

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Cramped, Tight spaces, hungry, starved, unhealthy, frail, weak, dirty.
Keyword: Ghastly

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Glasses, frames, Abundance.
Keyword: It's a bunch of glasses for god-sake how am I supposed to get a keyword out of that?

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Death, Fear, Distraught, Uncertainty, Despair, Pain, Lost hope
Keyword: Suffering

Jewish prisoners in the Holocaust were malnourished, ghastly, and suffered the worst kind of hell imaginable on this earth.

Reflection Blog

I have been overall pleased with the effort I have put in this semester. I have been doing my work and getting good enough grades which is nice. I don't think the class blog is helpful for me because I never use it. I follow Ms. Spriggs on twitter. I found the narrative assignment to be rather annoying because of the length requirement. I think in a story the length of it should be determined when quality writing stops. The scholarship assignment was good because it is a practical assignment where we actually get something out of the assignment in the form of possible scholarship money

Final Blog

In the end of my book Ishmael Beah is rehabilitated and taken away from the war that surrounded him. However if I didn't know this before I started reading the book I don't know that I would have guessed that. Every part of his life he described seemed so tortured and dangerous. This is truly a testament to how hard some people have to fight and solider on just to stay alive. Ishmael is definitely one of the strongest people I have ever read about and I can't express how truly inspired I am by his perseverance, and forgiveness that he displays at the conclusion of my book.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soilder Blog 1

Ishmael Beah definitely had a tortured childhood. I can't imagine anything worse than being taken away from your family and being forced to fight a war and kill children just like yourself. Villages in Africa fear him because of all the other boy soldiers that invade and destroy their homes. I can't imagine a worse or more alienated situation than what he went through. I like the book so far because of its intriguing story line and masterful story telling style. It is easy to follow along with what the author is sharing and the conflict throughout the book makes you want to read more. I think Ishmeal gets rescued from his circustances after some long episodes of suffering but is able to recover from what happened to him