Friday, December 12, 2014

The Devil's Arithmetic Finale

Summary:
We start off with a young girl named Hannah. Hannah Stern who lives with her parents and brother. One evening they attend a special dinner in which Hannah does not want to go. When she gets there she has to hear stories from the Holocaust which bore her. As she excuses herself from the dinner table and opens a door, she is taken back in time to 1942 in Poland. She insist that her name is Hannah and she lives in the United States. As she's back in time, she tries to tell the Jews what to do because she knows the story. As she works her ways through the days in the camp, she meets a lot of people she can relate to. They also do some Jews would do like steal, hide, etc. As time passes, Hannah and her friends are separated into two groups. Since Hannah knows the outcome, she tries to change it and as she does, she is taken back to present day. How did everything happen? Read it.


Genre:
The genre of The Devil's Arithmetic is historical-fiction. How can I tell? Well, it takes place back when the Holocaust began and ended. One way you know it was a historical book. Fiction on the other hand you can tell because how can Hannah be transported back into time to Poland in 1942? Weird. Maybe the names the author used were real but we don't know for a fact. And some of the things Hannah does with her friends in the camp, Jews in real life could've done them like steal and hide.


Friday, December 5, 2014

Devil's Arithmetic

Summary:
In my book a girl named Hannah lives with her jewish family. One day she had a special dinner with her whole family.  She drank some of the wine and she got drunk.  She walked to her room and as she was wandering around the room, she knockout and went in a different world. into a different world back into 1933-1945. Was it a dream? She faded into Germany back when the Holocaust was starting.  She just got captured by the Germans and is on her way to what she thinks its a concentration camp. Her and her family were on the verge of getting married but everything changed because they were captured by the Germans. 

Plot:


Their is the main character in the book, The Devil's Arithmetic , goes by the name Hannah Dreads. Taking place during the Holocaust,  she goes back in time to find out the truth about the Jews. I can't really say much about the climax because in the book we haven't read to that point in the book. But what I can say is she's going back in time to try and figure out the meaning of why Germany is doing this to the Jews. That's when you start to see the rising action.

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

The Holocaust

I seriously think that many people could've changed and stand up for the Jews.  Problem is was that maybe they were frightened of what may of had happened to them if they did. Hitler and the Nazis had control of over mostly the entire continent of Europe. They pretty much had control over everything and everyone.  They probably thought on what they would have to go through if they tried to help the Jews. Many others probably didn't know what would happen to the Jews. Though some people did stand up for them. Oskar Schindler was one of them. He used his big factories as a safe zone for some of the Jews. Even though he was a Nazi, he really didn't like the way the Germans treated the Jews. That's when he started those safe zone factories. To be honest, I probably would be a bystander. I wouldn't want to put mine of my family's life in danger. Maybe if I could've started a big organization, then maybe I would try to stand up for the Jews.