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The main character in the book is a 13-year-old boy from New York City, named Brian Robeson. What I admired most about Brain was his ability to persevere alone in the Canadian wilderness and surviving the blistering cold of winter. One thing I disliked about Brian is that he always thinks he is going crazy. For example, he heard a popping sound at night and thought he had been alone for too long and that his mind was making things up. Brain’s strengths include, but are not limited to perseverance, intelligence, resourcefulness, and creativity. The main problem in the book was that Brain was stranded in the Canadian wilderness after a plane crash and must face the winter alone. He resolves the problem by discovering how to survive by making arrowheads to kill large prey and uses their skin to make warm clothing. He also finds ways to make snowshoes, so he can walk in the snow without sinking. …show more content…
Most of the book is focused inside the bunker where Hitler is weakened by a failed assassination attempt, while German soldiers were traveling through the Ardennes Forest in Luxembourg in an effort to win the war. It also provides insight into the minds of the men who dared to fight and the generals that led them. Additionally, it gives details about the last desperate attempt of Hitler to turn the tide of the war and keep Germany away from the Americans and the Russians; and, why Hitler thought the Jews were to blame for all of Germany’s
To summarize the In the Garden of Beasts, it is about an ambassador and his daughter in Berlin during Hitler’s rise to absolute power in 1933-1937. It begins with Dodd,
The book Soldier X is all about world war II. The book talks about many of the bad thing during World War II. Such as things that happened during battles and Hilters ideas to kill all Jews. And to rid the world of Judaism. It also relates because it talks about the tensions between Russia and Germany.
Everything is criticized at every level in this story, the people by the main character, the main character by the author and even the story by the author as well. The cruel egoistic personality of Anders is definitely identifiable through these different levels of criticism. I will prove that the inner motivation of this behaviour derives from Anders' egoistic personality which sometimes makes him cruel against others, sometimes against himself. Furthermore, I will prove that whenever Anders criticizes somebody or something he actually tries to punish because of the imperfectness of the object. In order to make the referring to the different part of the story easier I divide it into three parts. The first part ends when the robbers appear at the door of the bank, the second ends when one of the robbers shoots at Anders and the left is the third part.
Lord Of The Flies is possibly one of the most complex novels of the twentieth century. This complexity and depth is evident when the characters are compared to the psychological teachings of Freud. The book shows examples of this psyche in the characters Jack, Piggy and Ralph and how they change during their time on the island.
I really enjoyed this book because it was not a story about the middle of the Second World War. Instead it was right before, when things were not as bad, but they were bad enough. It helped me understand how people lived before the hatred grew and how families were torn apart right from the beginning. Likewise, it gave me hope to see that not everything was destroyed and that some people were able to escape. I would recommend this book more for boys but for girls as well, between the ages of 13-15. Even though Karl’s age throughout the book is 14-17, the novel was written more for my age group. Once again this was an amazing book that I could not put down, and I am sure many others were not able to either.
...m Adolf Hitler’s alpine-retreat -Irmgard Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood.” (Hunt) Growing up in Germany just steps away, from Adolf Hitler the chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany Hunt we see although Hunt had a seemingly happy, simple childhood she lived in the face of evil, destruction, and complete and utter chaos. We saw how World War II and the third Reich transformed the Hunt’s family’s life. Also, we saw how Jew’s were treated in the Nazi regime. Although, Irmgard Hunt lived her childhood in complete chaos, she was still able to live through adversity, and see how her family lived through adversity. There is a lot of World War II to memoirs and books out there, but, none like this memoir written by Irmgard Hunt. We, see not only was it chaos for Jew’s help in captivity but it was also chaos for German people and supporters of the Nazi’s.
Science cannot explain everything but it strives to look for answers and relies on proof. Religion is based solely on faith and believes in many things that do not make sense and do not have proof to support its ideas. The belief that there is a substance beyond the element that takes up no space, but is still connected with the body is one of them. The belief that the mind or soul are not linked to the body and that they are both two separate substances. The body is one and the mind is another. This belief is not logical and does not make sense now that without the brain, which is a substance that makes up a body, a person could not function in the world. The mind and the brain are one, and these two elements cannot be separated now that the brain is just another part of the body.
All of these places were close to or where Jewish concentration camps, Auschwitz which is referred to in the book as a massive death camp, because of all of the gas chambers, burning pits, and just the millions of massacres that took place during WW2 in Germany. Buchenwald was the place where most of the political prisoners went which were the political peoples that Adolf Hitler did not like. Daniel and his father mostly stuck together somehow throughout the book and was separated from Erika and his mother. Yet that his mother died, Erika almost survived until the end where she was too weak to go on in life. Daniel says everything was supposed to be over but really it was just the beginning of the mourning that took place all over Germany for the
The book Brain on Fire is a captivating and compelling story about a young woman with a debilitating autoimmune disorder, anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis (Anti-NMDAR encephalitis). The young woman, Susannah Cahalan, experiences many bumps and turns with her disease, and this makes for a very thrilling tale. When I first picked up the book, I assumed it was a memoir or journal from a person (Susannah Cahalan) with a mental illness, and how she dealt with it, along with her time in a mental institution. This book, I that thought was going to be generic, was not the dull book that I assumed I was assigned to read. However, I was happily wrong, and I was barely able to set the book down and not read ahead. The chilling medical mystery,
Throughout history, it has been noted that when an individual is isolated from civilization, various psychological effects take a toll on that person’s well-being. Sigmund Freud, an Austrian psychologist, believed that when a person is isolated from civilization, a darker “savage” side naturally takes over (“Id, Ego, and Super-ego” n. pag). William Golding shared this belief and used it as inspiration to write one of his most well-known novels, Lord of the Flies. Freud’s findings on the human mind led him to believe there are three main parts: The id, the ego, and the super-ego (“Id, Ego, and Super-ego” n. pag). Jack, Ralph, Simon, and Piggy are not only the main characters in Golding’s Lord of the Flies, but also embody the id, ego, and super-ego characteristics of Freudian psychology.
During World War, I (WWI) nationalism was the fuel that kept the war among Europe. Germans were fighting for their country as French would also do it. The pride of fighting for one's country was the major achievement a young man could get. The book “All Quiet on The Western Front” depicts the adventures of a group of German young men when they are off to the war. In this book instead of depicting what really happens in the war, the author focuses on the depressing and harsh journey that this group of young men faced to serve their country. The book describes explicitly how the main characters risk their lives and even lose it because of the war, and even in many instances many of the characters show where they stand regarding the war and the
Paul Thompson in the article Startling finds on Teenage Brains explains that Teenagers brains have a different look at the wrongs thing.Thompson supports his explan ation by first listing things that teenegers think different from adults.He then cites evidence on how teenegers think and give examples of teens with problems.Thompson's purpose is to inform others about thing teenegers brain works in order to show the world the problem.The author writes in an informal tone the teens out there.This work is significant because it showed how a teenegers mind works and what they could be capeple
In “Bullet in the Brain,” Tobias Wolff expertly utilizes the underlying banal platitudes that come with an old cliché, watching your life flash before your eyes, in order to craft an engaging and suspenseful story. Furthermore, this reinvention is evident through the plots structure and unexpected twists. Thus, the overarching theme of the story—the perils of continual dissociation and remaining true to oneself—is revealed through the main character’s (Anders) interactions with the larger world.
As far as I could remember I was never really any good at school. I couldn’t concentrate on things for no more than 5 minutes at a time I would either get discouraged or find it too easy and just give up. An author by the name of Carol Dweck wrote an article called “Brainology” in it Dweck describes that there are two types of mindsets fixed and growth. Those who are afraid to fail so they never try anything new are ones with a fixed mindset and the growth mindset are those who are not afraid to fail and find a new challenge an opportunity to learn something new. I guess you can say that I had a bit of a fixed mindset growing up I was always too scared to look stupid that I didn’t want to fail because I didn’t want to disappoint my siblings
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