Tunes For Bears to Dance To by Robert Cormier
The theme for Tunes for Bears to Dance to by Robert Cormier is Friendship should matter
in real life. Like when Henry has barely any relationship with his Dad. And when he befriends Mr.
Levine a survivor. But when he is told to do something that is very terrible. He has to choose
between selfishness and friendship. He has two choices. Destroy something one of his friend's
possession, the survivor's home village, it is a wood replica of it. Or get fired and not get a statue
for his brother's. Which one should he do????
In Tunes for Bears to Dance to the Henry has hardly any friendship with his father. His
father will ask how he is doing occasionally. In the end his friendship does not change. But it will
grow a little stronger. His dad had some problems with gambling and lost it when his older son,
Eddie, died. Henry, the father's youngest son, has sort of, became the man of family. Henry works
at a market.
Henry is given a choice to destroy the village or get fired from his job working at the
market. Mr. Levine, the survivor, was taken from his village and put in a concentration camp
during World War II. Mr. Levine lost his entire family to the Holocaust. Mr. Levine spends his
days working in an art store. He built a replica of his village. Henry is given a choice by his boss,
Mr. Hairston, a man who is prejudice to Jews, to either destroy the village to get a statue for his
brother's grave or get fired.
What did he do? He destroyed it. But when he did it, it broke his heart and the Mr.
Levine's heart too. Henry apologized to the Mr. Levine and the Mr. Levine forgave him. But
when the Henry told Mr. Hairston he did it, he didn't take the statue as credit for it. The Henry
was fired for it. He made the right choice not taking the statue for doing it. Because it was the
wrong thing to do. If he had taken he would probably still have his job and there would be a
statue where his brother was buried. Mr. Levine and everyone at the art store would probably be
mad at him if they found out he did take statue for destroying the village.
Henry was an extremely lonely nine-year-old boy whose greatest wish was to get a dog. His parents were busy with their work most of the time and it seemed that Henry did not have any friends, perhaps because they moved so often. A dog would have provided Henry with unconditional love - something in short supply around his house - and would have been the perfect companion. The problem was, his parents did not want dog, which would have been another obligation and something else to take care of. As emotionally detached as his parents were, something else to take care of was just not desirable.
Throughout his life, the only relationship he was able to maintain was with his sister. On the other hand, his relationship with his parents was very strained; At one point he declared that his "entire childhood seem like a fiction"(123) due to his dad’s infidelity.
Bruce has just been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease (which in 1956 was not curable). Henry's wife, Holly, is pregnant with their first child and he has no interest in Rochester, Minnesota in wintertime, but he goes. That's the kind of person Henry is. He's not a sweet-faced do-gooder. He's a tough, no-nonsense, individualistic competitor, but he's a loyal person who knows right from wrong and understands that people sometimes have to step out of their own box and do something for others. His wife understands that too. So he flies to Minnesota, picks up Pearson and drives him home to his family.
...s inner self. What is seen as a relationship amongst these two young men is now torn apart by the transformation of Henry caused from his witnesses during warfare.
... so little heart. Pollard was meant to be a sympathetic character, in spite of all of his faults, so the creators endeavored to keep him just human enough for us to care about him but detached enough to stay sane when surrounded by these eccentric people. This delicate balance between empathy and apathy could probably not have lasted for very long for his character had the show been allowed to run its full course. John Enbom explained that they had no concrete plans for the third season but that Henry would have to have gone either one way or the other eventually. He was always going to either face more rejection and eventually fully accept his life for what it was or he was going to finally make it but doing so would mean he could only appear as a guest star because in Party Down, “if anybody enjoys too much success, they're not on the show anymore” (Sepinwall).
This novel is about the horrific events that took place towards Levi and other captive jewish members over a ten month period at Ka-Be in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Throughout the autobiography, Levi states graphic accounts on everything that happen to him. In the beginning, Levi was captured by the Fascist Militia on December 13, 1943, at the age of 24. Shortly after being captured, Levi starts to endure all the hardships of being a jewish prisoner at a nazi concentration camp. He writes about the poor living conditions, the painful, back breaking work he was forced to do, and the people he encounters. As he becomes wiser to the system, Levi realizes intelligence is the key to his freedom. Levi says he was "too civilized" and "thinks too much," (103) to work in the fields and will eventually end in selections. Because Levi was intellectual, he thought before he acted as oppose to acting before he thinks like most of the other prisoners he was with. For this reason, he got a specialty job working in a laboratory as oppose to working on the fields. It is for his brilliance and his...
Karl Stern is an artistic, lanky, beat up, Jewish fourteen year-old boy whose only refuge is drawing cartoons for his younger sister and himself. All that changes in an instant when he meets the boxer, Max Schmeling in his father’s art gallery. In exchange for a painting, Karl will receive lessons from the world renowned fighter and national German hero. Suddenly he has a purpose: train to become a boxing legend. As the years go by and he gets stronger, both physically and emotionally, so does the hatred for the Jews in Germany. This new generation of anti-Semitism starts when Karl gets expelled from school and grows until his family is forced to live in Mr. Stern’s gallery. Though the Stern’s have never set foot into a synagogue and do not consider themselves “Jewish”, they are still subjects to this kind of anti-Semitism. They try to make the best of it, but Karl can see how much it affects his family. His mother is getting moodier by the day, his sister, Hildy, hates herself because of her dark hair and “Jewish” nose and his father is printing illegal documents for some secret buyers. On Kristallnacht the gallery is broken into and the family is torn apart. Karl must now comfort his sister and search for his injured father and his mother. With the help of some of exceptional people, he manages to get over these many obstacles and make his way to America.
The father and son relationship is one of the most important aspects through the youth of a young man. In Shakespeare’s play Henry IV, he portrays the concept of having "two fathers". King Henry is Hal’s natural father, and Falstaff is Hal’s moral father. Hal must weigh the pros and cons of each father to decide which model he will emulate. Falstaff, who is actually Hal’s close friend, attempts to pull Hal into the life of crime, but he refuses.
In the second half of the film, it is now March 13th, 1943, and the liquidation of the ghetto is taking place. Many Jews are unjustly killed as they are pulled from their houses or did not co-operate. Those who tried to hide are found and kill...
An estimated six million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust, and many were thought to have survived due to chance. Vladek in Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel, Maus, is one of the few Jewish people to survive the Holocaust. Though Vladek’s luck was an essential factor, his resourcefulness and quick-thinking were the key to his survival. Vladek’s ability to save for the times ahead, to find employment, and to negotiate, all resulted in the Vladek’s remarkable survival of the Holocaust. Therefore, people who survived the Holocaust were primarily the resourceful ones, not the ones who were chosen at random.
Henry Johnson the stable boy who works for Dr. Trescott, managing the stable and taking care of the horses. Henry’s face gets severely burned saving Jimmy from a the fire at Trescott’s house. With his face covered in burns, Henry becomes faceless with no identity, and no one to recognize him as the person he was. On page 95 when you have the men of the town they talk about Henry and how he becomes faceless. “How would you like to be with no face” meaning Henry no longer has an identity in the town. He becomes the town outcast, the reject the monster.
Henry suffers from retrograde amnesia due to internal bleeding in the part of the brain that controls memory. This causes him to forget completely everything he ever learned. His entire life is forgotten and he has to basically relearn who he was, only to find he didn’t like who he was and that he didn’t want to be that person. He starts to pay more attention to his daughter and his wife and starts to spend more time with them.
Hermanns, William. The Holocaust: From a Survivor of Verdun, New York, NY, Harper and Row
Thousands of people were sent to concentration camps during World War Two, including Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel. Many who were sent to the concentration camps did not survive but those who did tried to either forgot the horrific events that took place or went on to tell their personal experiences to the rest of the world. Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi wrote memoirs on their time spent in the camps of Auschwitz; these memoirs are called ‘Night’ and ‘Survival in Auschwitz’. These memoirs contain similarities of what it was like for a Jew to be in a concentration camp but also portray differences in how each endured the daily atrocities of that around them. Similarities between Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi’s memoirs can be seen in the proceedings that
Henry’s character is introduced in the movie when his cousin Mark, who is just about the same age as him, suddenly comes to stay with their family because his father had to go away on business. Mark’s mother recently passed away right in front of his eyes and he was still dealing with the repercussions of it all. Dealing with feelings of loneliness, Mark immediately developed a close bond with Henry. He found Henry to be adventurous and nice but was not aware of who Henry really was and what he was experiencing. At first, Henry seemed like a decent young boy who enjoyed experimenting with new things. On ...