Summary: "The Cage" by Ruth Minsky Sender is a book about a teenage girl who was separated from her mother and brothers when the nazis captured them and sent them to a concentration camp. While she was in the concentration camp, she got sick and one of the Nazi guards took her to a hospital, but they had to go througgh several hospitals because they didn't take jews. After her operation, the doctor had to teach her how to write with her left hand because she couldn't write with her right hand. A russian commander helped her out by giving her food and baths, and she gave her a job that wasn't as hard as the other "prisoners" had. She lived off her mother's quote, "When there is life, there is hope." She believed that and she got through the
hard times. This story really proved that your chance of survival is higher as your will for survival increases. Favorite Character: My favorite character was Riva. After reading this book how could it not be. She was the best. She was the hero to her younger siblings even through tough times. When Riva was told that she and the boys will be split up, but she recalled her mother's words to stay together and take care of each other. She fought the law to keep them together. She was tough and made it through the holocaust. She went through her family separating and her mother, and she still managed. Favorite Part: My favorite part was the end. The whole book was despair, but the ending had a nice feeling. She was free at last. Riva was happy, but was still missing a huge part of her. It was proof that anyone can do it. It was a good ending, but I was sad to see the book go. I was happy for Riva and her siblings. After all that work they finally made it. Opinion: I thought this book was great. It delivered great messages of positivity towards the end. It reflected on things many people don’t want to reflect on, but it was good. It was a really well-written story and made me feel as if I was with the characters. I felt there pain to a small fraction. It was a great book and everyone at one point in their life should read it.
I am reading a novel by Alan Gratz. It is called Prisoner B-3087, and it is based on a true story! Prisoner B-3087 is about a kid who gets sent off to be a slave by the Nazis (Yanek). Yanek is all by himself in World War 2, no one to lean on, and no one to ask for help. I can not explain in words how happy yanek is to be alive. Yanek is starving, and thirsty, but he does not know how much time he has. Does yanek have what it take to make it through without losing his will to live, and his sense of who he really is inside. You are going to have to read Prisoner B-3087 to find out if he really has it in him. I recommend the book to all kids and parent 11 to 100 it is a great story. You will love it so much that you will not put the book down.
Have you ever thought to yourself “I have a terrible life”? If you have, you most likely have not experienced something as abhorrent as Misha Pilsudski did. He led a simple life in germany, stealing bread and running. However, everything changed in the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He gets sent to ghetto where he lives for over a year, until the Nazis come to take them to the camps. He ends up losing his newly found sister, and soon finds himself on a farm.
The main character in this story is a Jewish girl named Alicia. When the book starts she is ten years old, she lives in the Polish town of Buczacz with her four brothers, Moshe, Zachary, Bunio, and Herzl, and her mother and father. The Holocaust experience began subtly at first when the Russians began to occupy Buczacz. When her brother Moshe was killed at a “ Boys School” in Russia and her father was gathered up by German authorities, the reality of the whole situation quickly became very real. Her father was taken away shortly after the Russians had moved out and the Germans began to occupy Buczacz.
Throughout the book, apart from describing her experiences of living in Auschwitz, Livia Bitton-Jackson focuses on presenting certain ideas to the reader. The three main themes are: hope; taking risks; and growing up.
The short documentary video “Prisoners of Silence” focuses on neurodevelopmental disorders with a clear emphasis on autism. It further delves into the rather controversial method of treatment for autism known as facilitated communication, which was first developed in the early 1990s. The video follows the introduction and ultimately the downfall of such a treatment as controversy quickly ensues after a series of sexual abuse cases and ample scientific evidence are produced.
... within the prison society. The author uses the book to help women in the prison society and outside the enclosed walls find themselves.
John Cage took a simple approach to music. While Cage believed that music can merely be found anywhere and within any sound, traditionally, music remains described as the art of arranging tones or sounds in a way that produces a composition having unity and continuity (Merriam-Webster). John Cage had a Zen Buddhism philosophy of music, meaning music is everywhere and anything can be interpreted as such (House of Solitude). However, I believe music is only the intentional arrangement of sounds.
An adaptation from the book Sala’s Gift by Ann Kirschner, and based on a true account during the calamitous holocaust; Letters to Sala is an amazing story of a young girl's survival during wartime-Germany. In the span of five years, taking place in seven Nazi labor camps, and over 350 hidden letters written by this child. Sala Garncarz Kirschner kept her secret for over 50 years, concealing her immensely painful history in a Spill and Spell box. Everything changes when 67-year-old Sala reveals the cache to her own grown daughter, Ann, in 1991, as she prepared herself for triple bypass surgery. For nearly 50 years, she had shielded her 3 children from her Holocaust years; never talking about her Polish-Jewish family’s experiences during World
Schwartz, Leslie. Surviving the hell of Auschwitz and Dachau: a teenage struggle toward freedom from hatred.. S.l.: Lit Verlag, 2013. Print.
Johannsen Zoe. “I will survive: one girls life in a Nazi death camp.” (2013). Web. 5 Dec. 2013.
John Cage is a modern American composer who is probably the most controversial musician to ever live. Born in 1912 in Los Angeles, California, no one, not even Cage himself, thought he would become a composer. But he did have desires to create at a young age. He used these desires to later make some of the most revolutionary music of the century. But how did Cage begin writing music at all? What is so revolutionary about his music?
Prisoners and Jews taken during the war were forcibly relocated to areas with “no prepared lodging or sanitary facilities and little food for them” (Tucker). Often said the people were simply being held prisoner, many of them died; some from the brutality of the German soldiers and others through methods for mass killing (Tucker). The labor camps in the novel are based off of this concept; people being taken to an area with poor treatment and then being killed. Towards the beginning of the novel, June believes students who fail the trial go to labor camps and are never seen again (Lu 8). Later in the novel, Day enlightens June about the labor camps by telling her “the only labor camps are the morgues in hospital basements” (Lu 205). In both the labor camps featured in Legend and World War II prison camps, the people are told they are being taken away when in reality they are killed. Furthermore, in the Nazi Germany prison camps the people were living in poor conditions up until their death, similar to the individuals in the novel who were experimented on for the benefit of the military. The portrayal of labor camps as similar to wartime prison camps points out the brutality of the government towards its citizens, as well as, the way leaders tell lies to cover their unethical
...n prisoner by mankind and thrown in the jail cell of her home. Laura is a chained by the world of male dominance and the inferiority that it bestows on women. She is guilty of crimes against her family and against herself. Laura cannot choose to live a life for her children and her husband because she would smother her spirit. The protagonist also cannot choose to live her life the way that she desires because it is a crime against the patriarchy. Accepting neither life, Laura leaves her husband and children, forgoing a room of her own to live not as a mother, a wife, or an artist, but as herself.
Society has redefined the role of woman by their works thru poetry that has changed their life
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.