Elli's I Have Lived A Thousand Years

If you were in the main protagonists, Elli, shows and instead of your mom being paralyzed and dying it was your friend, would you help them the way Elli helped her mom or would you throw them out and let the SS guards kill him or her? In all the twists and turns of Elli and her family's life or death situations in the Holocaust they stay optimistic about surviving and telling their story of their lives. Sadly not everyone in her family made it but the people who did were reunited in the end. Throughout the whole book it left you on the edge of your seat wondering what would happen next and what Elli would do. No one ever thought that Elli would attack one of the SS guards. Do you think you could find light in the darkness in this kind of situation?

“I was not going to do it! Let them kill me, I was not going to let them take my new bike! I had not even ridden it yet. I had

The author uses the first person point of view of Elli. The book I Have Lives A Thousand Years was written in 1997 from a girl who lived almost all her life in the Holocaust. She was thirteen years old when the Nazis came and took the Jews from her house and her town and school and took them to camps. This choice impacted the book by showing that it wasn't just a bunch of facts about the Holocaust thrown together to make a book; it was actually someone's journal, and that someone actually had to go through that and they wrote in their journal every day or almost everyday what happened and how everyone reacted. The narrative voice of all books are very important to the understand of a book. But in a Holocaust book the narrative voice is very important because it tells you if it's someone's life story or just someone taking a bunch of facts that they found on the internet and put them all together to make it sound it good as a book and publish