Spoonface Steinberg Audio Drama Report 1. The author of Spoonface Steinberg is Lee Hall. The significance of this story’s title called Spoonface Steinberg is that Spoonface is this little autistic girl’s name whose face is described as round as a spoon. And if you looked into a spoon you will see a face like hers. 2. There were many important events in this story like in the beginning how Spoonface is describing her love for the opera music. Furthermore, she says that the beautiful opera music sounded sad but it’s the saddest things that fill us up in a big way that no happiness can bring. And she wanted to sing the dying and be free as a little bird floating to heaven. And God made all sad things to make us human. Another important event was when the …show more content…
dad was with another student having an affair and the mother was yelling and arguing with the dad and Spoonface fell over and she started going backwards ,but Spoonface feels she had a special brain ever since she was born.
Mrs. Sputz, the cleaning lady, says that everybody is different and we should be happy in it. Furthermore, being different is who we are. One more important event was when Spoonface’s doctor tells her the story of his mother who was in the concentration camp and she was very brave. Moreover, the poor people there never gave up hope and some of the little children were skinner than her because they didn’t eat enough. He said all this to help Spoonface, little children were braver than anyone else. The human spirit was in the middle. No matter how bad it is that we’re dying, it matters more that we are still alive. Things were drawn in the concentration camps like the butterflies flying to heaven. Another important event was when there was a reference made to a Bible character Job who suffered many difficulties in life similar to Spoonface.
Spoonface talks about finding the sparks inside you and setting them free,and the meaning of that wasn’t that Spoonface was about to die; however, it’s that she is still alive and can make others shine. The end of things is not a problem since there are no real ends just middle because nobody would know it was the end. 3. Spoonface was the most important character in the play because she discovers the true meaning to life even though death was near her. She says to be more focused about the prettier things in life than to focus on being lonely or dying. 4. Personally yes this play gave me a lot to think about and it was more than just entertainment. One of the things I thought about is how I should love myself for who I am and not to fall for trying to become the “size zero supermodel” or whomever in trend because being different is what makes us. Another thing I thought about is that we are given one life and it should not be taken for granted; we must find happiness in the little things that matter the most in the long run rather than wasting time worried about other things. For example, Spoonface was not worried about the end of life because when it would come, she wouldn’t even know so according to her it was always the middle of her life that she was living. This was than an entertaining play because each individual can relate to this story in a personal way.
On their way to the village they are stopped by Nazi soldiers who says they must come with them to be relocated. Hannah is the only one who knows what is actually about to happen. She tries to explain why they must not go with the soldiers but the adults explain that they have no choice. They are loaded in trucks and drove off to a train station where they are gathered into cars with barely any room to breathe. The ride on the train lasts for days and several children and infants do not live
The story begins in “Catfish Row” a small coastal town based on the real town of Cabbage Row in Charleston, South Carolina during the 1920’s. The main protagonist of the story and leading man is Porgy, a disabled beggar man who is known for riding his goat cart around Charleston. Bess is the leading lady of the opera and is in an unhealthy relationship with Crown, a powerful, violent, alcoholic, short-tempered stevedore (dockworker). Act I starts with a lullaby being sang to a small baby by a young mother named Clara, as she sings the men of Catfish Row prepare for a crap game, prior to the game, Crown purchases whisky and Cocaine from the Sportin’ Life, the local drug dealer of the town, during the crap game, Crown who is very drunk kills a local man named Robbins, Crown flees Catfish Row and leaves Bess to fend for herself. Sportin’ Life who is attracted to Bess, he gives her cocaine and asks her to join him in New York, Bess refuses and is now alone, she has no where to go, she is rejected by all of the Catfish Row resident, all except for Porgy who takes her in. A funeral takes place for Robbins, Serena, Robbins’ wife acts very coldly towards Bess when she offers her donation to help pay for Robbins’s funeral cost until Bess explains that she is no longer with Crown, and now lives with Porgy. Soon after, a detective enters and tells Serena that if...
Once again minor Nazi soldiers are to blame for the Holocaust because they didn’t question decisions, they ultimately pulled the trigger, and separated families. It was madame Schachter imagined the fire, fire that was lit by soldiers. It was that fire that soldiers used to murder millions of people. We must never forget these crimes that humanity has committed, we must never make these mistakes
It is almost unimaginable the difficulties victims of the holocaust faced in concentration camps. For starters they were abducted from their homes and shipped to concentration camps in tightly packed cattle cars. Once they made it to a camp, a selection process occurred. The males were separated from the females. Then those who were too young or too old to work were sent to the showers. Once the showers were tightly packed, the Nazi’s would turn on the water and drop in canisters of chemicals that would react with the water and release a deadly gas. Within minutes, everyone in the shower would be dead. The bodies would be hauled out and burned. Those who were not selected to die didn’t fair much better. Terrible living conditions, forced labor, malnourishment, and physical abuse were just a few of the things they had to endure. It was such a dark time. So many invaluable lessons can be learned from the holocaust and from those who survived it. One theme present in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night and Robert Benigni’s film Life is Beautiful is that family can strengthen or hinder one during adversity.
The story contains times when the SS officials would shoot any Jew that was not in their place or call them certain things that would make them feel depressed. One example is when the character Eliezer and hid "block" were marching their way out of Buna and a SS officer had yelled out, "Faster you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!" (Wiesel 85). This is a prime example of dehumanization, having the Jews feel like filthy dogs instead of human beings. The SS had no problem killing a Jew who was not keeping the same pace as the others . "They had orders to shoot anyone who could not sustain the pace. Their fingers on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure. If one of us stopped for a second, a quick shot eliminated the filthy dog"(Wiesel 85)
...urvivors crawling towards me, clawing at my soul. The guilt of the world had been literally placed on my shoulders as I closed the book and reflected on the morbid events I had just read. As the sun set that night, I found no joy in its vastness and splendor, for I was still blinded by the sins of those before me. The sound of my tears crashing to the icy floor sang me to sleep. Just kidding. But seriously, here’s the rest. Upon reading of the narrators’ brief excerpt of his experience, I was overcome with empathy for both the victims and persecutors. The everlasting effect of the holocaust is not only among those who lost families÷, friends,
In this frame Spiegelman displays his anger with being compared to his died brother, Richieu. His aunt poisoned Richieu because she did not want the Nazis to take him to the concentration camps. The only thing his parents had to remember him by was a picture that hung on their bedroom wall.
After school, when scout returns home, she shares with Jem the current event Cecil Jacobs shares with the class about the Holocaust. As she shares, before she is i...
In Schindler’s List, as the Jews in Kraków are forced into the ghetto, a little girl on the street cries out, “Good-bye, Jews,” over and over again. She represents the open hostility often shown the Jews by their countrymen. After all, the little girl did not contain this hatred naturally—she learned it. Through her, Spielberg sends the message that the evil of the “final solution” infected entire communities.
The play’s major conflict is the loneliness experienced by the two elderly sisters, after outliving most of their relatives. The minor conflict is the sisters setting up a tea party for the newspaper boy who is supposed to collect his pay, but instead skips over their house. The sisters also have another minor conflict about the name of a ship from their father’s voyage. Because both sisters are elderly, they cannot exactly remember the ships name or exact details, and both sisters believe their version of the story is the right one. Although it is a short drama narration, Betty Keller depicts the two sisters in great detail, introduces a few conflicts, and with the use of dialogue,
Primo Levi tells the readers the explicit details of the concentration camp Auschwitz, in his memoir, “Survival in Auschwitz.” The way in which the author talks about the camp is as if it is its own society. There is a very different and very specific way of life at the camp; their basic needs are provided for them, but only in the simplest form in order to have a small chance of survival. There is no clean, drinkable water, so instead they drink coffee, they eat soup twice a day, and a small amount of bread (26). There are thousands of diverse people living in the camp, who are forced to live with each other and work in a factory, reducing their self-worth to merely factors of production. The author illustrates the only purpose for the Jews is work; “This camp is a work-camp, in German one says Arbeitslager; all the prisoners, there are about ten thousand, work in a factory which produces a type of rubber called Buna, so th...
Speigelman uses the selected quote to engage the reader and make them aware of how it feels to be raised by Holocaust victims, his dad in particular. In this passage, Speigelman speaks with his friend Pavel about how he has recently been experie...
The train comes squealing to a stop at the station. Hundreds of Jews with all the belongings that they can fit into a suitcase with them exit a tightly packed train car. Immediately they are sorted into two groups. One heads into the heart of the camp to start a life of hard labor. The other goes to ‘disinfecting’. They are happy, cheerful, and suspect nothing as they approach the ‘showers’ for disinfecting. After they have rid themselves of their clothes, jewelry, and belongings, they enter the showers and are immediately locked in. They begin to feel suspicious and afraid, but by now, it is far too late for them to do anything. As the small pellets rain down from the roof, the terror builds to an unspeakable level. They try anything they can think of to get out. Screaming, clawing, praying, or pounding, anything goes. Slowly they begin to die. After about twenty minutes, it is all over. Sadly, this was a daily event at many concentration camps during the Holocaust. At Auschwitz, an occurrence such as this happened multiple times every day. Auschwitz was a designated death factory, killing thousands every day. Although there were many concentration camps during the Holocaust, the most notorious camp was Auschwitz.
The theme of the play has to do with the way that life is an endless cycle. You're born, you have some happy times, you have some bad times, and then you die. As the years pass by, everything seems to change. But all in all there is little change. The sun always rises in the early morning, and sets in the evening. The seasons always rotate like they always have. The birds are always chirping. And there is always somebody that has life a little bit worse than your own.
The treatment of Jews in this time period was abhorrent. The mere fact that Jews were placed into a death camp and exterminated was sufficient. In the film “The boy in the striped pajamas”, a moral issue arises in Germany in World War ll. This film reveals the racial discrimination and prejudice the Jewish people faced. Bruno who is an eight year old boy, is distraught after he learns that he has to leave his current home in Berlin to a new home in Auschwitz due to his father’s promotion to a Nazi commandant of a death camp. Arriving at their new home in Auschwitz, Bruno is lonely with no friends. From his bedroom window, he notices people in stripped pajamas behind a fence. He presumes they are farmers and asks his mother and father if he could meet some new friends on the farm. However, to his disappointment, he is told not to