Everyone has an imagination, the students reading “Under A War Torn-sky should too. When students are reading the novel “Under A War-Torn Sky” by L.M. Elliott their imagination may run with them in many different places. They might Picture that they are only 19 years old and they’re the youngest person on their Air Force. They’ve been preparing for their 15th mission for a while. When it's finally their time, and they’re cruising thru the sky heading to Germany. Then, all of a sudden BOOM, their plane was shot down by the Nazi’s. This exact thing happened to Henry Forester, Henry is just a character, he isn't real. Although some of the characters in “Under a War Torn Sky” may not be real, some of the events are real. The novel takes place in 1944 when one of the world's biggest wars, World War II, is taking place.The Nazis were ran by Hitler, Hitler and the Nazis were all real people. The Nazis were a group of people who were very racist and very auditory or they’re opinions of certain things, to show how they felt they often acted brutally. …show more content…
In the novel Henry’s Air Force was on their way to Germany, when the Nazis shot their plane down. Many soldiers got hurt and so did Henry. The Nazis didn’t exactly shoot down Henry’s plane. But, they did shoot down many planes and people in World War II. Approximately 11 million people were killed by the Nazis. Every good story has an antagonist and a protagonist. The Nazis were an example of an antagonist in the story. The Nazis helped develop the plot of the story, without the Nazis, Henry wouldn’t have met the French Resistance to be the protagonist in the story. This allowed the story to have both good guys and bad guys and throughout all the conflict Henry was in the middle of it. Henry has to go through many people and places in order to find his way back home. In order for him to have able to accomplish this goal, he has to acquire help from the French Resistance. The people from the French Resistance were real and they did help allied soldiers make their way back home. The French Resistance was made up of common civilians and had to risk being caught and they had to put their families at risk. Henry describes that he was “handled, just like a hot potato”. The French Resistance played a major role during the event in World War II. One thing in which they helped was give vital intelligence reports to the Britannic government. The author adding the French Resistance to the novel makes Henry seem like a real person because many American Soldiers had to get help from the french resistance. This adds on to the elements of a real person because you get Henry’s perspective of the French Resistance and how they helped people during World War II. Food had been rationed in England, which happened in real life during that time.
Meat went to the American and British fliers first. In the novel there was a boy who kept asking fliers for gum because he was hungry. Gum helped trick civilian stomachs to stop rumbling. Henry had already knew what it was like to be hungry as a child. After the stock market crashed which also really happened during that time, and it had crushed farm prices, Henry ate nothing but boiled eggs and bread. His mother and father had a difficult time making mortgage payments during the first year of the Depression, which was another real event during that time, which increased unemployment and a quarter of the workforce was without jobs by 1933 and many people became homeless. His father and mother would only kill a chicken for Sunday dinner and only after she had gotten too old to lay eggs for them to sell. Henry gave the little boy a stick of
gum. The author uses Henry to tell about the events and to put it in character perspective. The events didn’t really happen as planned, the author expanded the historical event to put it in character perspective to make it more appealing to the readers. By making the story more appealing this attracted the reader's attention and expanded their imagination. The author uses Henry to tell about the events and put it in character perspective. By putting the novel in character perspective, the author made the store appealing to the readers. The author was very creative and instead of creating a biography it created a nonfiction story. Although the novel was fiction the author still allowed some of the events to be realistic. We got to see Henry’s feeling and emotions. The author frequently described the way Henry felt, which was probably how real soldiers felt. By knowing Henry’s feelings and reading his actions it was appealing to the reader and therefore expanded the reader's imagination.
The book took place from 1944 - 1945 on Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald towards the end of World War II.
****Both the movie and the book portray a timeline of events beginning with the start of the Holocaust or the taking of the Jews and concluding with the end of the
and humanity. Wiesel shows how the Jews mistreated and were mistreated with word choice and situational irony. Elie, the main the character in the book, gives the reader a personal perspective of being a Jew during the Holocaust. Being a Jew was difficult since the Nazis not only mistreated them, but also gave them false hope which contributed to their dehumanization.
War changes a person in ways that can never be imagined. Living in a war as well as fighting in one is not an experience witnessed in everyday life. Seeing people die every time and everywhere you go can be seen as an unpleasant experience for any individual such as Henry. The experiences that Henry had embraced during the Vietnam War have caused him to become an enraged and paranoid being after the war. It has shaped him to become this individual of anxiety and with no emotions. The narrator says:
The Holocaust took place during World War II, when Adolf Hitler became the dictator of Germany in 1933. Would your identity change, if you were put through an epidemic. In the first section of the book, Eliezer Wiesel is a twelve year old boy who studies Judaism, but he wants to study Kabbalah, Wiesel described himself as faithful religious man. However, throughout Night, the evolution of Wiesel’s religious beliefs, symbolizes the struggle of the Holocaust.
When I initially looked at the title I immediately wondered if this story was being told from the Nazi perspective or a person who had interaction with Nazi. After looking at the front page and reading the title I thought the book was going to be about a a person who was hiding his identity. The front page which contained a black silhouette of person who looks like a kids with the Nazi sign on his shoulder. The shadow of the black silhouette had a star of David on the shoulder. My initial thought was the Nazi was hiding his ancestry. Another thing that caught my eye was the color of the book, which was blood red. Before looking at the back summary or first
The book Then is set in Poland during the period of the Holocaust and Nazis in 1942. The book is about the two orphans, Felix and Zelda, who escaped from a train that travel to a Nazi death camp for Jewish people. They struggled to survive without food or water. They met Genia, a farmer who became their guardian and provided a shelter and kindness to the two children. Felix and Zelda embarked on a terrifying journey to disguise their identity, escape from sinister Nazi soldiers and overcome challenges and suspicions of Genia’s neighbours.
Businesses did whatever they could do to food to produce as much of it as cheaply as possible, adding chemicals to make it taste or look better. Sinclair described how every part of the animal was used, saying that companies used “everything of the pig except the squeal.” This included using the rotten meats, selling them to the public as “Number Three Grade” meats.10 Those who were unfortunate enough to eat the meat were poisoned, including one of the immigrant children in the novel, Kristoforas, who died from a poisoned sausage. Sausage was probably the most dangerous of the meats, because they were the moldy cuts Europe had sold to America, because no one there wanted them, and they were “doused with borax and glycerine” to remove any odor or foul taste. The meats would be in piles on the floor where the dirt laid, the roof leaked, the workers spit, and the rats crawled.12 Workers put poisoned bread by the meat piles to kill off the rats, so in the pile there were the dead rats and their dung.12 All of this including the poisoned bread would become part of the sausages. Not only were the meats bad, but the other foods the immigrant family would buy were doctored with chemicals. Sinclair described the pale-blue milk the immigrant family bought was watered down and was "doctored with formaldehyde,” and that other foods such as tea, coffee, sugar and flour had also been altered. The canned peas they
The Book Thief and Nazi Germany The heavily proclaimed novel “The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak is a great story that can help you understand what living in Nazi Germany was like. Throughout the story, the main character, Liesel goes through many hardships to cope with a new life in a new town and to come to the recognition of what the Nazi party is. Liesel was given up for adoption after her mother gave her away to a new family, who seemed harsh at first, but ended up being the people who taught her all the things she needed to know. Life with the new family didn’t start off good, but the came to love them and her new friend, Rudy.
In the book, Half The Sky, author’s Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn bring to light the oppression of women in the developing world. Anecdotal stories, filled with sadness, anger and hope, collected after years of reporting, depict just a few examples of this global struggle for women. At the end of their book organizations are listed, in alphabetical order, in hopes of creating a starting point for people to further support women in developing countries. With so many organization doing great work to empower women it becomes difficult to decide where money should be distributed. As a grant manager it is important to take a closer look at each of the organizations and their work to better assess where the money should go. However, the
The Holocaust is marked as one of the most horrifying events of the 20th century.The person who was responsible for the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party. The question is, how, and why was Hitler able to do this? The actual truth behind all this is that, Hitler could make the world his, just by using words. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, it tells a story about a young girl growing up when Nazi Germany was invincible. The author explores some very meaningful, yet, controversial themes for the most part of the novel. Out of all themes, he believes that words hold a remarkable power. He explores how words manipulate, divide, and connect people.
The Nazis were these common men, the functionaries as described by Primo Levi, blindly following and believing without thinking for themselves. This blind obedience was a large factor in making the holocaust possible. Both Louis Lowry and Mark Herman explore the theme of Jewish persecution in their stories. However, Number The Stars and Boy in Striped Pyjamas take different approaches towards this theme.
The novel, set in Nazi Germany, begins when nine-year-old Bruno and his family must move from their lovely home in Berlin to a new house in an unfamiliar place called "Out With." Tempted to explore his new environment, Bruno is told that there are certain places that are "Out Of Bounds At All Times And No Exceptions." Unable to fight his adventuresome spirit, however, Bruno ventures forth into the unknown one afternoon.
...Man in the High Castle serves, as a science fiction novel, to make us question our own values and reality. It also implicates the idea of how Nazi ideals would mesh into a contemporary global society and how the practice of hate would pan out in a functioning and stabilized world. Botwinick writes that the study of the Holocaust is invaluable to answering the question of whether or not it could happen again, whether or not humans could again cross the boundaries of “civilized” to “savage.” Dick constructs a reality that is both opposite and necessary to our own, one in which hate and oppression is not only law, but human tendency.
Throughout the book, I had to keep telling myself over and over that the events in the book never really occurred. I was confused because the reality of the 1900's was that Hitler did have a major influence of the people he came into contact with, but then again, the Holocaust was not a major issue in the United States. Most of Hitler's power and abuse was spread throughout Europe rather than the U.S. Another detail of the book that was confusing to understand was that Sandy went against his family to support an Anti-Semitic. The reason this was difficult to understand was because Sandy was always the smart and quiet one, if he had been smart, he wouldn’t have been trapped by Lindbergh's ideas. The book doesn't thoroughly explain how a young boy can be so easily brainwashed, as to go against his