The book “White Rose Black Forest” by Eoin Dempsey is set in the Black Forest in Germany during World War II. The main characters are Franka Gerber and John Lynch. Almost everyone that Franka is close to has been killed by the Nazi’s. One day she stumbled upon an unconscious man in a luftwaffe uniform with two broken legs laying on the ground. She dragged him home and took care of him for the next couple of months. Franka was a part of the White Rose which was a group in Germany that went against the Nazi’s. The situation Franka is in is not ideal and gets her in a lot of trouble. The White Rose is an anti-Nazi group in Germany. In the book Franka Gerber was in it along with her friends Sophie and Hans who died because of it. The White Rose was a real thing that was formed during World War II. The White Rose lasted from 1942-1943. Frankas friends Sophie and Hans were real people. In the book Franka said that someone turned them and Sophie and Hans confessed and they both got killed. It didn't go into that much detail. Sophie and Hans actually did some really risky things. They wrote things like "Down With Hitler", "Hitler Mass Murderer", "freedom", and drew crossed-out swastikas while there were police around. They got caught and arrested and ended up being guillotined. This element of the book was …show more content…
They only read banned books and only listed to banned radio stations. One of the books that John was reading was “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria. The stations that were banned were foreign ones that would state all the bad things happening in Germany. They often listened to Swiss and British stations. All of Erich Marias books were illegal to read in Germany during that time so that is historically accurate. There are also a lot of other banned authors including Karl Marx. The only radio stations allowed were ones that supported the Nazis. This aspect of the book was also historically
Where the Red Fern grows! Billy Colman, our country boy devoted to his dogs, has gone through very tough times to get to where he is now. He has worked very hard for a long time to get his dogs. With his dogs, he had gone hunting many times and had lots of adventures out in the wild. But because of how good his dogs were at hunting, some people were jealous.
In “Woodchucks”, Maxine Kuman describes the problem she has in her back yard with woodchucks. She goes into detail of the idea of killing them without hurting them by “gassing” them. She also had no mercy of the woodchucks when she shot at them. Kuman uses her experience with the woodchucks to explain the situation between the Nazis and the Holocaust victims.
The central historical significance of the book The Hiding Place by Corrie Boom is the Holocaust that took place in 1940 during World War II. The author 's purpose of the book The Hiding Place was to inform you about the horrible times of World War II. The book, The Hiding Place, by Corrie Ten Boom, is about a Dutch watchmaker who has started to hide Jews in her home.
Deciding how we react in moments of triumph represents us at our best or worst. Although we can't control what irrational situations we are placed in, we do have a say in how we react and feel towards those situations. In the novel “The Color of Water” written by James McBride the tone of the passage in chapter four is most definitely anxious. The reason being that the word anxious can mean many things and in this case it does. James is anxious in an excited way because his people finally have a voice and they are realizing that they have rights and that they should be treated no different than non-blacks.
If this book was banned, it would be breaking our constitution, and the first amendment. Yet there are people in government who do not care about this law, as a matter in fact there were 45 democrats in 2014 that supported the repeal of the first amendment. This is seen further in the text, "They are the 'Fahrenheit 451' Democrats. Never before has Congress tampered with the first amendment" (Cruz 1). This text could not be more true, as the book displays a crippled government supporting crippled ideas.
Hardships come in various levels of intensity. Some are easier to bare than others. “Blackberries in June” by Ron Rash hands out a great deal of hardships that one family could hardly take. Jamie, one of the man characters of the story, must navigate through these hardships and figure out what is best for her husband and self. While dealing with an extremely jealous sister-in-law, dream abandonment to help the good of the family, and constant worries that something will happen to Matt, Jamie must decide if this will make or break her.
Loren Eiseley’s descriptive narrative in “How Flowers Changed the World” captures the story of flowers with a flare that it is eloquently written. For Eiseley, it seems as though he thinks that people walk past and dismiss flowers and their importance in this world. Through his persuasive and informative writing, I find myself thinking the same. Flowers are amazing and arguably the sole reason that man is alive and thriving today. Flowering plants were crucial for the life of man to truly begin.
American Jewish writer, and political activist Elie Wiesel, in his sympathetic speech “The Perils of Indifference” to send a strong message to the audience. As a survivor of the Holocaust, he supports his claim through his speech explaining the dangers of indifference from first hand experience. Specifically in his speech he refers to himself, “A young Jewish boy [..] woke up in a place of eternal infamy called Buchenwald”(par 1).. In addition, Wiesel use of rhetorical questions is for the audience to question or to think about indifference. Wiesel’s purpose is to warn people about indifference in order to “save” our future.
Caleb Roberts POLS 660A Book Review 2 The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior This review is a study of the central points and arguments the book intends to make as I understood them to be. Herbert Kaufman’s book, The Forest Ranger:
For as long as writers have written books, people have been wanting to ban them. Before the printing press, only a few handwritten copies of each book existed. If leaders deemed a book ‘inappropriate’ or ‘undesirable’, they burned the few copies that existed, ensuring people would no longer read the knowledge
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter takes place in a Puritan town in the 1600’s. In his book Hester Prynne, who is the protagonist, commits adultery and out of it came a baby and a scarlet letter which she has to wear for the rest of her life. The person she committed adultery with was Reverend Dimmesdale, yet only Hester, Pearl (Her child), Roger Chillingworth
Today we as humans are always so quick to judge others and give titles, there is always a need to have “good guy” and along comes a “bad guy.” When in all reality we are all just trying to be the “good guy” in our own way. Weather it may be morals and religion that make us believe that what we are doing is the right thing to do or simply learning that something is correct based on family, society, and what we are taught to believe is right. We are all always striving to please someone. We as humans who make mistakes shouldn't be so quick to give someone a title based on what we think is right.
The holocaust, the worst act in all of human history was about the Germans tried to exterminate the Jews. Hunger In Ellie Wiesel’s book hunger is a big concept because on page 59 it says “Two cauldrons of soup! Smack in the middle of the road, two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them!
This book should not be banned even though it portrays so many violent moments because it shows us the horrible reality of racial prejudice and discrimination. The Jews had to go through terrible things. For example, Elie “didn’t know that this was the moment in time
Titanic Crossing Genre: Historic Fiction Barbara Williams Copyright: 1995 Pages: 163 Grade: 4-5 Summary: Barbara Williams, novel the Titanic Crossing depicts the story of main character, Albert and his family as they aboard the Titanic in April of 1912 in hopes of returning back to America. Although Alberts family, are not excited about the new adventure, Albert is excited about going back home and the opportunity to explore the enormous ship, the Titanic. The night of the sinking of the Titanic, Albert locates his sister Ginny onto one of the lifeboats that are for women and children. When loading on the lifeboat, Albert is shocked to be informed by the crewmen that his age of thirteen qualifies him as a man, and he is forced to separate