Savannah Walker 1. “Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz: This book is about a young teenager boy who survives 10 concentration camps. He is the only one out of his family that survived. The book reminds me of Eli Wiesel who has no family at the end of the Holocaust.
"Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave-Labor Camp" by Christopher Browning is a powerful and very moving book that tells the story of Jewish survivors of the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II. The book is based on interviews and experiences that Browning conducted with the survivors in the 1990s, and he provides a vivid and harrowing account of their experiences and trauma. Christopher Browning’s goal in writing the novel was to capture the essence of what happened to the survivors during the Holocaust from the perspective of people who were actually there to witness and experience it. He used the words of the survivors, dates, events, and knowledge of all his research to make an accurate and reliable depiction
On April 21st, 1930, Ohio State Penitentiary, which was built in Ohio’s capital, Columbus, in 1834, caught fire and killed hundreds of inmates. When returning for the night, they discovered that a fire was started within cell blocks G and H. It was only after the fire had been doused, that everyone had realized that the scaffolding, on the outside walls of those cell blocks, was what had caught fire. At the time, the prison was known for its poor conditions. The prison was only meant to hold 1,500 people, but at the time of the fire, it was housing 4,300 inmates. This disaster goes down in history as the worst fire at any prison in the United States.
It is January of 1704. As John Demos puts it, “A night of winter, a night of want, night of war.” The Iroquoi Indians and French invade an English frontier capturing or killing many of its inhabitants. This is the night that starts the ripple effect that John Demos traces in his book, The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. Of the many that were captured by the Kahnawake Indians, Revered John Williams, a minister from Deerfield and his large family were among them.
Have you ever thought about how it would feel to be in a concentration camp during the Holocaust? The book Night written by Elie Wiesel, it is about a 16 year old named Eliezer. He is a Holocaust survivor and tells about his time in the concentration camps. It is in first person about how he felt, what he saw and what had happened to him. Hope is good until you lose it.
The book, Night, is very interesting. It shows a young boys’ point-of-view during the Holocaust, and taken from his home to a concentration camp. He watches people die, and eventually has to watch his father die. This is a horribly traumatic experience. Eliezer Wiesel is the main character in this book.
In Prisoner B-3078 by Alan Gratz, Yanek is a young boy who gets captured by Nazis and brought to the holocaust. As months come he gets transported to different concentration camps daily. Yanek finds ways to survive the holocaust, using courage, determination, and being fortunate. These traits help him succeed in his main goal, survival.
In Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, the overall theme is to stay determined in times of trouble. To explain in more detail, when Yanek has just gone face to face with Birkenau gas chambers, he thinks to himself, ¨I had been ready to die. But when water came out of those showers, not gas, it was like I was born again. I had survived, and I would keep surviving¨ (Gratz 130). This quote shows the theme, because after believing he was going to die, and surviving that experience, this strength allows him to keep motivation.
Night, by Elie Wiesel: Summer Camp One of the most horrific genocides in the history of mankind, the Holocaust is an event where over eleven million people are murdered, and countless lives are changed. When the Nazis took power in 1933, Jews constituted less than 1% of the German population. Several countries, including Germany, France, and Austria, prohibit denying the Holocaust occurred. In the memoir Night Elie undergoes drastic physical, emotional, and spiritual changes throughout his ordeal as a prisoner during the Holocaust.
The book is filled with accounts of beatings, torture, and murder. They were forced to work long hours under inhuman conditions and given very little food “the construction one, where twelve hours a day I hauled heavy slabs of stone” (70). They were often subjected to abuse from the SS officers, physically and emotionally, who enjoyed seeing them suffer. The guards gave awful punishments like whipping “I no longer felt anything except the lashes of the whip.” (65) and even hanging ”Then the entire camp, block after block, filed past the hanged boy” (71).
There are many literary works based on World War II and the Holocaust, including one we read this semester: Tadeusz Borowski's “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen”. However, it is not told from the typical perspective. We typically only see stories from the Jewish Holocaust victims, but this story is told by a different type of prisoner. The narrator is part of the group who were forced to collaborate with the Nazis. His job was to unload the new prisoners from the trains, and as a reward, he was allowed to loot the cars and keep any food they found.
So far Night by Elie Wiesel has affected me on a emotional level. I knew about the harsh treatment of Jews and how they were blamed for everything wrong that happened, but I wasn’t aware of the severity. This book is dissimilar to The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank because it includes a little boys views from inside the camp. It really made me realize the harsh conditions of the Jews as Moché the Beadle explained,“Babies were thrown into the air and the machine gunners used them as targets” (Wiesel 16). Babies are born with innocence and pure intentions, no one deserves to die.
Michael was my favorite book I have ever read. Michael Vey has a superpower, which is like the power of Thor, lightning. These weird powers come into his life and take a turn for the worse. He meets some new friends along the way and enemies to fight for what is right, and become the hero he has always wanted to be. Michael sticks up for himself, is loyal to his friends and fight against evil.
In contrast, the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park has also endured negative impacts because of the tourism in the area. As highlighted by Dyer (2003), the negative impacts include degradation, exploitation, minimal tourist interaction, and misrepresentation of culture. Degradation refers to environmental and socio-cultural; Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park is "a camping hotspot" as it was in close promixity to Cairns, luscious rainforests, and it was in the same area with coastal dune systems, to be accessed in 4WD (Lopatich, 2009). From the tours in the rainforests and along the coast, the dune system has weathered from tourists walking on the vegetation. The rainforest is in fact, endangered, and is "very susceptible to ... fire" (ibid).
The story starts off in London, England, 1857 with a thief fresh from his new heist with the law right behind his tail. All of the sudden he falls through a glass roof and onto a grinding machine, damaging his entire body. He doesn’t die because a young doctor by the name of Doctor Robert Farcett is trying to make a name for him in the medical field, so he sees this opportunity to save a man from an inch away from death and goes for it. He succeeds and the thief was saved and sent to trial, and was convicted for theft with a sentence of four years, and was thus given the name he would be recognized by for the next four years: Prisoner 493. During his time in prison Doctor Farcett continued to work on him, and because it was a miracle that
