Tuesday 22 May 2012
Blogging with criteria
As you begin to blog about Lisa remember to refer to your criteria sheet. Creating a powerful response needs to include a passage or quote that clearly shows persecution occurring in the novel. This quote/passage needs to have made you react strongly in some way - angered, frustrated, devastated, in disbelief. Copy the passage/quote directly from the novel and include the page number it can be found on. Explain your feelings and emotions you felt when reading this and explain why. Go into detail as this will show a deeper level of understanding. A powerful response also needs to included connections. As everyone is now on their second novel, maybe more, you can connect to what you have already read. What is similar or dissimilar about the characters, about the events? Finally, leave off by asking a deep thinking question. What do you wonder about, what questions do you have? It might be about something we have talked about in class and you have been thinking about it, wondering about it? Maybe it is something that has occurred in the novel and you would like to hear others' opinions. This is the time to ask.
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Just Wondering, The Nazi's Are Comeing And She Doesn't Even Have An Emotion. How? They Could Murder Her! Wounld't She Be Scared? I Already Know One Characteristic, And That Is Bravery. Compared To Me I Would Not Have That If The Nazi's Attacked, I'd Probably Go Run And Hide.
ReplyDeleteAs Far As I Am In The Book Now, I Know That She Has Great Friends And A Nice Brother, And If Her Parents Leave, She is The Most Mature, And Should Be Put In Charge. I Hope She Make's It.
@U mad bro?- I was having the same feelings at this part of the book. How could she be emotionless? I to was questioning if I would be able to stay as brave as Lisa, but honestly I think I would run and hide because there is no way I could even think about doing something that dangerous like facing the Nazis.
ReplyDeletePg.16- All those conversations Father and Mother an Stefan had at dinnertime are coming back to me: how the Nazis hate Jewish people and blame then for everything.
ReplyDeleteEverything? Ok well first I want to know what everything is, the jewish people in Europe did not do anything to Germany. I don't recall a band of jewish people coming together to try and overthrow Hitler. I have so many questions right now, being Jewish is just beileving in certain things. Does Hitler hate religion? Well I mean he shouldn't because he went to a Catholic school. What is the difference between Catholics and Jews? They are all humsn beings and they all deserve the same respect as everyone else on this Earth. I also read that Hitler hated Catholics too! I am so confused! I am also confused about the blonde hair and blue eyed "perfect" race. Hitler had brown hair and eyes! Besides once the jews got to the camp they had their heads shaved, I personally think that this was done because the Nazis wanted to send a clear message that all the people in these camps were the same. It didnt matter if you were rich or poor you were a jew and that was the end of that. I haven't gotten to far in Lisa yet but from what I can tell about her is that she is a brave girl. When she went and did the "laundry" for her brother it really made me think that she was very courageous when the soldiers came on the bus. She deserves to be free.
@ Livee
DeleteYou have strong points and say a Jew had blond hair blue eyes would Hitler be nicer or meaner... Do you think that is a factor for shaving there heads?
@Snakeboy216- I do believe in fact this is why they had their heads shaved. Hitler thought all jews were the same, he thought they were ALL terrible people. I think the shaving of the heads is symbolic for Hitler saying you are ALL jews and nothing more. But I do wonder if there was any jews with blonde hair and blue eyes... What would have happened to them?
DeleteThat was my question if you are a Jew would they treat you better or worse for having blond hair blue eyes?
DeletePg. 65- "Remember those two men we met when we followed Stefan?" she asks, still panting and now shaking a little. I nod. "They're both dead." "How?" I ask "What happened?" "They were informed on by a new member of the group. We were suspicious of him, and I've been watching his house- Stefan and I- and yesterday we saw him meet with a Gestapo officer.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe this! Having someone that I thought I could trust betraying my secrets that I thought were safe. What will happen to Stefan and Jesper? Does the Gestapo officer know of all the people who were in the resistance? Is the trader secretly a Gestapo officer himself? I want to know how Stefan and Jesper will handle the situation, will they run or will they stay in Denmark. I think everyone knows a person who has lied to them, I know people like that, and I know that karma will eventually come around and your lie will come out into the open.
@Livee
DeleteI agree with your response. If a new member of the resistance joined and I told them all of our secrets and the new member betrayed us, I don't think I could ever trust anyone anymore. I would never tell any secrets to anyone since I would think they would turn around and sell me out to the Nazis.
Response For "Jesper"
ReplyDeletePage 161
The fellow next door had a foot brace put on his heel. Attached to it was a thin wire. They put the wire around his ankle and slowly tightened it, cutting through his skin first, then the muscle, right to the bone. He's in bad shape. They used the finger breaker on him first.
I had a Wow! Moment here because I couldn't believe they would put Resistance members and Jews through this kind of torture. Heel cutting wire, finger breaking, and other terrible things. These torturous ways of getting information were sometimes used on normal Danes, some didn't know anything. Still, the Nazis wouldn't listen. They were determined to get information and wouldn't listen if the Danes said they didn't know anything. In The Devils Arithmetic, Chaya and her family are put through different types of torture, Gas chambers to make your feel like you are drowning, Starvation, and no room to breath in train cars. This also made me think, why didn't the Nazis listen to the Danes that they didn't know anything? And what would happen if they tortured one of the Resistance members that knew everything to death? Would that Nazi be put to death?
Page 44
ReplyDelete"They machine gunned everyone, the patient, too. It was...it was a woman, a difficult birth, the baby...Niels, he was in there-"
I had a Wow! moment here because I just couldn't believe the Nazis would kill innocent doctors and patients just because they THINK the hospital is holding resistance members and Jews. It also makes me sad to think that the patient was almost a mother, but then the Nazis came and killed her for no reason. In many other persecution books I've read, the Nazis always invade hospitals and kill everyone to make sure injured Jews or resistance members are not being healed. This also makes me think: How would the Nazis feel after killing an innocent lady trying to give birth? I know I probably couldn't live with myself if I killed an entire room of nurses and patients. What made the Nazis think the hospitals were helping the resistance and Jews? Also, how would the Nazis feel if that was their own family they were killing?
pg. 14
ReplyDeleteI had a realy big wow moment when I read this " I don't sleep well at night; it's too dark. We were orderd to put black blinds up on all our windoes so no light would filter through at night. That's so the Allied bombers won't be able to find their targets. They say German patrols shooting at any window with a bit of light showing "
This was a wow moment because I know some little kids like my little cusins like a bit of light when they sleep if there is not a bit of light they cant sleep.
I felt confused when I read this because I get they make it so the Allies cant find there targets but if they Germans are shooting at the windows there will be light from the barel of the gun. And that will show were the buildings are for a couple of seconds.
This was a confusing part too for me. Why put up black blinds to prevent bombers from finding your country if you would shoot at windows which would create light? This is one of the parts strengthening the fact that Hitler may have been a little insane, thinking he could pull of this trick to stop the Allied bombers.
DeleteI think when Lisa followed her borthers she was taking the right measures to know what is happening and when her brothers let her know the will ask if she can goin I had a a thought of will lisa do what Adam did in Daniel's story just go right out in the open and try to kill as many Germans as posible.
ReplyDeleteI hope Lisa makes a smarter choice to slowly do dammage because most likely that will do more dammage in the long run.
Pg. 48 - 49 Stefan is talking very quietly, too quietly. His jaw is clenched; his eyes are blazing. "We don't know that was the Germans," Erik says reasonably. "It could have just been the Danish Nazis." "That's not the point!' Stefan explodes, as he lunges for Erik. I have to grab him and hold him back.
ReplyDelete"Stefan!" I scream, "Stop this. Run Erik" Erik runs. "Goodbye," I shout after him. "Thank's for coming today!" He waves goodbye. "Thank you," he calls to me. And then he shouts. "Calm down Stefan. That temper will get you in trouble someday!" He runs out of sight around the corner. "This temper will get him into some trouble someday," mutters Stefan, and we hurry home.
@ U mad bro?
DeleteHow did you feel when you read this passage
@ U mad bro?
DeleteAlso include if you had a t/t, t/s, or a t/w
Pg.44 "He's trying to say what happened, but the words don't seem to come out... and that was when they burst through into the operating room. They had machine guns. They machine gunned everyone, the patient, too. It was... it was a women , a difficult birth, the baby... Niels, he was in there, four nurses-" "Who? Who?" my mother asks. "Lene Karlson, Tove Albrechets, Hanne Gudmundsen, Ingemor Nielsen all murdered... the mother was killed, too, shot through the head, but I did a Caesarean, saved the baby."
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that these people that may or may not of even treated resistance fighters were killed, shot, murdered. Even the mother shot through the head! Imagine if that was your mom and little brother or sister, I doubt the women even did anything wrong other than being in that hospital at the wrong time. To be Lisa's father and see all this happen and be lucky enough to escape with the baby, he must of been very shocked considering he could barely speak when he arrived home. I am feeling upset, confused, and surprised. I am feeling upset knowing that these 6 people were shot and some shot for no reason. I am confused because I don't know how I would of reacted, would I of ran from the scene or stay and try to help you never know until you are put in the situation and I hope I never am. T-t when we read forbidden city I thought that the massacre of tian a men square was bad but compared to what we are reading and learning about now, it was nothing! What do you think you would have done if you were in this situation.
pg 14
ReplyDelete" I don't sleep well at night; it's too dark." We were ordered to put black blinds up on all our windows so no light would filter through at night." That's so the Allied bombers won't be able to find their targets." They say the German patrols shoot at any window with a bit of light showing."
This scene made me go WOW I was so surprised when I read this. How could you sleep in a pitch black room with German soldiers patrolling outside waiting for someone to turn a light on? If you turned the lights on German soldiers would shot you in at least 2 seconds. Having no light to see must of been horrible you could get injured with out the German soldiers shooting you because you couldn't see in the dark.
Pg 37
ReplyDelete" I lose my balance, lunging right at the soldiers, and throw up all over them. " They start to jump up. "I back away toward the door, saying something. "I think it's "Oh, my God." They're too stunned to do anything but curse."Then I see one staring down at my laundry bag, and he looks up with his eyes burning - but now we're at the stop, and it's funny but about twenty people, other passengers, are suddenly standing between me and them, and someone is pushing me off the car whispering,"Go,go"."
I was so stunned when this happened. I wonder what the soldiers would of done if Lisa didn't run away?Do you think the soldiers are going to look for her because of the papers in her laundry bag? I think Lisa throwing up on the German soldiers was hilarious, but I think the soldiers deserve it for killing millions of innocent people. Lisa was probably frightened out of her mind when that happened because the German soldiers could find her and she could be shot, or her family could all die in seconds.
pg__
ReplyDeleteWhen Susnne shot and killed a man and Lisa and her were trying to find a place to hide it when they lifted up the floor bored and there were a bunch of guns I was shocked.
When this happend I had a t/t because when I watched a movie along time ago called fat camp they would hide junck food under floor bored.
When I did read about the guns under the floor bored I was shocked because what would happen if the little sister got there some how?
When Erik thought that Lisa was playing a joke I thought why would Lisa go that far just to lie?
ReplyDeleteEriks remarks stuned me because if it is this serious of a topic why would you joke about it because this means lif or death.
When they were loading into the ambulences to get to the shore line to get picked up to go to Sweeden I was thinking that one of the drivers would cross them and hand them to athorites.
ReplyDeleteThis caused me to want to keep reading.
I don't sleep well that night; it's to dark. We were ordered to put black blinds up on all our windows so no light would filter through at night. That's so the Allied bombers won't find their targets. They say German patrols shoot at any window with a bit of light showing.
ReplyDeletePg 14
That wowed me. Could you image being in the pitch black scared because your hearing the marching of the soldiers, the sound of shattering glass and guns shooting in the distance. Like I would be scared to death because I don’t want to have so German soldier shoot through my window and kill me, plus I hate the dark . HATE it. And one question what Allie bombers ???? Why would we bomb when we could hurt someone that we are not trying to kill?? Would you bomb and take the risk of taking the life’s of people you don't want to kill????
“ What kind of world do we live in, Jasper?” I echo father's words. “Is it worth living at all?”
ReplyDeletePg:47
That was powerful to me because it astound me for someone to think in such a way. I would never think of the world in that way, but some times I do question what kind of world we live in because it can be cruel and disgustingly mean, so it does bring that question through my mind. I couldn't think of the world that bad to trick my self to thinking that it is not worth living on because if you look pass that meanness it can be a cheerful, beautiful place. And never judge a book by a cover. If you were asked this question what would you answer?? Is it worth living at all???
T/S
I have read headlines and articles or even heard rumours about events that have been going on in not just Canada but the world. Those thing make think of Lisa’s father's question what has the world come to and not only that but why, why, why. And it really sparks my mind into wanting to learn more and why this, this and this are happening.