The Book Thief

The narrator of this book is death. In the beginning he describes how death feels.
This book happens during the holocaust because it talks about a Jewish person. Dathe describes that he likes darkness and chocolate. I think that chocolate in this book might mean blood. One of the reasons why i think that is because blood can be similar to blood in a way.

Do Now 3/29/10

I like to read certain things that are interesting to me. If they make me read something i don't like i wont be into the book as much as I would if I was reading a book i really liked. I am interested in comedy and romantic novels sometimes i like reading horror.

Reflection Journal 85-97

Reading these few pages it makes me realize that sometimes friends could be more trustworthy than family. The betrayal between a father and son or mother and daughter is one of the worst betrayals in my opinion. I rather help out my father and just go ahead and leave him behind because the guilt will eat me alive. I think Elie is a good person for not telling him this " but then i remembered something else: his son had seen him loosing ground, sliding back to the rear of the column." This shows the greediness in his son while his father was jostling and looking for him like crazy.

Reflection Journal 77-84

Throughout this reading Elie is in the infirmary due to his foot swelling. He had to get it operated. The patient that was next to him was described as just skin and bones which meant he was very weak. He began to talk about how they would kill one from the infirmary if a new patient came in due to the small amount of room" don't rejoice to soon, son.Here too there is selection. In fact, more often than outside. Germany has no need of sick Jews ". This made Elie begin to think if the man was just lying or trying to tell Elie to leave so he could save himself. Rumors began that the Red army was getting closer and that the camp would be evacuated except for the infirmary. He thought they would be left to die so he left to talk to his father. He ended up evacuating with the other Jews. His selfishness probably led to his fathers death because he says that after the war he had learned that the jews in the infirmary were freed. His dad would of survived if Elie made him stay .

Vocabulary

Resurrected means to come back from the dead. Its like to be reborn after death. In my opinion i think Elie would want his family to be resurrected to be able to reunite with all his loved ones. He would probably want to spend the time he never spend with them before they died.This picture shows when god came back to life after he was crucified .

vocabulary

Oppressors is like a person who pressures another to do something. Elie's oppressors were the Nazi because they put the Jews in concentration camps and made them work without pay. This picture shows people having to work.

Reflection Journal 66-77

Reading those few pages many events happen. Ellie was separeted from his father and put in another Kommado. A kommado is another building where the jews were put in. He was examined and whoever wasnt strong enough their numbers would be written down they said nothing would happen to them " But ....sir. They did write me down!" After the examination him and his fathers met up somewhere and his father gave him some bread and rubber. They talked for a while that they had both passed the test. The bell rung and he went to his Kommado to go to bed. During this event he talks about how this is already a normal routine for him and that the bells almost control his life. This shows me that his hope of ever getting out of their has slowly faded away.

Reflection journal pgs 54-65

These few pages they begin hanging people. They describe how their faces look with no emotion. He explains how no one had tears in their eyes. "In the Appelpatz, stood a black gallows" that is where the people were killed. What he saw must have traumatized him for life and him writing about it shows how much strength he has for being able to publish this book.

my weekend

My weekend has been great so far. On friday some of my family came and slept over. So on saturday i woke up and we all went downtown because we were having a party at my granpas house. The reason for the party was because his wife's daughter , brother, and her grandsons had all came from d.r for the first time. The party was pretty fun a bunch of my family members went. My dad got drunk it was pretty funny.

Today im going to my little cousins birthday party. The weather today is pretty good so im in a good mood to go out and plus want cake :). Well i hope nothing ruins whats left of my weekend. Im going to have to stop now because i have to go bye !

super powers

If i could have a super power it would be to fly. I would want to fly because i like to see new things. I would travel the world and go to new places. The first place i would go is to the dominican republic to visit my grandmother and my family. I would also go to paris because i always dreamed of going their.
The reason why i would want to fly is because i love to explore and meet new people. Traveling is what i do best so that is another reason why i decided to pick that as the power i would pick.