Tuesday 29 May 2012
Blogging Using Criteria
As you begin to blog about Jesper 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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-----Edits For May 25th's "Response For 'Jesper'" From "Lisa" Blog-----
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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. It sickened me to read about how the Nazis would torture their prisoners trying to get information nobody had. Probably one of the parts that sickened me the most was that they would not stop. They would probably continue the torture until the prisoner died. Some ways of torture used were: 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?
Pg.43- "Fire." The guns burst into an explosion of noise. It was odd but I couldn't feel anything. Nothing. I had thought it would hurt. And... I could still hear. I heard laughter. I opened my eyes. The guards were laughing. They were roaring with laughter. For a moment I was terribly confused. Were the others dead? I couldn't tell.
ReplyDeleteMurder and death is a joke to them?!?! "Roaring with laughter". How could this be funny to anybody? How twisted to you have to be to enjoy the pain and suffering of others? Those jews and resistance members have family and friends. They are apart of a community that will miss them. But then again what's another human life? You have already taken so many away, whats one more? It's like eating candy too much candy, you feel terribly ill but whats one more going to do? Human life can not be equated to a number. Your life has to be in your control, how would you feel if you could not make a simple decision like how much food you are going to eat? I am wondering what the Nazis used to justify mass murder. Sure the jews had a lot of the businesses but who's fault was that? Would it be bad working in a jewish store? No it would not. If I worked in a toy store with a jewish manager maybe the merchandise would be different but thats about it. If you are so concerned about bring home food for you family maybe you should put your differences aside and work. I am appalled by what happened in this part of the book. Those were INNOCENT people you just killed, think about what kind of person your actions make of you.
Powerful passage Livee, as it portrays how brutal and insensitive the Nazis had become. This is what bullies do on a playground - torment and taunt just to see the fear in the eyes of their victim. As the movie stated in Freedom Writers Hitler was the biggest bully the world has ever seen.
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