The book thief- A-Ha moment

In the book The book thief by Markus Zusak Leisel realizes a lot of things. She realizes that not all Jews are bad, or not even that, that jews aren't bad at all. The only reason she said that was because of all the things people would say about them. When her foster dad starts hiding a Jew she's worried, but then she gets to know him. She figures out his name is Max and that he can't read. She ends up helping him and starts building this friendship with him. That's when she realizes that Jews aren't bad at all, they're the same as any other human and they are also not so different. In the book it states," Max looked so lonely, Liesel swallowed. And she walked over and hugged him for the first time. "Thanks, Max." This is showing that Leisel still treats him the same way as other people and only because he is a Jew he is no different and she wouldn't mind giving him a hug like she would to her foster parents. 

Anne Frank

Some problems that Anne had faced was that she had to live in a attic for years and she barely had enough food for her family. She couldn't go outside or look out the window for any reason at all, no fresh air and no friends to see. She was always optimistic which was really good, especially for her age. She also had to be quiet at a certain time because they were afraid they would catch them and take them to a camp. She had lost friends and family members, I can also relate to this because I had a few family members and friends pass away.

Question 12

I think that the reason some people were bystanders was because they were scared to stand up and be up standers. The reason I think that is because since the Nazis were taking over they can kinda do anything they wanted to. The thing that I think people were up standers was because they actually new what hitter was doing was really bad and they needed to do something and they also new that they couldn't just sit there and watch that happen to people. I think I would have probably been an up standers even though I would probably get killed I wouldn't care because I've done what was right and I think a lot of the People would have appreciated that.

The Book Thief

The main character in this book is Liesle. She's an orphanage who was taken my her foster parents. What I like about Liesle is that she has a lot of spirit I'll say. Since she can't read her foster dad try's to help her so she can learn and in my opinion be a little bit more educated. Liesle has this great way of seeing things I'll say. She ends up stealing a book from the fire the Nazis did for all I think Jewish books. She also has a kind heart which I saw when Hans her foster dad took in a Jewish man since his father saved his life. She ends up helping him read and write and spell all these words. At the same time she was teaching someone and she was also becoming a bit more wiser. 

Costa Rica

     

I would really love to go to Costa Rica! It looks like a magical place, it's so beautiful and looks amazing. When I see pictures of it I just really hope I can go there sometime. I would love to see all the waterfalls, that's one reason I would really want to go there. I would love to try other stuff like their food. I think if I were to go I would have an amazing time so I'm planning on it. 

Compare and contrast

In the book Backlash and Out of my mind there was a few similarities and some differences. Some similarities I saw was that in backlash Lara gets bullied ten times more than others kids which to me she gets treated differently and in the book Kut of my mind Melody gets treated differently because of her disability. Since they both get treated differently they end up having a ruff life, Lara because she gets picked about her weight, people try to "catfish" her which was her best friend and also people somewhat threatened her before. Melody had a ruff life because she couldn't do things like all the other kids for example walk, talk, eat, shower herself or even simple things. At school she ends up being in this team but once the team didn't tell her about the flight things went wrong. Some differences I saw was that Lara had her former best friend and her best friends mom ruin her life and Melody just had person problems that made her life harder than everyone else.  That's what I noticed but I also love both books they all have this amazing "story" and I think that everyone can learn something from both books.

Out of my mind.

In the book Out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper the one problem is that the girl melody has this sort of problem she has to deal with her whole life. She has a photographic memory. She can't talk,walk, write, feed her self or any of those things. She's like the smartest one in her school but no one knows that, even teachers and students think she's not capable of learning when really she is. I really don't like that because you're supposed to help the students try to be successful no matter what and even when the teachers think you aren't very capable of learning, what does that prove to melody. Been the doctors can't really "fix" melody or even try to understand her. In the text it states, " None of them can fix me, so I usually ignore them and act like the retard person they think I am." I really like how she said this because it's like she's saying since they can't help me, why should I try to cooperate with them when all they think is that I'm a retard. I just really love how that was said. This also showed that even the people that can help her, they don't because they think she's a "retard" I'm her own word.