By Leon Leyson
Prompt:
- Describe what was either believable or unbelievable about your reading. Defend your opinion.
- Do any of the characters feeling change as you’ve read? Explain why or why not.
- Describe what was either believable or unbelievable about your reading. Defend your opinion.
- Do any of the characters feeling change as you’ve read? Explain why or why not.
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As I was reading The Boy in the Wooden Box I thought that it was unbelievable how they treated Jewish people. Through the whole time I was reading I was always thinking "how could human beings be so mean to other human beings, just because of their race?" I never really understood the point of basing people on their religion, I thought it was really stupid. Just made no sense at all to me.
In the book German soldiers were to beat Jews if they just saw them walking down the street, and the worst part is because it was for the heck of it. There was also new laws like Jews were had to be wearing arm bands, saying that they were Jewish. Jewish people were also fired from their jobs, but not because they were bad workers, but because they were Jewish. I think it is unbelievable how our World used to judge people based on their religion. The Boy in the Wooden Box has shown me that more in depth.
The main character, well actually the author, Leon does change his feelings during his childhood a lot. In the beginning he portrays his feelings about German people, and that they are negative from his experiences. Then just in the next twenty pages his thoughts differ from the beginning, a lot. He gets more negative, by saying all the bad stuff they did to the Jewish people. I personally agree that what the Germans did was horrible. He would also go against what the Germans said to do. Like he would sit on a park bench, Jews were not supposed to do that. He never got caught because he did not look or dress Jewish.
In the book German soldiers were to beat Jews if they just saw them walking down the street, and the worst part is because it was for the heck of it. There was also new laws like Jews were had to be wearing arm bands, saying that they were Jewish. Jewish people were also fired from their jobs, but not because they were bad workers, but because they were Jewish. I think it is unbelievable how our World used to judge people based on their religion. The Boy in the Wooden Box has shown me that more in depth.
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I feel the same way you do about the way Jewish people were treated. It's like some kind of segregation. In the second paragraph you put "like Jews were had to be". I think that 'were' is an unnecessary word in that sentence. Other than that I enjoyed reading and learning from your blog.
ReplyDeleteNice Blog! I liked how you put your thoughts, as to how you think about the situation. I have to agree with you that there is no point to in judging people because of their religion, or race.
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