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Exposition: Yanek is a young boy who lives with his family, his dad, and  mom, and his uncle Moshe. They live in Krakow, Poland and soon the Nazi’s invaded their home town and set rules and curfews, if you didn’t follow them you would be killed. Sometimes, the Nazi’s would pick Jews off the street to send to factories.

Inciting Incident: Yanek’s parents are soon taken to a concentration camp and they never meet again. Soon all the Jews are sent to concentration camps and Yanek is one of the last Jews to be sent to a concentration camp called Plazow.

Rising Action: He faces the wrath of the concentration camps. Yanek and the other Jews are transferred to other concentration camps.

Resolution: Yanek is then sent to Munich, where he and the other Jews are rescued by the Americans. Yanek finds out that he still has some family left, his cousin. Yanek moves to the U.S. with a new name, Jacob.

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Essential Question: Why do we feel the need to belong?

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Essential Question: Why do we feel the need to belong?

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We feel the need to belong because you get a sense of validation and you can connect your feelings with other people when part of a group. When you are excluded from a group, it hurts because you feel isolated which can cause depression and anxiety because of the lack of communication between people. You feel as if you are not good enough because you do not have the ability to relate or connect with others and feel as happy as you could be with other people. For example, in Prisoner B-3087 the Nazis are ruling over the Jews and the main character, Yanek and his family have been sent to different concentration camps. Later, he learns that all his family members are killed and he needs to learn to survive by himself. He feels a sense of loneliness in the concentration camps. After the war was over, the Jews were freed and Yanek found out that he still had some family left. He finally felt a sense of belonging, “I had a family - a cousin still. Family. I wasn’t alone” (Gratz 254).

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In order to survive, you had to work and do as told, survive through all the obstacles. Yanek experienced this, one day the Nazi's made the Jews work so hard to see who was still "strong" enough. Yanek worked so hard but felt like collapsing, but in order to move on the Nazi's would pick the strongest people to work and kill all the weak ones. After working a whole day and moving bricks, he forced himself up and showed the Nazis and they said "'He can work" (Gratz 202).

Yanek made a projector to entertain his family, “It was a slide projector I’d made by mounting a lightbulb on a piece of wood and positioning wooden plates with lenses from magnifying glasses in front of it” (Gratz 4). This shows how Yanek is such a smart young boy. He shows his intelligence throughout the book as he uses his brain to survive till the end.

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External: Man vs. Society - Yanek vs The Nazi soldiers

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During Yanek’s life at camp, he became one of the strongest members of the camp. He was picked multiple times to do extra work because of his strength. “Just looking around at the the others the Nazis had chosen, I could tell we were the strongest men…”(Gratz 96).