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Post at least 2 critical questions, connections, or opinions you have from your reading today! Try to connect your learning in this unit to what is happening within your book in order to help craft your responses!

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will bruno help Shmuel get out or give him food and clothes?

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- Why does the author choose to have Bruno refer to Gretel as a hopeless case, and why is this capitalized?
- one thing that I have noticed is that Bruno really doesn't know the reality behind the "pajamas" or what his father really does.

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Where did the twins parents end up going, and why did they get separated? Why do the group of twins have more privileges ?

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I noticed that in the book Hannah mentioned attempting to help a young boy, like what was said to happen in the articles we've read before. I had also noticed that the people who are put in the gas ovens and killed off are said to have been chosen and processed.

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-Something I have noticed in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne is that Bruno is easily influenced by other people.
-Not only that but I also think he takes things  for granted and can act stubborn.

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In the book, Szpilman says that the first time he cried was when the paper said that Paris fell to Germany. When he cried, did he finally realize the situation and how serious it was? What was preventing his tears from falling? Did he feel he had to stay strong for his family or no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't cry?

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In my opinion, this is an amazing book. It is closely centered around the main characters journey, however, it feels as though the author was very aware of the suffering of others. One thing I realized was that this was probably THE Warsaw concentration camp, which was one of the most populated Nazi camps.

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Surviving the Angel of Death shows the experience of a child during the holocaust fairly well, but each person's experience was so different that the text can still be used to stereotype what the experience was like. Eva's idea of what it was like could also be much different than what she experienced, not to say that her interpretation of it wasn't valid, but that she was a young impressionable child and was probably supressing trauma when she wrote the book.

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I think that Bruno's dad is a Gestapo because Bruno and Gretel aren't allowed to know what he does, but he's clearly a Nazi because he says "Heil Hitler" on page 54 and the text states that he has a swastika on his uniform on page 127

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1. Why would Mengele do all these experiments if most of them were not doing anything? Example: Infusing blood of the different genders into the twins bodies.

2. Where did the parents end up? Did the twins ever see them after getting separated from them?

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-Bruno and his family are very spoiled and Bruno is pretty clueless
-Bruno's grandmother does not like what Bruno's father does.

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As I was reading the pianist I wondered why people kept doing as all of the police, Gestapo, and SS officers said. I wondered why people did not rebel, and instead complied.

Another thing that I wondered was why other citizens chose not to help the people in the Ghetto. The narrator had said that many peoples friends who were aryan suddenly seemed to hate Jews and be enemies instead of friends like how they were. Why did they let this happen instead of help the Jews, and try to revolt, or smuggle in resources into the Ghetto?

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this book is really good so far . I wonder what would happen to the wife if he brings her into the neighbors house also I wonder if the father is going to die

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connection: I think that Brunos father is apart of the SS or Gestapo because he said "Heil Hitler" on page 54. Also in the book when Bruno asks who the Jewish people in the stripped clothing are his father says on page 53, "Those people...well, they're not people at all Bruno."

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I noticed that Bruno does not know his fathers job but he respects his father so he thinks his father is doing a good job.

From the evidence in the text (he said heil hitler and had a swastika on his uniform) I can infer that Bruno's father has some semi important role with the Nazis.

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How does Shmuel feel that Bruno wishes that he was like him?

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Why does this book put the holocaust in such a different light?

is this book based on a reality along with fiction or just fiction?

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- I have noticed that the dad doesn't see jewish people as people. He only see's them as mistakes. On page 53 he states "Those people... well, they're not people at all, They're nothing to do with you."

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1. What made them think that if they wanted to change the gender of someone they put the blood of the opposite gender into them to turn them.

What would the other people in their village have thought about the things that happened to these twins and children

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Roles:
1 group member: Make a connection between what you read today with what we have learned about the Holocaust in class. This could be a connection to any specific event, policy, etc.

1 group member: Analyze the protagonist (main character(s)) of the story: What is their story? What is their relationship with other characters in the story?

1 group member: Analyze the setting of this story: What do you know about the setting(s)? How do they impact the story?

1 group member: Analyze the themes of this story. What themes have appeared in the story so far? How has the author developed those themes?

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Most if not all of this book takes place in the Warsaw Ghetto. Wladyslaw Szpilman and all of the other Jewish people were under the constant threat of being killed by Gestapo, SS officers, or even Jewish officers. The setting is incredibly important to the book, as it gives this feeling of being trapped; this feeling that even if they tried, they could not escape the ghetto. For example, a lot of the story towards the end is Wladyslaw trying to leave the ghetto, while people reject him, saying 'they don't want to take in a Jewish person.'

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I think that the Mozes' station in life and their full family influences their perception of the holocaust, as many other families were separated and gasses and Miriam and Eva were never alone. They acknowledge this many times when talking to each other, but the book is still different because of this. Even after the Holocaust, the starting setting of the Mozes' family still affects Eva and Miriam as they both feel alone without a big family or apart from eachother.

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From the reading from today, in my opinion, Hannah should stay isolated from the other people in the camp. I say this because, in the camps, we don't know if someone could be collecting information (Escape plans, hoarding food, etc;) and giving the info to the guards hoping to get better living conditions. However, Hannah talks to the other people in the camp by telling them stories therefore interacting more than she needs to.

Another opinion I have based off of the reading from today is that Gitl plays a sort of mentor role for Hannah. She tells her what to do not in a commanding manner but instead a guide on how to survive. She even went as far to include Hannah in her plan and tell her secrets.

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Two major themes that have shown up a lot in The Pianist are family and survival. Szpilman was extremely caring, especially for his family. He often felt he had to protect all of them so when the Jewish policemen saved him from going to a Death Camp and separated him from his family, he was originally extremely upset. He wanted to be with his family, but the policemen were able to get him to leave. Survival has shown up so much, in survival for yourself, your family, other Jewish people. At first when Szpilman was separated from his family it was really him trying to survive, but he then started to help other Jewish people who needed help, while still helping himself.

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I feel like if this book was made by Miriam's perspective it would have been a lot darker. Eva and Miriam have a very close relationship and care a lot for each other, Eva cares a lot for her family also, she was very worried when her parents and sisters went missing and got separated from each other. The twins got along well with the other twins and were very helpful to each other, they would give advice on how to get food and they also told Eva that potatoes can help cure Miriam's illness.

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The Devil's Arithmetic- Gibson Shay, Theme

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The Devil's Arithmetic- Gibson Shay, Theme

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Throughout the book we see many inaccuracies and misinterpretation's in this depiction of the holocaust. there are also a large amount of inconsistencies in the theme of the book. there is a large amount of joy throughout the book and overtime this develops in a very strange way. during the first few chapters of the book the characters were all laughing and joking around and then all of a sudden the book throws in the concept of the holocaust and people getting killed, then the book immediately jumps to someone proposing, and then the person who proposed is killed. not only that but the concentration camps themselves are very inaccurate because the book glorifies the and makes it seem like there are very few problems with the camps.

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In class, we learned that the Nazis tried to be very clandestine about what was actually happening in the camps. You can see this where Bruno and Gretel talk about how they have no friends, due to their house being in a very remote location. Bruno's house is very close to the Auschwitz death camp where Shmuel is imprisoned.

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Question #2, Narator Alfons Heck: Alfons is currently a 16 year old captain and pilot for the hitler youth. These recent chapter's Increased Alfons power by electing him captain for 6000 kids apart of hitler youth. He doesn't have many character relationships however used to have a flying parter named Rabbit. Rabbit died in war however making Alfons not worry about his relationships with others but the power he holds being a leader of the hitler youth. He also just met Hitler himself and said it to be the best day of his life, on page 120 text states. "I wiped my eyes and as I walked down the steps. I knew that nothing in the rest of my life would ever equal to this day."

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Most of the story takes place inside of a concentration camp, with exceptions being when they were being transported to the camp and in the beginning and end of the story with our main character in a house with family celebrating passover. the author describes how their housing was, how the camps felt as well.

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In the pianist, the main character Szpilman is living in the Warshaw Ghetto. Throughout the book he is forced to move houses, go hungry, and survive off of what he has. Throughout the book he shows great resilience and strength. I think this because as the book goes on, he just rolls with whats happening. He doesn't ever show or act devastated except when he cried once. The book shows this scene in great detail because it's the first time he has ever cried during the war. As he is forced to move houses, and make money off of selling bread and be hungry, he never looses mental stability, and keeps willing himself to live and survive. He is extremely resilient and strong, even during the worst times he continues to survive and get through it all.

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connections in "The Pianist by Władysław Szpilzman"

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connections in "The Pianist by Władysław Szpilzman"

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One connection in this text is how they were sent to work in a multitude of places including things like quarries and building SS barracks.
-Kieran Chi-Burns (2023)

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Throughout the recent readings of the book "Parallel Journeys" by Elanor Ayer, a recurring theme I have notice is hypocrisy. This is mostly portrayed through one of the main character Alfons Heck a Nazi youth, and everyone who was a Nazi. Throughout the text, the followers and Hitler claimed that they'd gain power in a 'calm' and 'peaceful' manner, but this was only propaganda as this winning of the war was only gained and riled up by the hate of others. That alone is already something that isn't peaceful, but it is known that throughout the war the Nazis tried to cover up their ways by finding countless justification to kill Jewish people. Though they attacked Jewish people for causing 'destruction' and 'hate,' the Nazis were the ones initiating this and at an even greater scale than what they claimed the Jewish people were doing.

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One theme that was constant throughout the book was determination. Eva was determined to save her sister and herself during their time in Auschwitz. Eva showed in her writing how committed she was too surviving and how she fought for her life. Another theme that showed up was trust. whilst they're in the camp they met two other twin girls and they became acquaintances. They had trust in each other over time and the other twins taught Eva and Miriam advice that helped them keep going. At the end of the book Eva shared how it was important to have trust in yourself and to stand up for yourself. She was strong throughout her experience and did great things before she passed.

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I can make a connection between this book and the movie "Night and Fog" that we watched yesterday. Helen was taken to Birkenau  (which is in Auschwitz), Night and Fog was filmed on the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. what I thought was so interesting about this book was that after we saw the movie yesterday and were a "little" traumatized I went home and read a story about someone who experienced the horrors exactly as they showed in the book. I also thought about the book that I just read: Milkweed. In this book they also talk about anti-semitism after the war which is also shown in Parallel Journeys.

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One of the settings in the book Parallel Journeys is the Auschwitz concentration camp. This setting first appears in chapter 14 in Helens perspective. Auschwitz was the biggest and arguably  worst camp ever. The conditions were horrible. People had to share small beds and bathrooms, as well as the little food and water that they got which was always disgusting. Hundreds of people died every day from dehydration and starvation, not to mention gas chambers. It was a horrible place made by horrible people.

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Bruno is the protagonist in "The boy in the stripped pajamas" By: John Boyne. Bruno is a nine year old boy who misses his old home in Berlin. We can see that Bruno is selfish and arrogant. Bruno likes being right and when he is accused of being wrong he argues a lot. He tries to impress his father and mother by being very polite. On the other hand he picks fights with his sister, Gretel and calls her "a hopeless case." His closest relationship is with his new friend Shmuel who lives in a concentration camp. They sit and talk all day but Bruno does not understand how Shmuel's rights are being stripped from him and how he is being abused. Shmuel and Bruno get very close over the year that Bruno lives in Auschwitz.

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there are two narrators/ protagonists. Leon is doing Aflons I am doing Helen.
Helen Waterford was a jewish woman living in holland. she was from Frankfurt but moved to Amsterdam to escape the nazis with her husband. She and Her husband wanted to protect their child Doris so they sent her to live with a Non jewish family to protect her. Helen and her husband Siegfried unfortunately got caught and sent to the Birkenau section of Auschwitz. once they got to the camp Helen and Siegfried never saw each other again. Despite being in horrible situations, Helen never gave up hope. She was betrayed multiple time once Auschwitz was liberated. She kept going and eventually got back to her home is Amsterdam.
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In this book, the protagonist, Bruno, is a very innocent and egocentric 9 year old boy who hates to be wrong and knows nothing about the war or his fathers job as a Nazi commander. He copies everything his parents say, and doesn't really know what they mean. He doesn't realize how lucky he is compared to Shmuel, another 9 year old boy in the concentration camp right next to his house in Auschwitz. He thinks Shmuel is very lucky to have so many other boys his age on his side of the fence and he doesn't understand the situation at all.

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The setting in this book is Auschwitz, Bruno lives in a nice house, across from his house is Auschwitz the consecration camp in Germany

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The book angel of death by Eva talks about how they were treated in school when they were taught that jewish people were dangerous and that they shouldn't be trusted the kids ignored them and called them Nasty names and physicaly abused so this shows how adults impact children and turn them into evil people when they grow up and how they were pure until adults started telling them things

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This book is connected to what we learned about the holocaust because theyre in a concentration camp and shmuel is very skinny and grey looking which is very similar to what we learned in the night of fog movie

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in maus the general themes are depression and hope

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Bruno is a 9 year old boy living in a nice house unaware of what is happening. Bruno has recently made a new friend in his new living space, Schmuel another boy the same age. What Bruno doesn't know and understand is that Schmuel is currently at a concentration camp, but Bruno is completely unaware of this.

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this setting of the story is mostly based on people who old parents who were involved in the Holocaust and adults being curious about what their parents went through

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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Connect the themes or plot of your book to one of the stages of isolation. Use examples from your reading to help support your connection.

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One stage of isolation 'The Boy In The Striped Pajamas' displays is genocide. This is shown because in the end of the book, Bruno walks into Auschwitz and gets gassed and dies in a gas chamber. This was one of the many forms of genocide the Nazis used. Additionally, in the book Shmuel told Bruno that he had seen people being marched away and never seeing them again. I inferred from this that they were being sent to death camps or mobile killing units.

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I feel this book pushed the 3rd stage of isolation (Ghettoization) into my mind when reading. as our main character Hannah/ Chaya is being transported to a concentration camp via train, we get vivid descriptions on how the trip was like. once they got there, their rights were taken from them, being defined as less than human compared to the soldier, and forced into cramped cold living spaces. they were starved and worked to live.

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Oe stage of isolation that connects to this book is concentration camps. Bruno befriended Shmuel a 9 year old boy who was forced into Auschwitz. Bruno slowly learns little by little more about the camp.

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I think many of the stages of isolation connect to this book however the most fitting one would be concentration camps. At the beginning of the novel we can tell that Bruno comes from a wealthy family and he hates being wrong. But when Bruno means Shmuel he realizes that they both live very different lives. Shmuel doesn't give many details about what it is like living in the camp but he expresses that he is very sad when him and his family can't find his father. He also tells Bruno about the lack of food and Bruno starts to notice that Shmuel has many bruises from the soldiers.  I think the author wanted to show the viewers details from both perspectives, a Jewish boy living in a concentration camp and a rich German boy. In conclusion, the book connects to the stage of isolation, concentration camps.

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Serenity Wilson (Othering ,Stripping of rights)

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Serenity Wilson (Othering ,Stripping of rights)

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Surviving the angel of death has many different stages of isolation but the two that stuck out to me the most are Othering and Stripping of rights when its often shown throughout the book when we get to see how they were treated

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The Devils Arithmetic is a very unique book though the theme is very similar to a lot of the other holocaust books. The book takes place during the holocaust on a concentration camp in 1941 after the Jews were already stripped of their rights and aware of the dangers that they faced during this time. The book connects to multiple stages of isolation but I will only discuss 2. The Concentration Camps And the stripping of rights. The main character in this book is attempting to escape the camp but the people in the camps do not listen to the main character who tells them that there are millions of Jews who will be killed and that they have to escape so they just sit and talk and re live the experience of the holocaust from the perspective of someone with the knowledge of what will inevitably happen.

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In the story when looking at Helen's part, you can see the Stripping of rights stage. Helen escapes Germany to go to Amsterdam. When Amsterdam gets captured new laws are set for Jewish people. They are not allowed to be on the street from 7pm to 6 am. They were fired from jobs and weren't allowed to ride bikes. They weren't allowed to do many things because they were Jewish

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stage 5, extermination, connects back to the ending of the book, when Bruno goes "missing". When Smuel's father goes missing, Bruno tries to help his friend by dressing as prisoner and following Smuel into the concentration camp. Towards the end of their search, the boys get caught into a herd of prisoners where they are led to an inside area. They enter a separate room with the belief that is was a "routine shower", but then get gassed and they both die.

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Surviving the Angel of Death

Eva must have been very strong to forgive what had happened to her during the Holocaust. No matter how easy she made it seem, the conditioning and evil of the Nazi's actions to strip her rights away obviously had a large affect on the survivor's population. Many people felt offended that she meant to clean up the work that the Nazis had done and they did not want " anyone to forgive the Nazis for what they had done", they felt like they had their right to be angry and mourn their lost ones taken away, which caused a lot on controversy.

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Throughout the book "the boy in the stripped pajamas" the plot of the story revolved around bruno and his family and how he is navigating the big new move. One stage of isolation that is portrayed throughout the plot  of the book is stripping of rights and othering. For example as it was shown in the book with the concentration camp and how they were being treated and surcumbed to wearing the stripped uniform and being barefooted they were treated as other. and this idea of having power/ being in the upper class systems like bruno and his family is this creates this dynamic/ system between Shmuel and bruno and how they are structured to live Different lives due to the Many stages of isolation that is portrayed throughout the entire book and plot.