A Night Divided by Kaleb Jivraj

How I think the Berlin wall looked like

jjiang13 — 2024-03-18 14:58:56 UTC

a very hard border to cross. I pictured this because in the story, they said many people had died trying to cross so I figured it would be like this. In reality, It was hard to cross because there was lots of soldiers in the area

What it actually looked like

jjiang13 — 2024-03-18 15:00:56 UTC

People on the other side demanded freedom for the people

living on the eastern side of germany from around 1960s~1990s

This is the berlin wall

mkittlitz — 2024-03-18 15:01:30 UTC

Soldiers are opening the door

What the wall looked like

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-18 15:02:26 UTC

This changes things because I thought that the wall would be a lot more well protected

mkittlitz — 2024-03-18 15:02:28 UTC

Soldiers building the berlin wall

Berlin wall

mkittlitz — 2024-03-18 15:03:01 UTC

People graffitied the wall to show that they want freedom

What I Pictured In My Mind

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-18 15:10:01 UTC

I Pictured the wall this way because it was so hard to get over that I pictured it to be very high tech but in reality it was just a really large wall with guards

How the Picture Affects How I Read

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-18 15:14:10 UTC

The Picture Affects how I read because now I know that the wall was actually just very tall and hard to escape because soldiers guarded it.

Graffiti

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-18 15:16:55 UTC

Many citizens did not like the Berlin wall because it separated them and their families which is why on the West side of the border the whole wall was covered in Graffiti.

Chapters, quote.

mkittlitz — 2024-03-18 15:17:16 UTC

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity,"

-Albert Einstein, German physicist and intellectual.

Maybe this means that even though something may be difficult, there is always an opportunity you can get out of it.

Ch 14, quote..

"Who wagers nothing, he wins nothing,"

-German Proverb

I think this quote symbolizes that you have to give in order for people to give back to you.

Ch 15, "Who shows courage, encourages others,"

-Adolf Kolping, German priest and social reformer.

Meaning: people have to show they are brave to encourage other to maybe step out of their comfort zone and try new things.

Prompts

mkittlitz — 2024-03-18 15:28:31 UTC

This makes me think...

Dictating enviroment
graffiti on walls, rioting, protesting.
People are upset because they are seperated from family.
Police, cops, in charge.

How the Pircutre Affectrs how I read

jjiang13 — 2024-03-18 15:29:33 UTC

Symbolism

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-19 18:42:01 UTC

In the book the author keeps adding in the welcome building as Fritz and Gerta walk down to the bunker from inside the welcome building. I think the author keeps repeating this because for Gerta the building suggests hope because it is where they are hiding the secret tunnel.

The wall is symbolism in the way that it shows they are trapped.

a night divided

mkittlitz — 2024-03-19 18:44:11 UTC

I can tell how Fritz's and characters have changes through out the story. For example at the beginning they were just getting used to having the wall their and the war between Russia and Germany. Now on page 137, it says "we were running out of food in the apartment too," this shows that even though this time is hard their family has to learn how to adapt to this new enviroment that they are living in

Berlin Wall

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-19 18:44:31 UTC

How long the wall stayed up surprised me because I thought that if so many people were unhappy the wall would have been taken down and the fact that they could not leave the country makes me think that it was a dictatorship because the people had no say in the governments choicess

I think...

mkittlitz — 2024-03-19 18:46:02 UTC

I think the wall is a symbol in this story. It symbolizes how families have to be seperated. thye have to learn to adapt without each other.

homework

mkittlitz — 2024-03-19 18:46:55 UTC

how are characters different?

How are they the same?

How are problems different?

How are they the same?

What was a significant problem

did u guys actually finish the whole book- makena

jjiang13 — 2024-03-19 18:50:02 UTC

How Projekt 1065 and A Night Divided are similar and different

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-19 18:50:38 UTC

Setting: Similar: the setting is similar because both of the stories are located in Berlin and where they both live is under dictatorship.

Different: During Projekt 1065 the country is not split into many parts and they are in the middle of a World War, while in A Night Divided they are not in war but are forbidden from leaving/.

Research

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-19 19:09:09 UTC

While a lot of people got under the Berlin Wall there were still many casualties.

Significant Problem

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-20 18:28:11 UTC

The families are separated from each other

Theme

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-20 18:29:21 UTC

A think a dominant theme in this book is that sometimes to get to good times you have to go through hard times.

The author used the minor characters to create this theme because many of the minor characters created problems for the main characters (Fritz, Gerta, and Gerta's Mom). For example Officer Muller figured out there was a tunnel and was going to kill them so they had to face the time where they thought they were going to die but then he helped them.

I think that the conflict is man vs man in the way that the two siblings are trying to escape East Germany but they are trying not to be caught by the police.

Setting creates the theme because they have to escape East Germany but the setting makes them face a hard time because they cannot be caught while digging.

Some more evidence to support this is the fact that they had to face the hard time of not being able to see her family for 4 years. Another time was when Gerta and Anna were not friend they both had to go through hard times of not having friends but in the end they all became friends again.

Theme of bookies

jjiang13 — 2024-03-20 18:37:45 UTC

All of us think that one of the stories main theme is you have to overcome bad things to get good things, for example Gerta was living a not so great life in the east side of Berlin, disconnected from her Father and Dominic. She gets caught, her brother is arrested and they have no future in east Berlin. Anna stops being friends with her. Their Father dances to signify to dig. They find a letter with a drawing and they find a air raid shelter where they dig to the other side of the wall which is west Berlin. Anna also becomes friends with her again

Authors craft in the Theme

jjiang13 — 2024-03-20 18:37:58 UTC

He made it so that the setting was easy to picture, I easily pictured a garden on a small acre, a young girl climbing a metal ladder to dump dirt wherever she could. I think i have to work on that too.

Theme

mkittlitz — 2024-03-20 18:39:10 UTC

I think the common theme in the story is that people go through hard times and still have to adapt to change. For example, in the book, the family has to adapt to the war going on. They also have to learn to change and adapt to the wall being there and the soldiers. The author use the craft move to show what characters are feeling and how they are learning to adapt to change.

Nah I'd Adapt

jjiang13 — 2024-03-20 18:41:40 UTC

On page 137, it says that they were running out of food in the apartment. This shows that their family has to adapt to the living conditions here like always having food shortages.

Sources

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-20 18:43:54 UTC

National Geographic
Wikipedia - This has a lot more information but it is a lot more harder and longer
Third Site

Other Books Realeted

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-20 18:54:52 UTC

The Berlin Wall

Craft Moves

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-20 19:07:49 UTC

Amazing Description of setting
Character also described really well so I can picture the book as a movie in my head
The author used very good word choices that helped me feel empathy for the character
The author created a lot of tension in different parts of the book

Craft move

mkittlitz — 2024-03-20 19:10:08 UTC

My author Jennifer A. nielson's craft move was that she made the reader feel a sort of empathy for the characters in the book. She made readers feel how the characters are feeling deep inside. For example, on page 137, the family doesn't have food so she makes readers feel bad for the characters.

The author...

mkittlitz — 2024-03-21 00:27:35 UTC

the author showed craft moves in the story by making readers fell empathetic towards the characters. I can impact this craft move on my own story writing and it will help my readers feel empathy towards the characters.

Why was it built

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-21 14:50:01 UTC

The berlin wall was built to stop the many people leaving the East to go to the West. The reason people wanted to go to the West was because it was being rebuilt better than the East.

Irony

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-21 14:55:17 UTC

The East German communist Government said that they would not build the wall but then in reality they actually built the wall.

Adapt

kjivraj3 — 2024-03-21 14:56:35 UTC

The characters in our story have to adapt to many different things for example they had to adapt to having no father for 4 years. Then they had to adapt to the fact that there were many food shortages and they had no food for a long time.