Independent Reading Journals by Carlie Raper https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8 Zookeeper's Wife en-us 2018-04-26 12:31:52 UTC 2025-10-19 02:49:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Entry 1: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/255605781 Antagonist
In my book the antagonist are the Nazi's because they cause conflict as they invade warsaw as seen in this quote from the book.
]]> 2018-04-26 12:36:57 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/255605781 Entry 2: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260850548 Books
Diane Ackerman has written 29 books in total and some of them include: An Alchemy of Mind, The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us, and A Natural History of the Senses.]]> 2018-05-15 13:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260850548 Entry 3: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260854428 Climax
In Poland the Rebels start their uprising and fight back against the Germans.]]> 2018-05-15 13:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260854428 Entry 4: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260855968 Describe
The setting of the book is during WW2 and it is set in a zoo that has become the "market" for the Germans to pick which animals they want to kill and which they want to experiment on. The zoo is located in Warsaw, Poland which has been invaded by the German Nazi's.]]> 2018-05-15 13:58:08 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260855968 Entry 5: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260859757 Exposition
In the beginning of the story Antonina begins by talking about her life. Like how she met Jan, what she did at the zoo, and what had happened to her parents.]]> 2018-05-15 14:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260859757 Entry 6: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260862338 Figurative Language
Simile:
Metaphor:
Hyperbole:]]> 2018-05-15 14:11:54 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260862338 Entry 7: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260863016 Give an alternative ending
For the entire book in the end Antonina returns back to her home to see if it is still there. It survived the war but she doesnt think that she can return to her old life. But I think that she should ultimately try to forget the past and return to her old life and live it to her best ability.]]> 2018-05-15 14:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260863016 Entry 8: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260871212 Heart to Heart
I am writing a text message to Antonina.
"Coming soon..."]]> 2018-05-15 14:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260871212 Entry 9: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260873764 Illustration]]> 2018-05-15 14:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/260873764 Entry 10: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261053751 Justify
I would recommend my book to anyone who is interested in WW2 based books. Honestly I love books that are based in the WW2 time and that really give a perspective of someone who experienced it.The book is probably one of my top favorites because it is from the perspective of non-jewish people that owned a zoo but were still somehow robbed of everything they loved. It gave me a new perspective and showed me that even those who weren't directly discriminated by the Nazi's still payed a price.]]> 2018-05-16 01:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261053751 Entry 11: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261054653 Know
  • In what ways did Antonina sacrifice what she had during WW2? 
 Antonina has to give up many things throughout the book including her home, zoo animals and even having a happy marriage.
  •  What did Jan end up joining during the war?
Jan ended up joining the resistance during the war because he did not agree with what the Nazi's were doing.
  • Why did the Nazi's take the animals from the Warsaw Zoo?
  • The Germans only wanted the purest most prized animals of the zoo to try and make the animals as pure as them.

]]> 2018-05-16 01:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261054653 Entry 12: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261056067 Lesson
A lesson that was learned from this book was the fact that one should never take what they have for granted and that if something doesn't feel right always fight for what is right in your heart.]]> 2018-05-16 01:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261056067 Entry 13: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261056420 Making personal connections
In my book he person that i related to the most was Jan because he fought for what he believed in even though he knew that if he got caught he would be killed and leave his wife all alone forever with his kids. ]]> 2018-05-16 01:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261056420 Entry 14: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261056985 Narration
The Zookeepers wife is told from the perspective of the Zabinski's themselves in first person]]> 2018-05-16 01:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261056985 Entry 15: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261057598 Original
This book is similar to most of the other books about hiding jewish people but i cant say that it is very similar because none of the books that i have read about world war 2 have been in the perspective of a zookeeper or taken place at a zoo.]]> 2018-05-16 01:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261057598 Entry 16: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261057938 Protagonist
Antonina and Jan are both the protagonists in The Zookeeper's Wife.

Antonina and Jan are both the protagonist because they both make their best efforts to try and do what ever they could to help and beat the Nazi's. They both contributed to saving the lives of many Jewish people.]]> 2018-05-16 01:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261057938 Entry 17: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261059329 Quotes
"Here lived the wild, that fierce beautiful monster, caged and befriended"(The Zookeepers Wife 19)
This is my favorite quote from the entire book because it is in the beginning describing what the zoo was like before anything had taken place. It sound serene almost and it is so blatantly true because that is exactly what a zoo is.]]> 2018-05-16 01:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261059329 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261059393 2018-05-16 01:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261059393 Entry 18 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261061689 Resolution
The resolution of the book is when Antonina goes back to the villa to see if she could ultimately return to it and live there again.]]> 2018-05-16 01:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261061689 Entry 19: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261062679 Sensory
"After a rainy morning, thick cloud banks shifted and a warm October sunlight began streaming through as German soldiers patrolled each neighborhood, filling the streets with the clop of heavy bootheels and gabble in a foreign tongue. Then different sounds filtered into the lampshade store, more sibilant and transparent: crowd voices of polish men and women. Antonina saw 'one large organism flowing slowly' downtown and people trickling out of buildings to join it." (the zookeeper's wife 67)]]> 2018-05-16 02:02:33 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261062679 Entry 20: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261064402 Top 3 Songs
For My character I am choosing a Nazi.
1.Highway to Hell by ACDC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo
This relates to the character because after everything that all the Nazis have done i think theyare on the highway to hell.
2.Mean by Taylor Swift
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mean+taylor+swift
II think this song relates to my character because i dont understand why the nazi's are so mean
3.Cold as Ice by foreigner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjwV5w0IrcA
For the Nazi's to be able to do what they did to so many people they had to be as cold as ice.]]> 2018-05-16 02:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261064402 Entry 21: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261066593 Undercover
  1.  Diane Ackerman is currently 69 years old.
  2. She is a poet, essayist, and naturalist.
  3. She had a Bachelor of Arts in english from Pennsylvania State University
  4. She has written 24 books in total over her Career
  5. She lives in Ithaca, New York
  6. She was born on October 7, 1948 in Waukegan, Illinois, U.S. 
  7. Later in her career she became a staff writer at the New York times.
  8. She has won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences.
  9. She had been married once to Paul West
  10. She never had any children
I cantsay that any of this information could have led to her writing about the Warsaw zoo.
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I will be asking Antonina my interview questions.
  1.  What did it feel like to have your lifestyle ripped away from you?
I would ask this question because she did have her life ripped out from under her very abruptly.
2. What did it feel like sacrificing your safety for the hidden Jews while knowing that your safety could be compromised  at any moment? 
I would ask this question because i havent been in a situation like that and i want to know is she wold be able to describe the feeling.
3. What was it like when your leg was infected during this time of struggle for you?
I want to ask this because i feel like having a infected leg would have been so draining and the fact that she was able to pull through was crazy.
4. what would you say was the hardest sacrifice for you during this journey?
Through out the book Antonina had to sacrifice many things and i think its is a valid question to ask.
5. Lastly do you think that you could have potentially been happy if you had ended up living in the villa after the war?
I know that before Antonina could move back into the villa she had passed away and i would want to know if she had given it time whether or not she could have been happy.
]]> 2018-05-16 02:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261069969 Entry 23: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261071623 Write a Poem that explains the theme.
The World isn't Pure
However It can be made New
Through the Struggles of You.]]> 2018-05-16 02:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261071623 Entry 24: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261072289 Xenophobia
During the book the Jews that the Zabinskis had been hiding as well as the Zabinskis themselves experienced Xenophobia due to the fact that anyone they encountered they thought would discover them and expose them.]]> 2018-05-16 02:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261072289 Entry 25: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261072967 You Create
My book is honestly so good because of the struggles that it exposes of the Zabinskis. I think that it really created good imagery of what was happening throughout the book and i don't think that a single person would hate it.]]> 2018-05-16 03:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261072967 Entry 26: 4801816971 https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261073430 Zinger
In my book Ry which was Antoninas son said "'You know, Mother,'...'Szczurcio is learning how to open his cage. He's not stupid!'" (the zookeeper's wife 194) This quote from the book really surprised me because i wasn't expecting Antonina's son to talk to her like that and it caught me a little off guard.]]> 2018-05-16 03:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/4801816971/q1ubsvpacvp8/wish/261073430