Mentor Sentences- Narrative Techniques by Joan Shorter

Evan Darawi

2023-12-08 13:55:51 UTC

"Thousands and thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams" (Horn para. 5).

Isabelle Johnston

2023-12-08 13:55:53 UTC

"I wished I could throw my shoes into that pile, to grasp and feel each shoe, to jump into the sea of shoes, to become a part of it, to take it with me". (Dana Horn, pg 2)

Albane

2023-12-08 13:56:05 UTC

"My tears froze in my eyes and I couldn't cry. I felt my soul go up in flames leaving me as an empty shell." (page 2)

Giselle Mathis

2023-12-08 13:56:14 UTC

"I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls, the posion used to kill the people who were crushed into this tiny, grey cement room. I could see how their fingers had scraped off the white paint, trying to escape (Horn para. 2)."

Jonny Bahu

2023-12-08 13:57:01 UTC

"I saw the blue stains of Zyklon B streaking the ceilings and walls, the poison used to kill the people who were crushed into this tiny, gray cement room. I could see how their fingers had scraped off the white paint, trying to escape" (Horn para. 3).

Krish Batra

2023-12-08 13:57:17 UTC

"I wanted to feel; I hated the guilt I had at my lack of reaction as much as I hated what happened there."

Ari Wolfe

2023-12-08 13:57:25 UTC

"But, as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edges of my dusty, living shoes. 850,000 pairs of shoes, but now i understand they aren't numbers, they were. people." (Horn para. 8)

Diya Reddy

2023-12-08 13:57:31 UTC

statement: the events you experience are hard to forget

"And I will never forget it" (Horn 1).

Hiba Khan

2023-12-08 13:57:37 UTC

"I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground, and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep." (Horn para. 6)

Ava Varghese

2023-12-08 13:57:59 UTC

statement: the events you experience are hard to forget

quote: "I learned more there than I learned during my entire life in school" (Horn 1).

Blake Smith

2023-12-08 13:58:25 UTC

"And i will never forget it"(Horn para 1).

You can't under stand it until you have seen it.

Alan Milch

2023-12-08 13:58:39 UTC

"I am fifteen years old, and I know I can never forget" (Horn paragraph 14).

Ari Wolfe

2023-12-08 13:59:20 UTC

"It was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep." (Horn para. 6)

Ari Wolfe

2023-12-08 14:00:19 UTC

"The Photographs meant nothing to me." (Horn para. 6)

James Turner

2023-12-08 14:00:42 UTC

" I am fifteen years old, and I know I can never forget."(Horn paragraph 14)

Addie

2023-12-08 14:03:02 UTC

"The only light in that cement room was from dozens of memorial candles. It was too dark to see. The air inside was dampand sufocating, like a burial cave, and yet the air was savagely alive." (Page 2)

Destiny Bentley

2023-12-08 14:08:28 UTC

statement: "I am fifteen years old, and I know I cant forget" (page 2)

Theme: Seeing an experience with your own eyes is way more emotional than just heating about it.

Priyanca Skilton

2023-12-08 15:18:26 UTC

"I learned more there than I learned during my entire life in school...I became a different person." (Horn paragraph 1).

Maia Anderson

2023-12-08 15:18:37 UTC

"I was at Majdanek, one of the largest Nazi concentration camps. And I will never forget it." (Horn paragraph 1)

Maya Stojkovic

2023-12-08 15:21:27 UTC

"soon I crying, but for someone else: for the child whose mother's sandals rested on that pile, for the woman whose husband's shoes swam motionless in that sea, like the tears that streaked my face, for the girl whose best friend's slippers were buried in that ocean of grayness and silence." (Horn para 7)

Kate Malloy

2023-12-08 15:21:49 UTC

"I wished I could throw my shoes into that pile, to grasp and feel each shoe, to jump into the sea of shoes, to become a part of it, to take it with me." (Horn Paragraph 6)

Italo Johnson

2023-12-08 15:21:54 UTC

"...but those chilling waves were seeping into my skin, like so many tiny fingers trying to pull at my nerves and make my bones quiver." (Horn para. 2).

Channing Spencer

2023-12-08 15:22:18 UTC

"Thousands and Thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams. No book can teach me what I saw there with my own eyes" (page 2)

Victoria Salami

2023-12-08 15:22:20 UTC

"Majdanek reeks of death everywhere. Even the reminders and signs of life that exist in a cemetery, like a footprint or rustling leaves, are absent here, every image of life erased. Even the wind does not ruffle the grass, which never used to grow here because the prisoners would eat it." (Horn, pg. 2)

Aleena Bukhari

2023-12-08 15:22:30 UTC

"And I was there. You cannot visit this planet through any film or book; photographs cannot bring you here" (Hara page 2).

Theme: We never know what someone else is going through unless we experience it ourselves.

Griffin Gleich

2023-12-08 15:22:41 UTC

"...Not to notice the death which stuck daily, right behind their backyards, where I saw children playing." (Page 1)

Vaughn Mowat

2023-12-08 15:23:12 UTC

I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep. In the gas chamber I could not feel, but in that room filled with shoes, my mental blockade cracked.

Amber Spike

2023-12-08 15:24:56 UTC

"I wanted to add my own shoes to that ocean, but all I could leave there were my salty tears." (Horn 8).

Gabriel Arrington

2023-12-08 15:25:21 UTC

"I touched the toe of one nearby and felt its dusty texture, certain that mine would be different. But as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edges of my dusty, living shoes." (Horn pg 2)

Lucas Calhoun

2023-12-08 15:27:08 UTC

Majdanek reeks of death everywhere. Even the reminders and signs of life that exist in a cemetery,like a foot print or rustling leaves, are absent here, every image of life erased.

(Horn para. 10)

Collin Young

2023-12-08 17:34:23 UTC

"gray is the color of hell."(Horn para 4)

Olive Schostak

2023-12-08 17:34:25 UTC

"There are actually houses right next to the barbed wire, the fence with its thorns that stabbed my frightened eyes, enough to separate a universe."(Horn para. 4)

Holiday Lucai-Sample

2023-12-08 17:34:46 UTC

"All of the walls in one barracks are covered with people's hats, hanging in rows." (Horn, p5).

Elaina Wallace

2023-12-08 17:34:53 UTC

"Majdanek has been left exactly as it was when it was in use, so intact that if it were to be 'plugged in,' it could start gassing people tomorrow"(Horn para. 2).

Ella Heidt

2023-12-08 17:35:38 UTC

"Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own. guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths." (Horn Pg. 2)

Natalie Bielecki

bieleckinatalie96 — 2023-12-08 17:35:48 UTC

"Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own, guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths" (Horn para. 5)

Jack Conroy

2023-12-08 17:35:49 UTC

"Thousands and Thousands of shoes, each pair different, each pair silently screaming someone's murdered dreams." (Horn 4-5)

Lyla Komorn

2023-12-08 17:35:57 UTC

"And I will never forget it" (Horn paragraph 1)

Oliver Hillberry

2023-12-08 17:36:04 UTC

"Soon I was crying but for someone else." (Horn page 2)

Yara Mostafa

2023-12-08 17:36:06 UTC

"No words can express how it felt to step out of that gas chamber alive, wearing my living shoes"(Horn Para. 7)

"It crawled down my neck and compressed me as the walls and ceiling seemed to move closer. No words can express how it felt to step out of that gas chamber alive, wearing my living shoes" (Dana Horn, Pg 2)

2023-12-08 17:37:49 UTC

Waverly Pearce

2023-12-08 17:38:00 UTC

"Majdanek reeks of death everywhere... every image of life erased" (Horn para. 10)

Lyla Komorn

2023-12-08 17:38:05 UTC

""Majdanek has been left exactly as it was when it was in use, so intact that if it were to be "Plugged in" it could start gassing people tomorrow.""

Ari MB

2023-12-08 17:38:05 UTC

"And today the camp's long gray barn-like barracks still extend forever, in endless rows, the sky a leaden weight blocking the colors that grace free life. (Horn Pg. 1-2)

Auden

2023-12-08 17:38:11 UTC

"Planet Hell is beyond the realm of tears. This is why I could not cry." (page 2)

Luca Alli

2023-12-08 17:38:15 UTC

"I wished I could throw my shoes into that pile, to grasp and feel each shoe, to jump into the sea of shoes, to become a part of it, to take it with me. I wanted to add my own shoes to that ocean, but all I could leave were my salty tears" (Horn, paragraph 8).

Ashley Shulkin

2023-12-08 17:38:49 UTC

"It was someone else's nightmare, a nightmare that turned real before I even noticed it. It was a stark and chilling reality that struck me there, standing where people were slaughtered and burned, and my mind simply stopped." (Horn 9)

2023-12-08 17:39:10 UTC

"Each pair of those shoes walked a path all its own. guided its owner through his or her life and to all of their deaths." (Horn Pg. 2)

Katie Conroy

2023-12-08 17:39:16 UTC

"Even the wind does not ruffle the grass, which never used to grow here because the prisoners would eat it. But in the crematorium, I felt something I couldn't express." ( Horn page 2)

In one barracks, I sat on a platform about five feet off the ground, and surrounding it was an ocean of shoes, five feet deep. (Horn)

2023-12-08 17:39:21 UTC

Kyaden G

2023-12-08 17:39:48 UTC

"As I touched the brick furnaces with trembling fingers, my tears froze in my eyes and I could not cry. It was here that I felt my soul go up in flames, leaving me an empty shell" (Horn Page 2)

Sam Daitch

2023-12-08 17:40:40 UTC

"This Gas camber didn't have the blue poison stains that streaked the walls in the one that is saw firs, or maybe it did: the only light in that cement room was from dozens of memorial candles. it was dark to see." (Horn pg.2)

"But as I touched my own toe, tears welled in my eyes as my fingers traced the edge of my dusty, living shoes. Eight hundred and fifty thousand pairs of shoes, but now I understood" (Horn para. 6)

2023-12-13 13:05:13 UTC