Chapter 3 notes

Concentration camps:

• threw babies into the flames
• wearing bad uniforms
• prisoners being forced to run
• food rationed--soup, bread
• giants flames and firepits
• the smoke
• families being separated

Dehumanization:

• possesions siezed
• had to wear the yellow stars
• tattooed numbers onto bodies
• shaved bodies/removed clothing and given shower
• make prisoners start to run--overcome by fatigue/lose sanity
• never called by name

Stein of Antwerp:

• family friend
• wanted to know about family
• elie lies and says the families okay
• eventually he finds out the truth--he dies

description of concentration camps

• separated into 2 different lines
• saw a large chimney and crematorium
• large fire pit that they were throwing people in
• put in empty barracks where they had to strip and give up their clothes
• taken to rough barbers that shaved them
• were given uniforms they had to wear even if they werent their size
• barbed wire all around the camp

Brief Love

1. The poem is very blunt and forward about the conditions on the cattle car. It doesnt mask over what went on in the car just because its a poem explaining an intimate encounter.
2. I still wonder how long they were together, and what they all had talked about, or if it was just love at first sight.
3. There are many connections with this poem and other Holocaust materials we've read such as the conditions of the cattle car. It also explains how people were dying left and right, also touch on the fact that they would trik people into thinking they were going into a shower then they would gas them.

fire class discussion

Fire symbolism:

• crematoriums = death
• fear
• burning bodies, faith, culture, memories
• the hate and chaos
• destruction happening
• power of the Nazis

Fire

The woman who sees the flames is very important, she somewhat foreshadows the events in store for the Jews. The first time she was shouting about the fire, no one believed her, yet once they got to the concentration camp there was an actual fire, she was dead on. This part in the story shows how high the peoples nerves were after being in a cattle car for so long, in the unbarable heat, they even resorted to beating her to stop the yelling.

Class list foreshadowing

Foreshadowing

• Jews were expelled from Sighet.
• Moishe the Beatle came back to warn the other people.
• The Gestapo and hungarian police enter sighet
• The Ghetto, lost all rights
• All jews were lined up ready for transport.
• when Moishe was taken away, someone said "What do you expect, thats war."
• The family member knocking at the window

Foreshadowing

FORESHADOWING

• More and mor erestrictions were being put on the jews
• They were made to wear the yellow star of David
• The Jews just looked past all of the signs
• Moishe the Beatle was in the group of people that were being taken to a forest where he watched people dig their own graves then be shot into them
• He came back to warn people and tell his story
• One day they were told that they were being transported
• the Hungarians came in the ghetto and were very cruel and heartless to the people
• They were transported to a smaller ghetto

What I know about the Holucaust

What I know about the Holocaust.

• was during WWII
• Hitler tried wiping out the Jewish population
• they were kept in concentration camps
• they were killed in many different ways
• they were branded and had to wear special clothing
• many tried to hide and flee
• they were tortured

What we know about the Holocaust.

• it was a mass genocide
• Many of the killing were of Jews (6 million)
• Total killing estimated 11 million
• Hitler wanted a "perfect race" (Aryan- blonde hair and blue eyed)
• Hitler also targeted other groups-- gypsies-- polish -- Homosexuals--mentally disabled
• started in germany
• Hitler's men were called the Nazis
• Mass extermination was conducted in different ways: shooting, burning, gasing, starvation, disease
• Elit Nazis were classified as the Gestapo
• Started WWII
• Hitler was a soldier in WWI
• wrote a book while he was in prison
• Anne Frank was a victim

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The Lottery

1. Justice is the quality of being just or fair.

Some traditions we have would include going to my grandmas house every christmas eve and easter as a family. Also at christmas eve, the youngest puts the little baby jesus in the manger.

2. The community was very traditional even if there were some people who thought iyt should change, it was also so small that they were each afraid to really speak up about it. Mrs Hutchinson was stoned by teh town because she "won" the lottery.. In this town they have a lottery every year where they pick someone to stone to "sacrifice". Its a long standing tradtion that many people are set in their ways about.

3. Have people outside the town found out they still do this to people?, If so, why wouldnt they try and stop it"

4. "It isnt fair !"

By the Waters of Babylon

1. Well, im not complaining but I guess if I thought about it I would say that we do process our information too quickly. We're dangerously close to destroying ourselves.
2. He went to the river, then to the dead place which turned out to be New York.
3. What exactly did the people do to destroy the city?
4. "We must rebuild"

"There Will Come Soft Rains"

Pre-Reading:
1. I don't really know what the world will look like in 2026, considering im not a gypsey and i can't tell the future. Yet, if you think about it it, 2026 is only 18 years away, I mean if i live an average lifespan hopefully, I would live to see the year. Hopefully we wont all die from a nuclear bombing. I imagine our gadgets will continue to get even more and more advanced. As a matter of fact, thats what im afraid will happen. Our technology will eventually take over the world as we know it.

Questions:
So is it a nuclear bomb that kills everyone?
How can the dog still be alive?

"Harrison Bergeron"

Pre-reading:

What is Equality?
Equality, by definition, is "the quality of being the same in quantity, measure, or value of status. The state of being equally balanced" Yet, it's ironic because in society our differences and personal talents are what balance us out. There is no such thing as being able to create a perfect society in which everyones equal. Nobody will ever be equal to eachother is essence. You have to take the good with the bad in life. Being able to have our differences and express them freely is what our country is all about. In the end there is a big difference between being equal, and being treated equally.

Plot/Reaction:
1. Harrison Bergeron was aman groing up in the future, when everybody was "equal" He had to wear a mental handicap on his head which would dumb him down to the level that the government wanted society at. Yet, he was a genious and could always think through his handicap. He broke out of jail and appeared on the tv without his handicap, went a little crazy and essentially got shot down by a handicapper general.
2. He was too smart for the Handicaps they were giving him. Then they asked him to work for the government because he was so smart, while working for them he questioned how they went about things.

Questions:
Why does he go to jail?

Quote:
"what just happened?" George asked
"I don't remember." -Hazel

"Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket"

Pre-reading:
Top Five Priorities
1. Family
2. Friends
3. Education
4. Music
5. Future

Plot/Reaction
1. There was two montsh worth of work on a new idea for his job on that sheet.
2. He climbs out on the ledge of the building and inches over to the corner where he picks up the sheet, looks down, and starts freaking out. Finally he makes his way back to the window to see that it closed on him. He punches it open and he gets inside only to have teh sheet fly back out the window.

Questions:
Why didn't he remember what was on the sheet if it was so important anyway?
Wouldn't the wind at that hieght have been too strong?

Quote:
"As he watched the paper fly back out the window he just turned around and laughed, closing the door behind him."

Exposition:

• Tom and his wife Clare living in New York. The setting being his little apartment 11th story on Lexington Avenue.

Rising Action:

• he stays home to work
• yellow sheet flys out the window
• stares at the paper and thinks about what he'll do
• nothings long enough to reach it
• finally came to the idea of climbing out the window
• climbs out window and slowly inches across ledge to paper, with balance
• once he reaches the paper he looks down and starts freaking out
• he can't move
• he's shaking and starts to inch back clumsily
• he reaches his window to find that it has closed
• gets angry
• tries to send up a flare
• throws coins down hoping someone will see
• finally punches through the window to get back in and realizes that he was worrying too much about his paper then he was about his wife
• he places the yellow sheet back on desk with pencil on top of it

Climax:

• as he walks out to meet his wife the yellow sheet flys back out the window

Falling Action:

• Goes out to meet his wife
• pencil rolls off desk because of the wind
• he sees paper fly out the window and laughs as he closes the door behind him

Resolution:

• As he walks out he laughs that the paper flew out the window again, accepting it because of everything he had previously realized.

Conflicts:

• yellow sheet flys out the window
• finally came to the idea of climbing out the window
• climbs out window and slowly inches across ledge to paper, with balance
  once he reaches the paper he looks down and starts freaking out
  he can't move
• almost falls
• tries many tactics to get attention
• finally takes it upon himself to break window open
• varies from man vs. self to man vs. nature to a little of man vs. society

The Tone of a story

Tone

Tone: the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude.

Example: In a scary movie, the whole tone of the movie or story is horror, suspense, and suprise, to get a reaction out of its audience. Same thing would go with the tone of a comedy, it would be light and funny. It's not what the story is, but how it is.

Round Character

Round Character

Round Character: a fully developed character with the complexities of a real person.

Example: Nemo is a round character because he portrayed the same problems some humans might face and his personality had many sides, he was mostly happy but he also was very scared, rebellious, and determined in the movie.