Blog 5 The Man Who Was Almost a Man

1. The narrator is Dave. The story is being told in third person. The dialect is very uneducated.

2. At first she denies it, but then he tells her it only costs two dollars and she agrees to let the family's father possess it. He asked her by convincing her it is a worthy investment by costing only two dollars from "Joe at the sto."

3. Dave begins crying and tells the truth. The crowd laughs.

4. The train represents the change from boyhood to manhood in Dave's eyes.

5. Dave is just very ignorant. He does not possess common sense. This particular society will better off without people like Dave because all he does is bring harm and complaints. The people should be thankful that they do not have to put up wit him anymore.

Blog 4: Lamb to the Slaughter

The ending of this story was not judicially fair. Mrs. Maloney, though I feel bad for her heartbreak, did not have the right to take her husband's life and get away with it.

In today's society, police officers would probably be suspicious if a suspect served them meat right after the husband has gone missing... So, she would probably not have gotten away with the crime. Also, technology has improved so much that almost no criminals go uncharged. It would be way too easy to catch her.

Blog 3 GAC and Cage Reading

In chapters 34-40, many things happened that could have easily instigated the end of Riva's life. The aggressive Nazis were constantly beating her and the other prisoners. Two sisters were caught stealing potato skins from the kitchen. Apparently, they floundered and were caught. Their names were Shane and Faige. All of the girls in the barrack were summoned to watch their punishment. Shane had to beat her own sister. The witnessed could perceive that she had "lost her mind."

Blog 2 Holocaust Dictionary

I was surprised I did not hear of the "Axis" before. I was not shocked when I knew what the "Final Solution" was. The Axis is an alliance between Germany, Italy, Japan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovakia. They were all agreeing with the Nazis. I did not know all of these country were for the Holocaust. It was surprising. The Final Solution was Hitler's theory to kill all the Jews in order to create a full Aryan population. I know the Final Solution was too horrible to even fathom. There is not even a word equal to the experiences that must have been endured.

Blog 1 Part I Reflection

In Part 1, the part that stood out the most was when the Grubers turned on Riva's family in a split second. They became Volksdeutsche and felt they had duty to fulfill as being partially German. The Grubers had been part of their family ever since Riva's mom was born. Once Hitler came around, they betrayed them. That is so hard to imagine. There are people I've known all my life that I consider family. To think they could turn on me that fast is unbearable to fathom.

Blog 16 News Report on Chapter Four

It is 1939, Lodz, Poland.

Yesterday, we Nazis had to round up a quota of Jews to send to camps. They were only men; we got too many so we just shot the rest in stead of setting them free. They were just Jews though. For fun, we herded everyone in town- the men, women, and children! They were constantly made to run then walk but never stop. It was very amusing. Officer Kutz had to deal with some dumb teenager that refused to acknowledge him. Ungrateful Jew... People were saying, "He is a deaf-mute!"

Also, a good friend of mine pushed down a woman that was about to give birth to another infant Jew. Luckily, she landed right on her stomach. The humor of the situation was only increased when a man tried to help her and one of the SS smacked him on the head with a butt of his gun. "Bam!" Right into two halves. It was almost like art. We took all the captured men and separated them from the children and women. Had it been up to us, they would have all been taken away!

Blog 15 Holocaust Topics and The Cage

a. The Jewish Holocaust took place from 1933 - 1945. It was a brutal genocide of mostly Jews. Adolf Hitler commanded the German Nazis and they killed or arrested basically anyone that was not an Aryan.

b. The Nazi party was a group of strongly anti-semitic Germans. Hitler created and ruled this group.

c. Ruth Minsky Sender was a Holocaust survivor. She is the author of The Cage.

d. Auschwitz, Mittelsteine, and Grafenort were concentration camps. Auschwitz is one of the worst remembered camps. So many innocent lives were taken and the SS army controlled whether or not peopel lived or died.

e. The Cage is a personal memoir by Ruth Minsky Sender. She wrote about her life and included true events as well as true people.