Compare and Contrast

I compared two books, In Memoirs of a Holocaust Survivor: Icek Kuperberg and Hostage To War: a true story by Tajana Wassiljewa. Both of these books are holocaust survivors and they both involve their lives in war and how they survived through it but their was surprisingly many differences. I felt like Icek Kuperberg was treated more poorly than Tatjana Wassiljewa. They said that Icek Kuperberg was ordered 25 lashes for being "lazy" whereas Tatjana was just "shouted at...very angrily" for slacking off. I'm wondering if it was more due to gender or if it was due to the camps that they were in. Both of these articles contradict about life in war. But this shows that even two of the same situations could really have a lot of differences. 

   

I'll give you the POV

I'll give you the sun by Jandy Nelson is about two twins, Noah and Jude who were "inseparable" but a conflict causes them to separate and they go years without talking but they don't know that they need each other to complete the story. The book also goes back and forth between the present and future. Perspective takes a really big part in this book. It is told from two different points of view, the past with Noah and the future with Jude. The story goes back and forth between now and the future. The books comes together though to resolve the conflict and reveal what happened to them. 

Reality

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is about two kids in high school who were completely different but somehow made a connection and later fell in love with each other but with situations in Eleanor's home, it was hard.

I feel like Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell could connect to the real world because their regular teenagers living life. Eleanor has lot of problems in her life and at home that lots of people could connect too. This book could actually give people an idea of how to get through it. Park has a pretty good life but theirs also stuff that people could relate too with him.

Confusing Conflicts

                 A part that is confusing to me in the book Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is why Eleanor won't confess to the way that her life is at home. Her step-father is an abusive alcoholic. Eleanor explains in the book that she hates the way she lives at home but then she decides not to say anything about it. She also always says how she's gotten the urge to report her father after he would do terrible things to the mother but she never did it. There really was nobody stopping her because even if she didn't have a way to contact the police from her home, she could've easily found someone that did. I think that this is important though because it kind of shows the situations that kids have. They don't know how to help themselves in this situation like Eleanor and I think that it's important for kids to know exactly what to do in these situations.

Diversity Can Bring You Together

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell is about two kids in high school who were completely different but somehow made a connection and later fell in love with each other but with situations in Eleanor's home, it was hard.

About halfway into this book, I learned that it is okay to be different. Eleanor was a completely different person. She liked different things than everyone and found interests in different things and wasn't up to date with style and music but life at home was the reason to that. But even if things were tough, she still found love. Park still found something to connect to her with which was her music and comic books. This really brought them together even though they were two completely different people.

Obstacles of a Holocaust Surviver

          Hostage To War by Tatjana Wassiljewa is a memoir. The story is about Tatjana, a girl who was sent as a captive laborer in 1942 during World War II. The memoir goes over her childhood, where she strived for food, her captivity and how her life was like in the camps, and her freedom at the end and what she did when she was out of the camps.

            I think that the external conflict that Tatjana went through before the war was fighting for her life. Her family had very little food and Tatjana's mother had to put in her all to find food for her kids and husband. An example of having very little food is when Tatjana said, "We had had nothing to eat for many days. Not even the smallest crumb." Tatjana's way of over coming this was walking 100 kilometers which is about 62 miles to the corn regions to support her family during a really bad snow storm. This really shows how she put her family before anything. Tatjana could've easily died from starvation and hypothermia but she did all that she could as a young 13 year old girl to help her family. Hard work pays off though because at the end of her journey, she was able to feed her family.

Looking '4-ward' to 4th quarter.

I think that the most exciting thing that I look forward to is the end of the year trips, dinner dance, and most of all graduating. I feel like the school year flew by and in a month I'll be graduating!