(Assignment 4) Questions chapters 2 & 3

1. Explain, "our eyes were opened, but too late." Where was the train at this point?
2. What was foreshadowed by Madame Schacter's nightmare?
3. What did some of the passengers do to quiet Madame Schacter?
4. Where did the train finally stop?

1. It means that they just realized where they are and it was just a little to late for them. The train was already in a different town, they had no where to go, they couldn't escape.
2. Madame Schacter kept yelling "LOOK AT THE FIRE, LOOK!", but nothing was there.
3. They would smack her until she would shut up.
4. They had arrived in Birkenau.

1. When questioned by the S.S. Officer, why did Elie lie about his age and occupation?
2. What was the first horrifying sight that Elie at first disbelieved?
3. Explain what Elie meant when he said, "Never shall I forget these flames which consumed my faith forever."
4. How did Elie change in a short time?
5. What was Elie's first impression of Auschwitz after leaving Birkenau?
6. What was the "compulsory formality" at the entrance to all camps?
7. What sort of identification was used on the prisoners?
8. Why was the prisoner in charge of Elie's block removed from his position?
9. What were the prisoners' rations at each meal?
10. What was Bela Katz forced to do once he was chosen for his strength?

1. He had lied because that's what the guy in the striped shirt told him to do. He had said that if would be better for him.
2. When the truck full of babies and toddlers came and they just dumped them in the fire like if they were trash.
3. He will never forget the picture of the flames and the people burning in there. No matter how much he try he wont because he has lost all his faith.
4. He changed because he saw his father get hit and he didn't defend him.
5. He feels that it is better then Birkenau, so it's like a relief for him.
6. It's where they would shower them with hot water and gas.
7. They would tattoo numbers on them, and its like if they had no name it was just a number.
8. He was being to nice to the Jews.
9. They would get soup and bread once a day.
10. He was to throw his own father in the crematorium.

(Assignment 3) Chapter 1 Night Questions

1. Who is Moishe/Moche the Beadle, describe him.
2. Why did Eliezer cry when he prayed?
3. When Moishe/Moche returned what did he tell?
4. Why didn't people believe him?
5. List the ways the Jewish people of Sighet lost their rights (List 5).
6. What is a Ghetto?
7. Why did citizens resist the truth , even when it was in front of them?
8. Describe the conditions in the train (at the end of the chapter).
   
   

1. He was poor and lived in utter penury. He was an insignificant and invisible man. Physically as awkward as a clown.
2. He really wasn't sure why he would cry while he prayed. something inside him just had the need to cry.
3. He went telling his story about where they took then and what they did. He spoke only of what he had seen.
4. Because people thought that he just wanted pity and for them to feel sorry for him.
5. *They closed the synagogues.

*You couldn't get out of your house

*Yellow star

*Put them in the ghetto

*Curfew

*They couldn't have anything valuable

6. Community only for a specific type of person.

7. They were afraid that Nazi's would go and get them

8. Every cattle car carried 80 people and if any of them would try escaping everybody

in the cattle car would get shot.

Cattle Car Complex (Assignment 3)

The short story I have read is about a guy named Adam Posner. Adam fears of being left alone in the dark, and he also suffers from claustrophobia. When he was leaving from his office he had noticed that he was the last one to leave so then he had to take the elevator alone. That is the worst for Adam because he doesn't like to be left alone and the elevator is very small. Well, while he was in his elevator going down it gets stuck. He starts to panic and he starts thinking that he is back in the days where the whole Nazi and Jewish stuff was going on. He was thinking they had planned everything and he was really in a cattle car. When the security realizes that he is stuck he starts yelling "Are ya all okay down there?", and Adam starts yelling "How can we be? you guys have us stuck in this cage that's made for animals!". Adam starts going ballistics and is thinking stuff that's not really going on. Towards the end they rescue him and get him out.

Assignment 10

I really like useing the blogger for assignments because its more intresting and way better then being in class bored. It's also cool because we can see the other classmaits work, and it's usually intresting reading what the have to say about the book and the things from their point of view.

(Assignment 8) Lakshmi

Lakshmi is a very strong girl, she isn't scared to stand up for what she believes in. If she dosn't want to do it she wont. For example wen they put her in the room with the guys she did not let her self at all. She fought, kicked, pushed, and even bit to get out of there. She never gives up, she wont give up, if she wants it she will get it. But i dont mean in a bratty selfish way, i mean in a confident way.


"THE healed Heart shows its shallow scar"
BY Emily Dickinson

THE healed Heart shows its shallow scarWith confidential moan,Not mended by MortalityAre fabrics truly torn.To go its convalescent waySo shameless is to see,More genuine were PerfidyThan such Fidelity.

(Assignment 7) Something to read and think about...

Seeing the pictures of the brothel is kind of scary in my prospective. The brothels seems so dark and plain... it kind of reminds me of a haunted abandent house. Seeing what Gita did to Beauty reminds me of when Mumtaz beat Lakshmi. Then some girls look very young and its like a heart breaker seeing wat they actually go through in there. Honestly I never thought the prostitution buisness was like that untill i read the book and saw these pictures. I actually thought they would get freedom but they don't they are like dogs that are caged and only let out when they need to attack. Then Beauty has to make her coustomers THINK she is in LOVE with them just so they can come back and so she can see her 5 year old son is really sad. These pictures remined me of the book in so many ways and it actually does happen in REAL life.

(Assignment 6) UNICEF

UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 contries and territories. They help children survive; they try not to expose them to violence, sexual abouse, and HIV infection. It's also the worlds largest provider of vaccines for developing contries. They support the childrens health and nutrition by providing good water, sanitation, and quality basic education for boys and girls. UNICEF is calling on goverment, communities, and families to work together to stop human trafficking.

(Assignment 5) Time Line

• Lakshmi lives in a village with her family in Nepal.
• Her family hasn't been making any money because of the monsoon season, which it rains to much or it dosnt rain at all.
• The money they make gets all gambled away by the step father so at the end they end up not having money which pushes the step father to sell Lakshmi into prostitution.
• When she arives to the Happieness House she has no idea that shes has been sold into prostitution.
• She finds out when Mumtaz the Brothel owner puts her in a room with the old man who kisses her and tries to force himself into her, Lakshmi fights him off her and runs out.
• Mumtaz sees that she is ready so she tells her to move rooms and to go to a room where other girls are already living; while she is leaving the room she notices that a new girl has moved into her old room.
• She makes new friends with the David Beckham boy who teacher her a little bit of english, the street boy who gives her tea for free, Anita, Pushpa, and Sahanna who are her new room maits.
• One day she has a costumer who is an a American, she is kind of frightend but he does nothing at all to her; he just tries to talk and at the end hands her a white card.
• The street boy gets in trouble for giving out free drinks and not gathering the amount of money he needs so they tell him he wont be selling anymore; he tells Lakshmi and she feels bad and the last day he is there she hands him the card that the american gave her.
• At the end she escapes happieness house thanks to the street boy for calling the americans that help people in that situation.

(Assignment 1) About Me

Hi!!! Well ofcourse my name is Kimberly a.k.a Kim. Im a 8th grader, i play lots of sports like volleyball, cheerleading, cross country, basketball, track, and softball. But, my #1 sport is Volley ball!!! I just love it... but its sad that im not playing this year.=[[ Honestly i like reading intresting stuff like the type of stuff you would find in magazines. But wen it comes to books i prefer reading the ones that wont make me sleepy. For example... A Child Called It, Lost Boy, Flipped, and Sold.

Assignment 3

Man vs. Society.
I think its man vs. society because its really the society whos letting this happen. It's the parents who are selling their children to the brothels. Having them believe that they will get out as soon as they make all the money they need for their famileys, but in reality they are all lies.

A Trade pg.52-55
☻"The woman looks...to her lips."
☻"Tell Ama I...next festival season."
☻"I will give...worth she says."

(Assignment 2) One of Them pg.122

"One of Them" is a great chapter. This is when she finally tells her self that she has became one of "them" which is like the girls who live in the Happieness House. When she wakes up she dosnt even know how many days have past or what day it is, all she knows is that its the evening because of the electric sun on the ceiling. Her head throbs with pain, her mouth is parched, and her legs are shaky. Once she tries to get up she collapsed on the floor with pain between her legs. As she tries to get up shes making her way to the table where the half filled glass of water is standing. When she is up next to the table she sees a girl with black tiger eyes and bleary chili pepper lips. Finally, at the end the girl in the mirror tells her "you have became one of them".