What book did you read?
How did war affect the child/children in your book?
Did s/he understand what was going on regarding the war?
Did s/he have the ability to do something about his/her situation? What was it? How did it affect others?
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ReplyDelete1. Baseball Saved Us
ReplyDelete2. The child in my book was sent away to an internment camp here in the US for being a Japanese American.
3. I dont think so. He seemed not to really understand why nobody liked him anymore.
4. Not really, other than playing baseball to make people feel a little bit better about their situation.
I read the book, "The Harmonica".
ReplyDeleteIn the book, the was robbed a young Jewish boy of his parents, his home and his youth. He was forced to grow up much faster than anyone should ever be. He was beaten, starved and abused in a Nazi concentration camp.
The boy understood that the war was surrounding them and that the Germans were the ones who killed his parents. He recognized that he was playing his harmonica for his friends and family and not the German commander. The music cheered up his fellow inmates and provided him with bread so he wouldn't starve. If he had afiled then he would have been killed.
I read Boxes For Katje. In this book the war affected Katje by not having many things we have in America like: soap, sugar, and new shoes. I think that Katje understands that the war was the cause of scarcity of sugar and such other things. I don't think that she had the ability to change the fact that her town had a scarcity of sugar and such things, but she could write to her American friend. She (the American friend) could affect the town by sending packages to the town and help them (the town) with the town scarcity of food and such things.
ReplyDeleteI red the book "Angel girl"
ReplyDeleteThe book was about a boy who lived in Poland, when he was 11 he was separated from his mother, and taken to a concentration camp. Once there a girl used to come to the fences and toss him apples. When the war was over he met his "Angel Girl." They lived happily ever after.
He understood what was going on during the war. He could not do anything about it, but a Jewish girl did do something about it by keeping him alive with the apples.
The book I read was Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot by Margot Theis Raven.
ReplyDeleteMercedes lives in Berlin during WWII, and planes fly over her house every day, scaring her chickens so they almost never give her eggs. Her family is poor, and she might have to get rid of the chickens.
She's only seven-years-old and doesn't really understand what's going on during the war as a whole, only what's happening to her.
Though she doesn't have the ability to do much, she writes to Lt. Gail Halvorsen, the Chocolate Pilot, who drops candy to the kids of Berlin out of his airplane, that her chickens aren't giving her the eggs that she needs and asks him to drop some candy at her home. The candy doesn't affect many people besides making Mercedes and her mother happy, and making Lt. Halvorsen feel good about himself and what he does.
i read the cats in krasinski square.
ReplyDeletestray cats helped to save the day!
i think so it didn't really say but she lived near a ghetto. yes she used her cat friends to save the day!
I read A Place Where Sunflowers Grow, by Amy Lee-Tai. The main character, Mari, did not understand why her family was in a camp, or about anything regarding the war. Through her art classes she became able to hope, and to see what her life would be like after the war.
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ReplyDeleteI read The Harmonica by Tom Johnston. It affect him because he got sent to a concentration camp and he was separated from his parents. No he didnt really understand what was going on in the war. Yes he played the harmonica to give the other prisoners hope.
ReplyDeleteIn read the Harmonica. He was affected by the war because he was put in camps and separated from his mom and dad.Yes he understand what was going on about the war. Yes he did he played the Harmonica and got bread for it but he was the only one who did it.
ReplyDeleteI read "Willie and Max"
ReplyDeleteThey were best friends and they got separated.
A little bit.
He hid the picture that Max had.
The Germans didn't get the lady and Willie found the picture.
The book i read was called the cello of Mr. O. In the book, the war affected the little girl because a lot of times there was not enough food to eat. Also, in order to stay warm she had to burn her furniture so a lot of times she was cold. She did not understand what was going on with the war, all she knew is that it was making her angry all the time. She did not have the ability to change her situation, which was living alone with her mother in a small apartment with no heat or food. There was one man who made her life a little better though, his name was Mr. O, and he would play the cello to make everyone feel better, when she was hungry, she would hear the man playing the cello and it would make her feel better, and she wouldn't be hungry anymore.
ReplyDelete1. Nim and the War Effort
ReplyDelete2. It affected her because she was Asian. Her school was doing a paper drive.
3. She understood so she was trying to get as many newspapers as she could.
4. She really I guess didn't have the ability to do anything. The only thing she could do was collect newspapers.
I read the book Angel Girl, by Laurie Friedman. In it, an eleven-year-old Jewish boy named Herman is living during World War II. Herman was greatly affected by the war, separated from his mother, and forced into a German concentration camp. Herman was aware that something was going on, and that he was living through something horrible, but at first he did not quite understand what was happening to him at first, and just how monumental it was. All that he could do about his situation was simply to live through it, and pull himself through every miserable day. Thanks to the presence of an "Angel Girl" who brings him an apple every day, and comes to the fence to give it to him, he is able to get a small amount of happiness and solace from the horrors of the Concentration Camp.
ReplyDeleteI read The Cats in Krasinski Square.
ReplyDeleteWar affected the children who lived in the Ghettos because the Nazis were keeping them their and not letting them have food.
The main character knew a little about what was going on the war because she knew about the Nazis and the ghettos and the plans to smuggle food into the ghettos.
The main character did have the ability to do something about her situation. She used her cat friends to distract the dogs that the Nazis were using to uncover the smugglers who were bringing food into the Ghettos. It affected others by helping the starving people who were stuck in the ghettos.
I read "Boxes for Katie" and it took place in Holland. In Holland everything was scarce after the war, but then an American girl sends her a package filled with simply soap. Katie sends a message back and soon the American girl keeps sending larger and larger donations and eventually the the donations are so large the whole town receives gifts! The whole town understood that they could do nothing and the only help was foreign. I liked this book alot becuase it was about war but it still wasn't gloomy.
ReplyDeleteI read The Harmonica by Tony Johnson. The war affected the kid in my book because he had to go to a concentration camp and he was separated from his mother and father. He did understand what was going on in the war. He did have the ability to change his situation because he could play the harmonica for his commandant and he would get bread while the other people starved. It didn't affect anyone else.
ReplyDeletei read rose blanche. rose found everyone in the concentraition camp. she did not know what was going on. she brought them food because they saaid they were hungry
ReplyDeleteI read The Feather-Bed Journey by Puala Kurzband Feder. The children in my story weren't alive during a war but their grandma was about seven when World War II started. I think the young girl, Rachel, understood what her grandma went through, but i did not think the little boy, Lewis, understood. The grandma couldn't do anything except hide from the Nazi's and everyone who would turn her in. She obviously did a good job because she lived to tell her grandchildren.
ReplyDeleteI read Willy & Max by Amy Littlesuger. Because of the war, Willy and Max (best friends) were separated. You see, Nazis took Max because he was Jewish. They never saw each other again. He did understand what was happening in the war. He didn't have the ability to change his situation because he couldn't stop the Nazis.
ReplyDeleteI read "Baseball Saved Our Lives" and the war effected the children because the kids were sent to a camp and the only thing they could do was play baseball but many of the kids got really good. I liked this book because shows what happened back then.
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