Life is beautiful

Some connections I would make between our poems and this movie would have to be the way the people were treated. For example in the movie it gave us a very detailed picture of how the Jews were treated. While in the poem the Jews had more of an impactful type of thing. I could distinguish the way Germans and Jews were treated. I think the movie had made the holocaust into more of a positive mood.



The tone and mood that the movie set for me was that to stay positive and always look on the good side. While the poem spoke more about the type of depressing feelings they had encountered. The movie and poem shared similarities because they gave extensive detail about the holocaust. The tone that was set by the movie was sad and positive at the same time. But, the poem gave me more of a sorrow look of it.


Life is shown as beautiful by the way the character guido gave us spirit. The way he made up the whole idea of a "game" to protect his son from being harmed was just a way of saying if I can keep you alive it is my biggest accomplishment. Also when guido would work hard for a piece of bread showed out that being optimistic in hard life situations gives you a feel that life is beautiful. Also at the end when the little boy yells out we won still thinking it was a game and that his dad gave up his
life for him. I think those two things make life beautiful that knowing you may not come out alive but still give anything for your child and wife is amazing.


The link to movie: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hJw6Lwi1dj4

Holocaust Butterfly

The Boy Called "it"

  This book is very traumatic to read and to think it was real life is just crucial. The boy called it a little boy's will to live a survive. A life threatening life with "the mother" a monster that has some issues and isn't going to stop until her son "it" disappears or ends up dead. The book portrays how Dave was physically, mentally, and verbally abused. The father of Dave sometimes intervened but he started to get tired of doing so. The mother eventually got her firefighter husband to stop trying. That became hell for Dave since that point on.


I personally liked this book because it gave me a feeling that whatever came Dave's way he would overcome it. Although Dave had a "nice" family at first it only grew worse which grasped my attention. Dave became very vulnerable. I recommend this book to an audience that is willing to give their time and listen. This book was very encouraging and I would read again if I could. If you want to read the book I have a link below with the chapters.




Link: http://mrcsenglishclass.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/4/0/7440797/dave_pelzer_-_a_child_called_it-1.pdf

Regret

The time where I didn't ride a roller coaster because I was too scared to go on it. This happened last summer when it was my birthday. It was me, my cousin, and my brother. I felt kind of mad at myself for not going on the ride. If I could go back and redo that day I would go on every single ride that i would usually be scared of. Although my brother was trying to support me by going on the ride first.

The Privilege of Youth

This book would have to be the third book in the series that Dave Pezler has published. The first two books were a success from a child called it to the lost boy. Now it's The Privilege of Youth. This book was speaking about how Dave was growing up into a teen very scared. Dave was devastated because he knew once he left the whole foster care system he wouldn't know what to do. Then Dave met two reliable friends called David and Paul. But, with those friends Dave has to do dangerous stunts in his neighborhood to be close friends.


I liked this book a lot although it is a sad story. This has very good lessons about life that not everyone has it easy in life. The author is a brave man who had to go through dreadful things just to come as far as he has come. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to read it. There will be a link just below showing his website.

http://www.davepelzer.com/books/privilegeofyouth.html

Propaganda

This piece of propaganda is called "away with him" I believe that this piece of propaganda is trying to say that jews don't deserve to be teachers or work at all. I'd say that the picture was trying to obtain the message of "Jews are useless and not worthy". This image of propaganda is manipulative towards trying to get the people's attention. I would say that its pretty effective because now those who saw this propaganda will think the way the nazis what them to think. This is honestly very harsh and ignorant this is unbelievable. I think that everyone should be treated equal because nothing else matters not your color, religion, race, or beliefs.