Evaluating your Partner's Performance

Today in class we are going to listen to a discussion for 5-10 min on each chapter (11 + 12).

During the conversation you are to take notes on:

- participation
- what questions/answers they ask
- do they know what they are talking about
- overall what is your impression of their understanding of what is happening in the chapter

Give your partner an HONEST score out of 10 (10 being the best).

Questions misinformation "what u dont know wont hurt them (father and mother)

Think of 5 important questions for each of these two chapters about how important motifs and themes play a role in each chapter.

Chapter 11

1. Does your stereotypical Nazi change after seeing what the fury is like?
2. Does it change again when the fury's wife is introduced?
3. How effective is imagery used on p.63?
4. Does Bruno's conversation with his father make you think he is more or less innocence?
5.  What does the italics say  about the fury's wife?

 Chapter 12

1. Does Bruno innocence start to change with finding out more about Shamaul?
2. How is juxtaposition used in this chapter?
3. How is it ironic that Bruno want to go to Shamauls house for dinner?
4. Do you think that Shamaul think that Bruno is arrogant  for what he says about how harsh his life?

Chapter 7: How Mother Took Credit for Something She Hadn't Done

How is the mother's defence of Herr Roller entirely ironic?  she repersentes a german person and there vaules at the time were of a perfect race with no problems or physical defects so her defending him is not what the stereotypical German would do. 

What role does Kotler represent historically in the novel? (think beyond being a soldier) he is  the typical teenager making fun of everyone and doing his job not to the best he can do but the fastest he follows there ideas but are scared of the gustopo and they are represented as the heroes but in everyone's else's eyes as the enemies  

What character is Kotler juxtaposed with in this chapter? What effect does it have on understanding each of these characters? he is juxtaposed with the fat sergeant as he is young and fit will the fat sergeant is fat and old but  the young guy can make jokes but the fat sergeant can destroy him it shows that the sergeant likes the easy life and the young guy is a "smart guy"

How would you compare the interaction Bruno has with Pavel to all the other interactions Bruno has had with adults? Pavel treats him as a much better and more equal even sometimes as a superior this is different with all the other adults as the other adults treat him as a much lower being that deserves the smallest amount of attention that can be given to someone.

Why is juxtaposition a key technique employed in Holocaust texts? How has it been used in The Boy in the Striped PJ's? Juxtaposition is very important in Holocaust texts as it help to distinguish the difference between the victims and the heroes and it is used many times like the Nazis and the Jews

Chapter 6 - The Overpaid Maid

• On pg 60 Bruno reveals a radical shift in his perspective and understanding of Maria. What is this radical shift? What does this show is developing in Bruno? He realise that before she worked in there house she must of had a life and a home and family of her own this shows that Bruno is starting to realise that everything in his world is not perfect like his life and that many people have a very bad life.

• Compare how Bruno and Gretel treat Maria. Bruno treats Maria like his mother which is kinder and more respective like she a human being that is working for them not just some slave that should be treated like an animal Gretel on the other hand treats Maria like her father treat her which is the opposite in which  the mother and Bruno treat Maria.
• (pg 65) What is Maria's advice to Bruno about 'keeping safe'? Why do you think that she gives this advice? Do you think that it is good or bad advice? she warns about the fear that his mother and father would go thru if he was to run away, she gave this advice because she is scared that if she tells him to do what ever he want she may lose her job this good advice as it is a bad time to run off as it is war time.
• (65-6) What is Bruno's reaction to his new thoughts/feelings? Why do you think that he reacts this way? His reaction to these new thoughts and feelings is that he wants to cry and i have no idea why he want to cry 

Chapter 5 Qu

What does it say that we only actually meet the father in the book in Chapter 5 even though he is the one causing much of the action in the book? it shows that he isn't a family man he is a very work related person and enjoys the job that he does

the mother says: ‘We should have never let the Fury come to dinner. Some people and their determination to get ahead.’ What theme does this introduce regarding the role of ambition and causing harm? it shows that ambition can cause harm as making everyone hate one group of people makes another group more popular and this means killing Jews so that the Nazi party has more power.

How does Bruno's father speak to him? Give an example to support your answer. he speaks down to him as if he is a little boy that has no idea what is happing and needs everything spelt out for him." then im proud of you boy. sit down boy."

How would you compare the way Bruno speaks about the world to his father's? Do they both comment about what is going on around them the same? they do not see the world in the same way a reason for this this that Bruno doesn't know what is happing in the world while the father dose so they speak about it in a very different way.

How does the father rationalise every concern that Bruno has? he rationalises every concern that Bruno has by saying that he is young and that him and his mother knows what is best for him and the family.

What is ironic about what the father says when he comes around the desk and talks to Bruno about his childhood? He speaks of his childhood in a way that no child would ever act when they are young but his real childhood is probably a very different scene

Do you think that the father really cares about Bruno? Why/why not? yes i think he cares about Bruno but he doesn't show it this is because if he did not care about Bruno, when Bruno is complaining about how and where they live the father would have been very mean and told Bruno to leave but as the father stayed and listed to Bruno's problems it shows that he dose care.

Do you think that Bruno understands what he is saying when he says 'Heil Hitler!'? no he doesn't understand as he think it is just a complex adult way to say goodbye have a good day.

How is juxtaposition used in Bruno's description of their boarding the train to Auschwitz? that he doesn't understand how all the Jews have to go into a small train all stuffed together while the Germans aka him got to go into large train with tons of room and even spare chairs

What is Bruno's reason for not saying anything to the Jews on the crowded train? How is this a representation of the greater German population? That he doesn't think his mother will think that it is a good thing to do it shows that only a small part of the German population had a good life this being the high ranking German official and the rest of the population had to make do.

Holocaust Imagery - Hitler at a Nazi Rally

This is an image of a political rally in 1934, a staple of the Nazi regime. In your own blog post answer the questions below and include the image.

1. How are vectors used in this image? What effect does it have? the vector lines being the German soldiers holding the German Nazi flag make us focus all of our attention on the part between the two lines this being Hitler the effect that this has is that it makes you feel like all that happened is because of that one man .
2. Describe the composition of the image and what is tells us about the Nazis and Hitler. the composition screams out that the only important people there are Hitler and the other Nazi members it shows how they had power over millions of people and that they were perfectionists so that every thing that they did was perfect eg being the soldiers and the perfectly straight lines.
3. How is symmetry used? What effect does it have? symmetry is used in all aspects of the photo being how there are people on both side of the passage way Hitler is walking past and how the Germans and there flags are on the sides this photograph is pretty much perfectly symmetrical.
4. What effect does this picture being in black and white have? the picture being in black and white shows the age and the total lack of emotion that Hitler and the Nazi party felt for everything and everyone outside of what they wanted.
5. Discuss the use of line in this image. What effect does it have? the lines in this picture are vector lines this has the effect of making German soldiers holding the German Nazi flag make us focus all of our attention on the part between the two lines this being Hitler the effect that this has is that it makes you feel like all that happened is because of that one man 

Boy in the Striped PJ's Chapter 4

• (pg 31) How does the author continue to use juxtaposition in regards to the two housing situations? (the Jews and Bruno's family)  The author Shows that the Jews houses and  living area is very unhealthy place to be living this is compared to the out with house that Bruno hates but compared to the conditions that the Jews are living with it is like a palace
• What is it about the children that makes it difficult to understand exactly what they see through the window and just how bad it is? they have had a very sheltered lifestyle so that they don't know about the things that is happening to certain people from the dads job.
• Summarise how Gretel describes what she sees. She says that she sees a farm with all the people working there to supply food to the people that live in the city but Bruno proves her theory wrong as there is no animals or plants
• What does Gretel attempt to do when she sees the Concentration Camp? How does she attempt to understand what she sees? she invents a story about them being farmers she attempts to understand what she sees with a theory with no proof.
• Is her attempt successful? Does she convince Bruno that she understands? What does she eventually give in to? What does she say/or not say? (pg 32) No it is not successful as Bruno proves her wrong as there is no animals or plants she tries to prove to Bruno that she understand but he sees thru her.She says that she sees a farm with all the people working there to supply food to the people that live in the city but Bruno proves her theory wrong as there is no animals or plants
• What can't the children do when they see the Concentration Camp that the adults seem to be able to do? Which group can understand what they see? Why do you think that this is the case? 
• How does the author use understatement through the children's description of the Concentration Camp? the author uses understatement in this part of the children describing what they see as it shows the innocence in them how they are not aware of the horrible crimes that are happing to the humans in the concentration camp.

Responding to a Poem Holocaust

Responding to a Poem

Holocaust

by Barbara Sonek

We played, we laughed

we were loved.

We were ripped from the arms of our

parents and thrown into the fire.

We were nothing more than children.

We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us,

for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away

1. Construct a response to this poem using the same style and structure.

We read, we watched

We cried

We fell from our chairs in shock

We watched your pain and read your sorrow

You were nothing more than machines

We saw your future, rounded up like animals for the slaughter, the chamber and the bullet. Your dreams were shattered with your last breath; all that remain are your memories and your bones. From the ashes hear our plea. We won’t forget you. For we are the children whose dreams and lives are still here.

2. Be mindful of your perspective. Your poem should be from your perspective.

3. Utilise the same techniques employed by the authour.