Blog #3

I read the book "Personal effects" and it gets interesting when Matt finds out his brother is dead when he fought in the war in the beginning of the book and it gets way better in the rest of the book because of its drama and action. I have some connections to this book because I watch movies that some guys are in the war and they lose their family and this kinda reminds me of world war 2 because it's a war and Matt lost his brother and a lot of people lost their family in world war II. This book has a lot of interesting parts but some aren't that good because it gets boring sometimes. I would recommend this book to 8th and high schoolers because it's kinda hard to understand sometimes.


The rising action in this book are when Matt finds out his brother dies in the war and he has to be tough and get through his life without him. The plot in this book is when matt try's to figure out what happened and he get's caught when he does figure it out and his dad get's mad at him for not keeping a promise. The conclusion is when Matt learns a lesson and try's to get out of trouble and learns a lesson not to know because now he is in very deep trouble. Matt is my favorite character in this because I have connections to him and he is a lier about trying to get out of trouble just like me.

Blog #2

I Finished reading my book called "Personal Effects" and I think this book was one of the greatest I've read because this book is about a brother who has to be himself knowing that his brother was killed in the war. I wonder how his brother died because it never tells us how he did but I think he probably died by getting shot in battle or dying of natural causes. I also wonder where did he die because the book only says he died on his way to his mission so I wonder if he died in Iraq when the war was happening. One important question I have is when this book happened like what year, what month and what day.


The genre in this book is Realistic Fiction because it has a lot of parts that could happen but some parts can't really happen in real life. I like this book because of the genre because it is creative and it tells a lot of information and it makes me picture whats really going on in the book. Some parts in the book I didn't like because it get's boring and there is not that much action going on in the book. I still think this book is one of the best books I ever read because it's very descriptive and has a lot of imagery.

Blog #5

This is my second time writing about "The Devils Arithmetic" and it got more interesting in the book because it tells the readers more about what people went through during World War 2.  Hannah is the main character and she went through a lot when she got taken by the Nazis with her family. When she gets taken away her and her family meet a lot of new interesting people who want to help them. This book reminds me off when I went to the holocaust museum because I saw a lot of people getting killed by the gas chambers, getting shot but also some made it out of the war and there are still survivors today that actually want to tell what happened to them and that must be hard. I would refer to read this book because it can remind you of the war and and what happened to the people and what they been through.

The conflict in this book is Man vs self because Hannah has to be tough and try to get free and get away from the Nazis with her family and her friends that she met when she got there. Another conflict in this book is Man vs Man because she fights with her friend because she doesn't want to leave a family member behind to die by the Nazis. The book has a lot of conflicts but I think those are the main two because it tells what Hannah is going throughout the book.

The Devils Arithmetic Blog #4

In my Book call " The Devils Arithmetic"  by Jane Yolen there is this girl named Hannah. She is a Jewish girl and she lives in a Polish town. She lives in that town with her relatives and the year in this book is 1942. Suddenly the Nazis take over the whole town and take away all the people who are there. She doesn't know why she is there and doesn't want to be there with her relatives because all they do is talk about the past.


Some tough questions I have about this book is this all a dream or is all this happening? because it seems the events are real and this would happen in the 1940's because the Nazis didn't like any jews and wanted to get rid of them all. I haven't finished reading the book but I really want to know what happens later in the book and if this is really just a dream or it is real.

Holocaust Blog

I think people wanted to watch other people get killed because they only care about themselves and their family. They also are probably happy that it wasn't them who are getting treated how the other people were. Some people stood up for the people who are getting their lives taken away from them and some just watched. Some people tried to help but they failed to help the other people and they also got their lives taken away. I would've tried to help the people I could and try not to get caught and I think it's really sad for the people who were treated like this because they worked so hard for their families and they had to be locked up and see their family members killed and just be alone or with other people like strangers they don't even know. People were happy that the Germans ended war and the people could live a normal life whats left with their family's and they can be happy and won't have to see no more people die.