Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The boy in the striped PJ's Chapter 9

Lieutenant Kolter was represented as another high person and the way that he walks around is that he is very proud and yet representing the Germans as the superior race. He also walks very arrogantly

Herr Liszt is going to change Bruno's way of thinking and imagination. Also to get rid of storybooks and where Bruno really comes from.

The connection is that the soldiers are very clean and friendly to Bruno while Bruno thinks that the people in pajamas are bad and mean people, he also makes a connection of separation and yet he can't make out that one is actually controlling the other. Plus, the Jews and Soldiers in their own group also wear the same uniform.

Bruno began to take notice that the people in the uniforms look very serious while the pajamas people look scared and not like Bruno. There is also the power in balance as the Soldiers hold and that the Jews don't

Chapter 10

1. It shows that they are normally insignificant like a dot and so when Bruno learns more, it starts to really form into similar things and when Bruno finally knows a lot.

2. It creates a special connection between the boys as if some kind of friendship and juxtapostition: Born same day even though living in different lives.

3. They were arguing about agreeing and disagreeing about soldiers. Bruno broke the argument saying about good soldiers and bad soldiers

4. This reveals that Bruno has no idea what was going on. Shumel thinks that Bruno is not intelligent and ignorant but then he realized that Bruno really had no idea and then shows that Bruno is innocent.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The boy in the striped PJ's Chapter 7

1. The mother's defense of Herr Roller is very ironic because she had known him for a long time. But then, she says that Herr Roller is very royal in the country meaning she is saying that war is good

2. Kolter's role in historical times is not just a soldier but very similar to Bruno's childhood and a Auschwitz guard and a rich person like Bruno. Also a representative of the perfect race Hitler talked about.

3. The character that Kolter is juxtaposed as a rough and bad person and so is just like Bruno's father. This shows that nearly most of  the characters who are soldiers are very rough and mean

4. The interaction of Bruno and Pavel is that it is much more calm and that it is not an order from Bruno to do something. In fact, Bruno was acting very nice to Pavel because Bruno is in pain and Pavel is helping him heal the wounds so Bruno talks nicely to Pavel.

5. Juxtaposition is a key element to the holocaust story because people would tell the stories of the Holocaust in different characters and different point of views.

The boy in the striped PJ's Chapter 7

1. The mother's defense of Herr Roller is very ironic because she had known him for a long time.

2. Kolter's role in historical times is not just a soldier but very similar to Bruno's childhood and a Auschwitz guard and a rich person like Bruno

3. The character that Kolter is juxtaposed as a rough and bad person and so is just like Bruno's father. This shows that nearly most of  the characters who are soldiers are very rough and mean

4. The interaction of Bruno and Pavel is that it is much more calm and that it is not an order from Bruno to do something. In fact, Bruno was acting very nice to Pavel because Bruno is in pain and Pavel is helping him heal the wounds so Bruno talks nicely to Pavel.

5. Juxtaposition is a key element to the holocaust story because people would tell the stories of the Holocaust in different characters and different point of views.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Boy in Striped PJ's- Chapter 6

1. The radical shift is that Bruno finds out who Maria really is and that she is a person just like Bruno. When she was young, she was given work to do from Bruno's Father and has taken care of her like another family member. This shows now that Bruno is starting to learn responsibility and things that he is supposed to do himself.

2. At this point, Bruno now treated her as a person but Gretel still treats Maria as a nobody and always gives orders because she has never heard about Maria's tale. Bruno now acts kindly while Gretel still acts like she is spoiled.

3. It is for Bruno stop complaining about this and worrying his parents to death. She gives this advice because she does not want to lose her job. I think that this is good advice

4. Bruno's reactions is that he now starting to cry and get angry because of how he and his sister are treating Maria. He reacts this way because he is trying to do something that is wrong but then he was being stopped by Maria

Holocaust poetry #2

1. The imagery used are suffering, murder and sadness: Some examples are that "and filled their little bellies not with bread but bullets". Little tiny bodies with horror on their face with bullet holes with blood pouring out of them.

2. The effect of simile is that the poet compares Christmas tradition with Jews slaughtered by Nazis.

3. The alliteration is used in the poem is as saying that the Danube is the river and that the children are like tiddlywinks and thrown into the river

4. They juxtapose by saying that saying because Jews are being persecuted by animals and Nazi's standing proud and as the Major Race.

5. It means that the bodies had been going through the seas and all around Europe before going to the homeland and then them dying and going to heaven.

Boy in the Striped pajamas- Chapter 5

1. It is because that even though Bruno's father causes a lot of the action, the author shows that he is not important and so he shows how powerful he is and too powerful so that he was later described in the book.

2. This theme introduced the part on where Bruno's father is trying to be ambitious to get an even higher position and to do that harm more people as Bruno's Father was assigned by this job from "The Fury" when he came for dinner. As after the day The Fury came for dinner, they started to move to Out-With, the father thought of trying to make a better life was giving a lot of harm to his family. This shows that he is very selfish and is always self-centered so therefore, he was

3. Bruno's father speaks to him as if Bruno was his very cherished son. But even though he talks very kindly to Bruno, the father is not very happy when talking to the soldiers.

4. Bruno's way of speaking the world is about basically a very young kid because he doesn't know about the Wehrmacht and that his Father is at least in a very high position and just one rank below Der Fuhrer or the Fury in Bruno's way. Bruno also said that the Jews think they are people but the father said they don't

5. The father rationalizes the things that Bruno says by sometimes interrupting and laughing at him and can upset Bruno and saying things to try and tell the truth.

6. It is when he goes around the desk, it shows how weak he was when he was at childhood and that when Father is at the desk, he is very powerful

7. I do not think the Father really cares about Bruno because it says in the book that he had interrupted Bruno because none of the rules of normal family every applied to him.

8. He does not because he does not know who Hitler is even though Hitler is named "The Fury"

9. The juxtaposition of this description is that he that he is basically stowed away like the Jews.

10. Bruno's reason for not talking to the Jews on the train is because, they look poor to him. This shows that Germans have more welfare than the Jews showing a lot in power of money.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Holocaust imagery: Hitler at a Nazi Rally



  1. How are vectors used in this image? What effect does it have?
  2. Describe the composition of the image and what is tells us about the Nazis and Hitler.
  3. How is symmetry used? What effect does it have?
  4. What effect does this picture being in black and white have?
  5. Discuss the use of line in this image. What effect does it have?
The vectors used in the image is the size of the people, basically, the small the person, the weaker the power, in this art, Hitler is probably the biggest in the photo despite the stairs where Hitler is climbing up, it shows that Hitler has more power then any other High-ranking Nazi officer. Also used to focal the point of the image (Adolf Hitler), the flags also show a few points of the image too. Gives us point that Hitler has a lot of power and that he is an important character in history

The composition of the image is that the Nazis and Hitler are more clearly shown because they have the ones that have more power that the citizens who are blurred out because they are weak. 90% of people in the image are citizens who are pushed across the side. The stairs in the picture shows that Hitler will be rising to power.

Symmetry is used by showing straight lines when compared to Hitler since he is standing straight while marching up the stairs. He is in the middle of the symmetry line of this picture as the other officers are sometimes not standing straight and are placed not in a good part of symmetry.

The effect showing that this picture is Black and White has many effects: Shows that this picture is very old, the people are not happy and that this is a picture of bad people, they drain the happiness removing all emotion and making it very serious, it also makes them ruthless killers. All the citizens are white and the soldiers are black which shows a difference which shows the Nazi's are more important because they have more power. The color white of the citizens shows innocence and hope while black from the soldiers shows darkness and evil.

The use of lines show that the citizens in the background have very curve lines while the soldiers are sharp and straight.