Find and quote an image from the first two sections (through pg. 82) that we've read and respond to it -- good writing? shocking? surprising? Why?
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On page 52 it says, "Or his body didn't feel like crawling. That was a bad thing. It meant that death was standing next to you, waiting to step into your shoes." The mechanik was talking about the lice on him. This quote is good writng and gives a good image of what they had to go through and what he is thinking. It is a gross image and scary that if you don't have lice on you that was bad because it means death is near.
"The two men left the room and nearly bumped into the three women who were coming naked up the steps. Their skin was blue from the cold, and they shivered as they lugged the full buckets of water. There was no one on the street, and the village was silent.
Wiktor stood at attention behind the desk and watched as the women crawled over the floor and took turns standing on the chair to scrub the ceiling. It went on for a long time, and Wiktor was in the way, but he didn't dare move so much as a centimeter. His arm grew so heavy that it was a lead weight held up by his shoulder, and then it went numb. He stood and watched the women and wondered how much worse it would get before it got any better."
With a man coming to town there were new rules. Rules that you had to obey, or you would risk losing your life. A man didn't salute properly so he had to stand in a certain way until three innocent women were done cleaning. Three women that were found in the village and made to strip naked and clean.
"The Oberfuhrer sighed. As bad as the last village...And then he saw her. A woman with hair so heavy, so darkly gold it was like the hair of a girl you would dream about. Moving gracefully through the mud. Cheekbones a little too Slavic, but pure-blooded. Amythic girl, fertile and ripe. (81)
I picked this quote because it just shows that whoever the Oberfuhrer wants he gets. It's pretty sick too especially with what he does to her later in the story.
p. 35 " The man ran his hand through his hair. His eyes rolled like a horse hearing the aiplanes coming back over the fields. The white of his eyes showed for a second. "I couldn't help you with our mother. When she was sick I was in Rome. We'll be killed for this." This is father Piotr talking with Magda when they first find Hansel and Gretel. The quote kind of shows the severity of the situation of taking in the two kids and it potrays the tension betweem Maga and her brother.
"Or his body didn't feel like crawling. That was a bad thing. It meant that death was standing next to you, waiting to step into your shoes (52)." It's talking about how close people are to death and ways that they know if they are close. It's sad and kinda gross.
Oh oops, I just realized that Paige used this quote too...
Page 62: "He stopped skipping and stood stockstill... He ran up the steps ans scrubbed the dirty glass of the wibdow. Magda watched the boy and was amazed the glass was not broken. The windows of the church were all gone... She went up the stairs and peered into the school. It was enpty. The desks were long gone. Chopped up for firewood, she supposed. Mud was turning to dust on the wooden floor." 'Who are they?' he demanded." She raised her eyes to the wall where three pictures hung, dust covered but still staring out over the bare boards of the floor. On the left was Lenin." 'Beady-eyed bastard.' she whispered. 'It's Lenin on the left. the one with all the hair is Stalin, on the right.' A crucifux with Jesus on it hung between the two pictures." 'Jesus is hanging between two thieves like he always has.' she muttered. She grinned and spit on the porch."
I love that section. It is wonderfully written and you can see the little boy being curious about school and wanting to go and being curious about the pictures while the bitter old woman cusses under her breath so the children don't hear and mutters about her faith. It's amazing.
"This is Poland. This is Germany. But the rest of it, look now, the rest of it is the world." I picked this because maybe it has something to do with there is more than just Poland or Germany there is the world that the war is effecting. It relates to the story and the book at the same time. Because the book is about world war 2.
"Wait." the German was smiling. "I have an honor for you, girl. Because you have a German name, you can be the lucky child this week. Go to the store and tell them you will hand out the sugar. (68)"
Um gross can you say pedophile? I think that the soldier men are being given a perverted title and this one especially has a crush on poor little gretel. I think that the germans affection for gretel will cause for trouble.
"She had forgotten what it was to be able to stand perfectly still and not have the crawling in her hair and on her body, not have to scratch until the skin bleed." p.41 This is extremely descriptive where the reader gets grossed out by thinking about it and visualizing it, which is the point. This is very well written and gets the point across. It also shows what Gretel had to go through.
"the two men left the room and nearly bumped into the three women who were coming naked up the steps. their skin was blue from the cold, and they shivered as they lungged the full buckets of water. there was no on on the streeet, and the village was silent.
This qoute is good writing becuase it shows what they had to do. that the people weren't going to do anything to help them. It shows that everyone is only thinking about themselves and how that they all want the same thing and that is there lives.
A child stepped forward and turned his face up to Gretel. He opened his mouth, and Gretel gently poured the sugar onto his tongue. She could see the saliva that had flowed as he waited, a pool in his mouth that caught the sugar. Another child stepped up, and Gretel poured a spoonful of sugar in his mouth. At the end, she had a jar with only a little sugar in it. She looked at the Clerk and he nodded. Gretel turned to Hansel and tipped half the sugar into his mouth. It was more than a spoonful. She watched his eyes grow round as the pure sweetness, so much fuller than the sweetness of saccharin with its metallic taste afterward, filled his mouth. (pg.72)
I chose that quote because during this time, hardly anyone in the town had much food to eat. It shows the reaction from the children as they got sugar; the little food that they would get that day. Even with just a spoonful, they were happy. -Meghan
"Wiktor stood so erect that his skinny back bowed like a green sapling. He flung his arm out and stood perfectly still even his eyes fixed rigidly gazing ahead. "heil hitler"(81) I think this is very discriptive and shows an image of how cruel the people were to others. It also shows how people would do anything so they weren't killed.
"Wiktor translated and the women dropped their coats on the floor. The youngest looked at Frankel for a moment, and then they all stripped naked," (p. 80). I think this quote shows just how scared people were, and how horrible life was. They would literally do anything to spare their lives. I don't know how anyone could live like that, i can't even imagine.
"Teach them or die, sistr. Teach them or kill everyone-the villagers-" He paused and then went on. "Nelka. All of us." She took the beads reluctantly. "I'll teach them enough to answer the need. I'm not trying to make a priest and a nun." "Prehaps they were sent to save you!"
I like this section a lot because it makes you wonder if they're just teasing each other or seriously don't get along. I also thought it was ironic that the priest thinks that Magda needs to be more worshipful, when he broke his vow of celibacy.
On page 41 Nelka, Telek, Hansel, Gretel, and Magda are cleaning Magda's house to get rid of the lice.
"Get them, Nelka!" Hansel screamed. The lice were coming out of the walls and washing down to the floor. "Get the dirty things!"
I think this quote is shocking because I didn't know that lice infestations could get that bad, since the only lice I've ever heard about is lice in your hair.
It was a mistake. All of it. But no one said it out loud. Magda had always been seperate from the villages. Perhaps and disater would fall on her head alone, outside the circle of the houses.
This is terrible, I would think that the villagers would be more sympathetic to Magda and each other.
On page 62, I like the quote, "Jesus is hanging between two thieves like he always has." This is an interesting way to incorporate Jesus with the evils of the Germans in WWII. I like the connection of religion in this novel and the contrast of good and evil.
"Now, ladies. Take your underclotes and make nice rags." P.80 i chose this quote because it shows that the Oberfuhrer is a pig. He thinks that he is the Sh*t and the ladies prove him right every one does what he says
"Cars mean people who cause trouble. If they dont see us, then we have no trouble." (75) Its because if cars were driving past they were German soliders and the children were Jewish. They would be killed or sent to consentration camps. They would have to hide for their lives.If this was a movie their would be scary music going on.
I no longer have the book, but the bit where the Partisians derail the train and find the box car filled with frozen stiffs struck me as a very well written passage. Not just the discovery of the frozen dudes, but the whole scene.
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On page 52 it says, "Or his body didn't feel like crawling. That was a bad thing. It meant that death was standing next to you, waiting to step into your shoes." The mechanik was talking about the lice on him. This quote is good writng and gives a good image of what they had to go through and what he is thinking. It is a gross image and scary that if you don't have lice on you that was bad because it means death is near.
"The two men left the room and nearly bumped into the three women who were coming naked up the steps. Their skin was blue from the cold, and they shivered as they lugged the full buckets of water. There was no one on the street, and the village was silent.
Wiktor stood at attention behind the desk and watched as the women crawled over the floor and took turns standing on the chair to scrub the ceiling. It went on for a long time, and Wiktor was in the way, but he didn't dare move so much as a centimeter. His arm grew so heavy that it was a lead weight held up by his shoulder, and then it went numb. He stood and watched the women and wondered how much worse it would get before it got any better."
With a man coming to town there were new rules. Rules that you had to obey, or you would risk losing your life. A man didn't salute properly so he had to stand in a certain way until three innocent women were done cleaning. Three women that were found in the village and made to strip naked and clean.
"The Oberfuhrer sighed. As bad as the last village...And then he saw her. A woman with hair so heavy, so darkly gold it was like the hair of a girl you would dream about. Moving gracefully through the mud. Cheekbones a little too Slavic, but pure-blooded. Amythic girl, fertile and ripe. (81)
I picked this quote because it just shows that whoever the Oberfuhrer wants he gets. It's pretty sick too especially with what he does to her later in the story.
p. 35 " The man ran his hand through his hair. His eyes rolled like a horse hearing the aiplanes coming back over the fields. The white of his eyes showed for a second. "I couldn't help you with our mother. When she was sick I was in Rome. We'll be killed for this." This is father Piotr talking with Magda when they first find Hansel and Gretel. The quote kind of shows the severity of the situation of taking in the two kids and it potrays the tension betweem Maga and her brother.
"Or his body didn't feel like crawling. That was a bad thing. It meant that death was standing next to you, waiting to step into your shoes (52)." It's talking about how close people are to death and ways that they know if they are close. It's sad and kinda gross.
Oh oops, I just realized that Paige used this quote too...
Page 62: "He stopped skipping and stood stockstill... He ran up the steps ans scrubbed the dirty glass of the wibdow. Magda watched the boy and was amazed the glass was not broken. The windows of the church were all gone... She went up the stairs and peered into the school. It was enpty. The desks were long gone. Chopped up for firewood, she supposed. Mud was turning to dust on the wooden floor."
'Who are they?' he demanded."
She raised her eyes to the wall where three pictures hung, dust covered but still staring out over the bare boards of the floor. On the left was Lenin."
'Beady-eyed bastard.' she whispered. 'It's Lenin on the left. the one with all the hair is Stalin, on the right.' A crucifux with Jesus on it hung between the two pictures."
'Jesus is hanging between two thieves like he always has.' she muttered. She grinned and spit on the porch."
I love that section. It is wonderfully written and you can see the little boy being curious about school and wanting to go and being curious about the pictures while the bitter old woman cusses under her breath so the children don't hear and mutters about her faith. It's amazing.
"This is Poland. This is Germany. But the rest of it, look now, the rest of it is the world." I picked this because maybe it has something to do with there is more than just Poland or Germany there is the world that the war is effecting. It relates to the story and the book at the same time. Because the book is about world war 2.
"Wait." the German was smiling. "I have an honor for you, girl. Because you have a German name, you can be the lucky child this week. Go to the store and tell them you will hand out the sugar. (68)"
Um gross can you say pedophile? I think that the soldier men are being given a perverted title and this one especially has a crush on poor little gretel. I think that the germans affection for gretel will cause for trouble.
"She had forgotten what it was to be able to stand perfectly still and not have the crawling in her hair and on her body, not have to scratch until the skin bleed." p.41 This is extremely descriptive where the reader gets grossed out by thinking about it and visualizing it, which is the point. This is very well written and gets the point across. It also shows what Gretel had to go through.
"the two men left the room and nearly bumped into the three women who were coming naked up the steps. their skin was blue from the cold, and they shivered as they lungged the full buckets of water. there was no on on the streeet, and the village was silent.
This qoute is good writing becuase it shows what they had to do. that the people weren't going to do anything to help them. It shows that everyone is only thinking about themselves and how that they all want the same thing and that is there lives.
A child stepped forward and turned his face up to Gretel. He opened his mouth, and Gretel gently poured the sugar onto his tongue. She could see the saliva that had flowed as he waited, a pool in his mouth that caught the sugar. Another child stepped up, and Gretel poured a spoonful of sugar in his mouth. At the end, she had a jar with only a little sugar in it. She looked at the Clerk and he nodded. Gretel turned to Hansel and tipped half the sugar into his mouth. It was more than a spoonful. She watched his eyes grow round as the pure sweetness, so much fuller than the sweetness of saccharin with its metallic taste afterward, filled his mouth. (pg.72)
I chose that quote because during this time, hardly anyone in the town had much food to eat. It shows the reaction from the children as they got sugar; the little food that they would get that day. Even with just a spoonful, they were happy.
-Meghan
"Wiktor stood so erect that his skinny back bowed like a green sapling. He flung his arm out and stood perfectly still even his eyes fixed rigidly gazing ahead. "heil hitler"(81) I think this is very discriptive and shows an image of how cruel the people were to others. It also shows how people would do anything so they weren't killed.
Libby
"Wiktor translated and the women dropped their coats on the floor. The youngest looked at Frankel for a moment, and then they all stripped naked," (p. 80). I think this quote shows just how scared people were, and how horrible life was. They would literally do anything to spare their lives. I don't know how anyone could live like that, i can't even imagine.
"Teach them or die, sistr. Teach them or kill everyone-the villagers-" He paused and then went on. "Nelka. All of us." She took the beads reluctantly. "I'll teach them enough to answer the need. I'm not trying to make a priest and a nun." "Prehaps they were sent to save you!"
I like this section a lot because it makes you wonder if they're just teasing each other or seriously don't get along. I also thought it was ironic that the priest thinks that Magda needs to be more worshipful, when he broke his vow of celibacy.
On page 41 Nelka, Telek, Hansel, Gretel, and Magda are cleaning Magda's house to get rid of the lice.
"Get them, Nelka!" Hansel screamed. The lice were coming out of the walls and washing down to the floor. "Get the dirty things!"
I think this quote is shocking because I didn't know that lice infestations could get that bad, since the only lice I've ever heard about is lice in your hair.
It was a mistake. All of it. But no one said it out loud. Magda had always been seperate from the villages. Perhaps and disater would fall on her head alone, outside the circle of the houses.
This is terrible, I would think that the villagers would be more sympathetic to Magda and each other.
On page 62, I like the quote, "Jesus is hanging between two thieves like he always has." This is an interesting way to incorporate Jesus with the evils of the Germans in WWII. I like the connection of religion in this novel and the contrast of good and evil.
"Now, ladies. Take your underclotes and make nice rags." P.80 i chose this quote because it shows that the Oberfuhrer is a pig. He thinks that he is the Sh*t and the ladies prove him right every one does what he says
"Cars mean people who cause trouble. If they dont see us, then we have no trouble." (75)
Its because if cars were driving past they were German soliders and the children were Jewish. They would be killed or sent to consentration camps. They would have to hide for their lives.If this was a movie their would be scary music going on.
Cory Fey
I no longer have the book, but the bit where the Partisians derail the train and find the box car filled with frozen stiffs struck me as a very well written passage. Not just the discovery of the frozen dudes, but the whole scene.
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