Find a quotation from any pages between 148-277 and quote it (page number too); then respond/react to the quotation -- why is it important, powerful, meaningful in some way? How did or can you connect to it?
"The SS and the Brown Sister are finishing in Bialowieza. They'll be here soon. What about the children?" (150) This quote is important because they are talking about how Telek has to hurt all the "perfect" children in the village before they can be taken away from their parents. Telek does not think he should have to do this even though he drew the short straw because he thinks that the parents should take care of their own children.
"Courage in a woman's eyes made her face hard, arrogant. Even a rather ordinary woman achieved a delicate beauty when she was afraid." p.162 I found this very interesting comment made by the Oberfuhrer. He is talking about Nelka and he is talking about how he doesn't like fear, but in his eyes fear creates beauty. (well to him.) This is a little scary to read and gives the reader a better understanding of the character Oberfuhrer.
"She could have been raped. She's quite perfect, but her mind is no good anymore. These Polish children don't have strenght of German children. They break easily." This quote is made by Sister Rosa about Gretel. This is interesting because this shows how much higher they think of Germans than they do Polish people. This is also a little shocking that they don't care for the child's well being, but mearly for her breeding as if she is an animal and not a human being.
Nelka watched.How terrible can it be, she thought. I have made love with two men, my husband and Telek... I can go to Magda's and make a bath and scrub when he's done.Magda will make sure that i don't have a child form this, and besides, it's hard t oget pregnant when you're nursing a baby.(160)This qoute is important because he shows what Nelka has to do to keep her from losing her baby. She thinks that there is nothing wrong in doing this because she has done this before and it couldn't hurt her.
"The Nazis never would have fought us except for you Jews...We let you live here in our land, and millions of Poles died because of you."(265) Jedrik
This quote is important because many polish people probably hated the Jews because many polish people were killed because of them. I don't think that they should have felt this way because there were probably many Jews who were Polish as well. The Polish people should not blame the Jews for the Germans killing their people, they should blame the Germans for killing their people.
On page 163, the SS says to Nelka, "You are a chosen one, Nelka, and I am chosen also. But there is a difference. You are the giver. Your duty is to be drained of all you have to serve your masters." This quote hits home the idea of the Nazi power. The SS is displaying his power over the others in the village, in this case, he has complete power over Nelka as he takes her blood. I don't agree with the idea, but that is the way those people thought in those days and nothing could change their minds.
"Nelka moved toward Sister Rosa's house. She had to see if her baby was safe. She walked slowly, each step an effort, but didn't stop to rest. His sweet little body. He might be wrapped too loosely. he might be hungry. Nelka moved down the street looking for her baby. She had tos ee if it was true that he had been taken from her" (165) It is sad to read what had all happened during this time; hardly any food for anyone, the harm being done to people, and worst of all, the families being seperated. It would be difficult for many people to adjust to that, learning that they may never see eachother again. -Meghan
"They'd disliked him since his mother was left in poverty and then killed herself. No one in the village had liked him. The odd one. The boy who stayed in the forest and didn't speak much, and now they had a reason to fear him. He was a man who could torture children (156)." You would think that during such hard times, communities would unite as one and accept eachother. Telek is a good person and it upsets me that he is an outcast to his village. He did not chose to hurt the children, he was chosen. The villagers should have had enough courage to hurt their own children rather than be cowards and put the blame on poor Telek.
"'We'll have to make sure that there are no perfect children in our village.' He felt guilty saying it." (96).
He knows that they are going to have to mutilate the children in order to save them. It's important because it foreshadows what is to come in the conversation later and it shows how upset they are about it.
"She was dead now, and she knew it. Her own death filled her mind and everything else was driven out. Her mind became an empty hole with no memories, no words, just the gun and the bullet that was going to kill her. She didn't try to think anymore. There was nothing in her head but space and sunlight and the glitter of ice." (133)
This is important because it is showing how freaked out Gretel is but also how her mind is dealing with the thought of dying, it basically shuts down and then after she doesn't die, it kinda stays that way.
"Wiktor stared down at teh dest and cursed himself silently. All his creeping and crawling and his silences and his work. He has take a chance on throwing it all away for peasants in a mud village who weren't even his kin. But they were Poles, and Wiktor was still a Pole. The Nazis couldn't change that. Wiktor looked up, but the Oberfuhrer turned away when Nelka knocked," (pg. 200). This is important b/c he is looking at all this work he has done, and has not succeeded at all. It was all for nothing and nothing will ever come of it but he transormation of those who are chosen. He's a Nazi and he already feels failure.
"She could have been raped. She's quite perfect, but her mind is no good anymore. These Polish children don't have strenght of German children. They break easily."
It's quotes like this that make you wonder what would have happened if Germany would have won the war and continued to breed the Aryan race. With out politics, we'd probably be colonizing a different solar system by now.
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"The SS and the Brown Sister are finishing in Bialowieza. They'll be here soon. What about the children?" (150) This quote is important because they are talking about how Telek has to hurt all the "perfect" children in the village before they can be taken away from their parents. Telek does not think he should have to do this even though he drew the short straw because he thinks that the parents should take care of their own children.
"Courage in a woman's eyes made her face hard, arrogant. Even a rather ordinary woman achieved a delicate beauty when she was afraid." p.162 I found this very interesting comment made by the Oberfuhrer. He is talking about Nelka and he is talking about how he doesn't like fear, but in his eyes fear creates beauty. (well to him.) This is a little scary to read and gives the reader a better understanding of the character Oberfuhrer.
"She could have been raped. She's quite perfect, but her mind is no good anymore. These Polish children don't have strenght of German children. They break easily." This quote is made by Sister Rosa about Gretel. This is interesting because this shows how much higher they think of Germans than they do Polish people. This is also a little shocking that they don't care for the child's well being, but mearly for her breeding as if she is an animal and not a human being.
Nelka watched.How terrible can it be, she thought. I have made love with two men, my husband and Telek... I can go to Magda's and make a bath and scrub when he's done.Magda will make sure that i don't have a child form this, and besides, it's hard t oget pregnant when you're nursing a baby.(160)This qoute is important because he shows what Nelka has to do to keep her from losing her baby. She thinks that there is nothing wrong in doing this because she has done this before and it couldn't hurt her.
"The Nazis never would have fought us except for you Jews...We let you live here in our land, and millions of Poles died because of you."(265) Jedrik
This quote is important because many polish people probably hated the Jews because many polish people were killed because of them. I don't think that they should have felt this way because there were probably many Jews who were Polish as well. The Polish people should not blame the Jews for the Germans killing their people, they should blame the Germans for killing their people.
On page 163, the SS says to Nelka, "You are a chosen one, Nelka, and I am chosen also. But there is a difference. You are the giver. Your duty is to be drained of all you have to serve your masters." This quote hits home the idea of the Nazi power. The SS is displaying his power over the others in the village, in this case, he has complete power over Nelka as he takes her blood. I don't agree with the idea, but that is the way those people thought in those days and nothing could change their minds.
"Nelka moved toward Sister Rosa's house. She had to see if her baby was safe. She walked slowly, each step an effort, but didn't stop to rest. His sweet little body. He might be wrapped too loosely. he might be hungry. Nelka moved down the street looking for her baby. She had tos ee if it was true that he had been taken from her" (165)
It is sad to read what had all happened during this time; hardly any food for anyone, the harm being done to people, and worst of all, the families being seperated. It would be difficult for many people to adjust to that, learning that they may never see eachother again.
-Meghan
"They'd disliked him since his mother was left in poverty and then killed herself. No one in the village had liked him. The odd one. The boy who stayed in the forest and didn't speak much, and now they had a reason to fear him. He was a man who could torture children (156)." You would think that during such hard times, communities would unite as one and accept eachother. Telek is a good person and it upsets me that he is an outcast to his village. He did not chose to hurt the children, he was chosen. The villagers should have had enough courage to hurt their own children rather than be cowards and put the blame on poor Telek.
"'We'll have to make sure that there are no perfect children in our village.' He felt guilty saying it." (96).
He knows that they are going to have to mutilate the children in order to save them. It's important because it foreshadows what is to come in the conversation later and it shows how upset they are about it.
"She was dead now, and she knew it. Her own death filled her mind and everything else was driven out. Her mind became an empty hole with no memories, no words, just the gun and the bullet that was going to kill her. She didn't try to think anymore. There was nothing in her head but space and sunlight and the glitter of ice." (133)
This is important because it is showing how freaked out Gretel is but also how her mind is dealing with the thought of dying, it basically shuts down and then after she doesn't die, it kinda stays that way.
"Wiktor stared down at teh dest and cursed himself silently. All his creeping and crawling and his silences and his work. He has take a chance on throwing it all away for peasants in a mud village who weren't even his kin. But they were Poles, and Wiktor was still a Pole. The Nazis couldn't change that. Wiktor looked up, but the Oberfuhrer turned away when Nelka knocked," (pg. 200). This is important b/c he is looking at all this work he has done, and has not succeeded at all. It was all for nothing and nothing will ever come of it but he transormation of those who are chosen. He's a Nazi and he already feels failure.
"She could have been raped. She's quite perfect, but her mind is no good anymore. These Polish children don't have strenght of German children. They break easily."
It's quotes like this that make you wonder what would have happened if Germany would have won the war and continued to breed the Aryan race. With out politics, we'd probably be colonizing a different solar system by now.
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