"Brief Love"

1. What really bothered me was the description of Miriam's urine wetting Jacob's pants. It was a bit repulsive that there wasn't anything for the people to use to relieve themselves. I'm sure anything would have been better than wetting yourself. Its really humiliating and degrading. The whole ordeal was not very humane.

2. I wonder where these people were coming from. What was their life like before? Did Jacob and Miriam come from the same ghetto, but never meet each other? It would be interesting to know these things.

3. The connections I made were that, often when people are going through the same situation, they form a sort of bond. Everyone still pulls together in a time of need.

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foreshadowing

• people do not believe beadle

I believe that the residents of Moishe were going to be sent to a concentration camp, most likely the Auschwitz. It was very likely that people would be tortured and then murdered. Its very unlikely that anyone would escape alive or unharmed, whether it was mentally or physically.

I believe that the protagonist will have to witness the death of his family, whether it is them waiting in line to die, or they are actually shot.

• forced to move into ghettos
• officers move into Jewish homes
• Jews were given curfews
• lost their valuables
• forced to wear yellow star
• Moishe the Beadle--warns the Jews of Sighet
• German Army enters city--Gestapo enter ghettos
• news announcements on the radio
• Friend from Hungarian police tries to warn them of danger by knocking on the window
• night references
• Jews standing in transport line and no one would provide water
• Elie's father has a look of horror on his face, when returned from council meeting.

The Holocaust: Right or Wrong

These are things that I know about the Jewish Holocaust:

• was a persectution the Jewish people
• Jews had to wear the star of david on their clothing to identify themselves
• many were sent to concentration camps
• Hitler believed that eveyone should be blonde with blue eyes, and the jews often did not fit this description
• many were killed by a gas chamber or acid showers
• families were split up
• many Jews went into hiding
• Krystallnacht was the burning of the synogogue. It means "night of the broken glass" for all of the windows of jewish homes that were shattered.
• many Jews fled to America, where they were gladly accepted
• Some Jews in concentration camps were genetically experimented on, and often killed
• living conditions were filthy and unhealthy

What we know about the Holocaust

• Jews had to wear stars for indentification and moved to the ghettos.
• Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and a few catholics were transported in cattle cars and placed in concentration camps. When recieved at concentration camps, victims were killed, raped, mistreated.
• killing consisted of gas, shooting, cremate, killings also in ghetto
• Krystallnacht was the burning of the synogogue. "Night of the Broken Glass" for all of the shattered windows of the Jewish homes.
• Jewish people were turned away from their jobs and jewish businesses were often closed down.
• Jewish children were removed from schools
• Hitler wanted a pure Aryan race (blonde hair blue eyes)
• Hitler was part Jewish

Essay Thesis

John's intellectual journey is shown through his survival skills, his knowledge as a priest's son, and his understanding of the Gods.

Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck

Prereading: none
Plot/Reaction: Summary of Story
Questions: Two Questions you have
Quotes: One significant quote

Plot: Elisa Allen lives on ranch with her husband, Henry. Elisa is very talented when it comes to growing and tending chysanthemums, so you could say she has a green thumb. Henry sold his cattle and wants to celebrate by taking Elisa out to dinner and a movie, but first he has some work to do. Elisa is working on her chrysanthemums when a run-down and homely wagon pulls up he driveway, carrying a bargainer. He tells her that he will sharpen knives and scissors and can also fix broken pots. She tells him that she has nothing that needs to be fixed, but she takes a small interest in the stranger. The man tells Elisa that he has a client who would love to grow chrysanthemums, so Elisa gets everything together so that this client could grow the chrysanthemums on her own. She tells the man all of the instructions and find a pot for him to fix, since she would feel guilty if he didn't get enough money for food that night. He finally leaves, and she starts to get ready for her night out with her husband. On the way into town, she drives by a bundle, her chrysanthemums.

Questions: Why would Elisa take a sudden interest in things that she disliked?
Why was Elisa ashamed of her planter's hands when she created such
beautiful chrysanthemums?

Quote: "She felt ashamed of her strong planter's hands, that were no use, lying palms up in her lap."

"The Lottery" mapped out

Setting
-small village
-June 27th
-10:00 in the morning
-flowers and rich green grass
-clear and sunny

Children
-Children collect stones
-playing
-school just got out [talking about class and teachers]
-represent innocence

Men
-talked about the weather, tractors, taxes
-jokes were quiet and they smiled instead of laugh

Women
-gossiping
-standing by their husbands' sides

Mr. Summers
-participates in the community/leader
-had a lot of energy
-round-faced, jovial man
-summers symbolizes life, and he conducts death

Mr. Graves
- the post guardian
-very ominous name
-stiff

Mrs. Hutchinson
-jovial in the beginning
-dynamic character

Point of View
-objective

Conflicts
-person vs. society: Mrs. Tess Hutchinson vs. society

Exposition
-June 27th and people are congregating in the town center Mr. Summers comes with black box

Rising Action
-the children assemble and the boys start to stuff their pockets with stones and make a stone pile
-the men gathered and talked while waiting for the lottery and the women stood by their husbands
-Mr. Summers arrived with the black box and stirred up the papers inside
-the lottery was declared open
-the official business was done [swearing-in Mr. Summers]
-Mrs. Hutchinson arrives, late. Attention is drawn to her.
-the heads of the household were called upon to take a slip of paper
-there was discussion between people about other places that had given up the lottery, while the papers were being chosen
-Bill Hutchinson chooses the black dot
-Tess objects
-all Hutchinson's pick out of the black box

Climax
Tess "wins" the lottery

Falling Action
-villagers start to casually pick up stones and encircle her

Resolution
-Tess yells "It isn't fair" and the villagers come upon her

Foreshadowing
-the year seems to have gone too quick
-villagers are anxious
-children collect stones
-black box represents death
-mr. graves

Irony
-the lottery was expected to be aout money, when in reality the lottery signified death
-the names

Themes
-traditions should be questioned and changed when neccesary
-speak up to injustices even when they aren't happening to you
-we as humans are both capable of good and evil