Bomb Shelter Diary

Tom Benecke in the story changes because he almost experienced death from his situation with the paper, and he thinks how stupid would it be to die from falling from a tall apartment building because of the paper he was working on. After his situation he starts to appreciate his life and leaves to go see his wife

Summer Reading: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy Summary of section one Turner Buckminster is the son of the new minister of Phippsburg, Maine. He just moved from Boston, however he had a really hard time to fit in this community. In Phippsburg, people play baseball in a totally different way, Turner didn’t know how to swing the baseball bat properly. In this way, a churlish boy named Willis Hurd intimidated him when he went to play baseball.

While Werner and Volkheimer are trapped under the Hotel of Bee’s due to a bombing, they struggle to battle for their lives. Just as Werner thinks of giving up, Volkheimer says, “your sister, think of your sister” (211). This gives Werner a reason to fight to see Jutta again. Volkheimer was a mentor to Werner as he helped him

They knew that they no longer had control over their lives. Living in a place like that changed people drastically. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses characterization, imagery, and symbolism to show how awful his time in the concentration camps was and how it contributed to his loss of faith. Wiesel uses characterization of himself when he was a young boy and when he was a teenager in the concentration camps by explaining how much he loved his religion and how much more he wanted to learn about it and then by explaining how it regressed the longer he was in the concentration camps. When Elie Wiesel was 13 he believed in God more than anything else.

My Brother Sam Is Dead Chapter 1: Page 1-22 Sam is Tim Meeker 's older brother. Tim always looks up to his older brother. Sam then comes home in a uniform at the tavern during April. He starts out by saying "We 've beaten the British in Massachusetts," which sparks up a fight between him and his father which is a loyalist (someone who respects the government and the king). Sam has a discussion with the guests at their tavern and his family on how the Minutemen had surprise attack on the "Lobster backs" (the British) in Lexington.

Johnny a 16-year-old “gang pet” is Pony’s best friend, as they are two peas in a pod. Dally a 17-year-old who has already seen the inside of jail is tougher and more individual as he grew up without any love or guidance to lead him in the right direction. They all struggle to make a

Before Byron was always in trouble from playing with the matches to getting a conk, but when the family is safe and sound back in flint he’s a new person. He knows Kenny is going thru a tough time and instead of picking and bothering him about it he is more nicer about it, he checks on Kenny in his hiding place aka The World-Famous Watson Pet Hospital. The bombing was like Byron’s third death wake up call, it had been the third death that came up and surprised him, it also made him noticed he almost lost something really important. After the incident Byron begins to think about how he treats people, and instead of protecting himself, he starts protecting the people

All of Charlie’s life he has been wishing to be smart. One day Charlies wish came true, by having a special surgery down as an experiment by two doctors gives Charlie all the knowledge he's ever wanted but it's not permanent. In both of the stories, the main characters go through hard times; like Noah having to travel from Texas, the place he grew up in, to Colorado.

Here, Elie is reflecting on his first night in the camp. In his first night, Elie is separated from his mother and his sister forever. In his first night, Elie witnesses children- babies- being thrown into a fiery pit. In his first night, Elie marches closer and closer to what he believes will be his death until he and the other men turn to go to the barracks.

When Joey came to Paul’s house for homework, Erik and Arthur came home and humiliated him by making fun of his dead brother, Mike. “Arthur stopped and stared at Joey. He answered on their cruel wavelength. ‘I didn’t know Mohawk Man had a brother.’” (Bloor 113)

In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, from chapter three, Elie is a young sensitive boy with dreams, later on, all Jews had to go to work in the concentration camp. For example, Elie was full of hopes but the camp brought him a terrible experience, “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night…” (page 34) This shows that the author is who at first naive, he studied Kabbalah with Moishe, had nothing to worry about until the order came Germans threw to an abyss, had no rights. Furthermore, when he first came to the camp he knew nothing, until he witnessed his mother and sister walked farther, an old man fell on the ground and intermediately shot, from that moment he started to disbelief and

After campfire a group of young adventurers went out to explore in the dark for an hour. Seeing some mysterious things like sets of blue eyes in the open plane and hearing voices in the dark. This could have easily been from the scary stories told but who would know. After adventuring the NHS members went back to the dorm were they just shared stories and talked and socialize. These group of people are the funniest you will probably ever meet with a great sense of imagination.

“Get inside your house, monkey!” “Get inside and then we’ll burn it down!” “And once that’s down, you can join your wife and son!” “Nigger!”

After reading Teens Who Fought Hitler, by Lauren Tarshis, describes that ben’s family had to go throw all these challenges to fight hitler and get out of there but they could not all the jew’s got shoved into a ghetto so ben got out and started to get food for his family so they would not starve to death They had many challenges and historical background. First we are going to talk about historical background, One historical background “Germans were struggling since 1918, when it was defeated in world war 1.” Pg (6). Another historical background is “In the day’s before world war 2, when cams were happy and comfortable,nobody could conceive of such horrors.

The Glass Castle: Jeannette Walls- Responsibility Haileigh Williams Upon reading The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, the reader will quickly notice all of the responsibilities Jeannette; the author and narrator of the novel, takes on throughout her life. The book itself is a memoir of Jeannette’s life that takes place from 1963 to 2005 and takes the reader through the ups and downs of Jeannette’s life in poverty and somewhat neglect. While reading the novel, the reader will be shown situations where they will be shocked and heartbroken. Jeannette’s family isn’t the average family from the south.