Over spring break, I got to hang out with my friends, sleep in, and towards the end, go skiing. On Monday I hung out by myself, slept in, and watched Netflix all day. Tuesday, my friend Lucy came over and we had a sleepover. It was a lot of fun, we ordered Dominos. On Wednesday, I watched Netlix again for most of the day, and in the evening, went over to my friend Lauryn's house for a sleepover. We stayed up pretty late playing games and watching movies. Thursday I hung out by myself and packed, because the next day I was flying to Colorado. Friday I slept in (again) and at around 12 we headed to the airport.
We flew into Denver, and drove from there to Vail, the place we would be skiing. We ate dinner and walked around the town some. Me and my mom went down to the hotel pool. I love ski villages, because they're all really cute. The buildings are all different pastel colors, and there are lots of little shops. The next day, we got up, put our lift passes on, and got our skis. The only thing I hate about skiing is the boots. My dad put me on skis as soon as I could walk, but I still hate the boots. They're really stiff and hard to walk in, and after a while of walking in them your shins and heels and basically your whole leg from the knee down starts to hurt. Anyway, we skiied from about 9:30 to 2. The next day, we got up and did about the same thing. At 1ish we headed back to the airport, and flew home.
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1. One difference between Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the main character is a German boy, and it does not focus mostly on the concentration camp or the Jews in it, but rather how Bruno's, the main character's, life is affected by it. In Night, the main character was a Jew, and they did not go into the Germans' lifestyle at all.
One similarity is that there seem to be conflicted characters in both. For example, in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Bruno's mother, and maybe even his father, don't completely agree with what the Nazis are doing. In Night, the dentist was very nice to Elie, and treated him with respect and kindness, unlike the soldiers at the camp. 2. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, I thought Bruno's mother was an interesting character. She had dark hair and blue eyes, just like Bruno. She was very protective of her children, and would not let Bruno out of the front yard. She also seemed conflicted at the beginning, because her husband was a Nazi soldier, but she did not agree with what they were doing to the Jews. 3. At the beginning of this unit, I did not know that there were two types of concentration camps, death camps and labor camps. I thought the Nazis killed Jews as soon as they got there, and did not realize that they often had to go through months and even years of starvation, abuse, and extreme labor. 4. I liked The Boy in the Striped Pajamas more than Night. I enjoyed them both, but I think in the movie I could connect with the characters more. I could really understand their situation, and I think it made the whole thing more real for me. It was hard to realize that these things had really happened as I was reading the book, but it was easier seeing people actually act it out. |
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March 2017
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