3/23/2017 0 Comments Spring break Over spring break, I went on a cruise with my mom, brother, and 6 other families (there were 32 of us all together.) The first port that we went to was in Roatan, and my mom knew a guy who lived there because he and my mom worked together when he still lived in Iowa, so he picked us up and took us to a restaurant. After we ate, he drove us around so we could explore the island a little bit more, and if there´s one thing I´ve learned from being in Roatan, it´s that I´d never want to drive in Roatan, people drive on the left side of the road whenever they feel like it and they´re full of pot holes. Later we went to the beach, and Avery, Ashlyn, and I tried to fly board. (The thing where you step on the platform thing and it jet packs you into the air with water.) After that we went back to the boat and slept because we were all really tired.
The second place we went to was Belize, but we didn´t get off the boat because we were all so tired. But after that we went to Cozumel, and we went to Paradise Beach and they had floating slides and things you could climb on in the middle of the water. We played on those for a while then Ashlyn, Avery, and I took a walk on the beach to try and find a place to get henna, while on the walk I kicked a medal chair and stubbed my middle toe and it hurt a lot, 10/10 would not recommend doing that. After the henna, we packed up and got back on the ship because we ran out of time. The last port we went to was Costa Maya and we went to Maya Beach. It was kind of windy and the sun wasn´t really out so it was a little cold which was a bummer but it was okay because we didn´t end up swimming anyways. We ate a lot of chips and salsa and drank a lot of virgin pina coladas. They had a street full of little shops so me and a few others started walking down there and we learned how to negotiate with the sales people, we got two pairs of sunglasses that were 20$ each for 12$ combined. By the time we were done shopping it was time to go back to the boat so we headed back and slept once again.
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1) Some similarities between Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas are that they both had Nazi propaganda in them, making it seem like the camps are more enjoyable then they actually are. Another example on how they´re similar is that the main character in both stories is a young boy, but a difference in that is Ellie, the main character in Night was a Jew and he was in the concentration camps, fully understanding everything that was going on. But Bruno, the main character in The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas was the son of a solider, and thought the camps were a place of fun where they wore pajamas and played all day, he had no idea what was actually going on inside there. Another difference is that in Night, there was no mentioning of Ellie having any interaction with people not in concentration camps, there was not a way for him to communicate with the outside world, but Bruno was able to go to the fences and talk with his friend Schmuel that was in the concentration camp without getting caught.
2) Bruno, the character in The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas was 8 years old, and he had brown hair and blue eyes. Bruno always wanted to explore and he wanted to become an explorer when he became a grown up. He knew about the Holocaust and the camps, but he did not fully understand what was going on in there, even though he always wanted to know. Bruno was very sensitive and caring to everyone, even to strangers, and that didn´t always put him in the best positions. But with Ellie, a character in Night, he did understand what was going on in the camps because he was in one, along with his father. he was 15 years old but he was told to lie about his age so he would appear as a good worker. Ellie never gave up even though he had his moments of thinking it was over. He fought for himself, and for his father who later died. The concentration camps took away almost everything from Ellie, including his faith in god. 3) My understanding of the Holocaust has become way clearer after reading Night and watching the movie. I knew very little about the Holocaust before we started this unit, but now I understand more about it. I learned that the age range for Jews to work in camps was about 15-40, and that the Women and people who were too old or injured to work would go directly to death camps and crematoriums. 4) I liked the movie The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas better than the book Night because I like movies more than books, but I also thought the movie was just a little bit more interesting than the book. 5) I have no other questions about the Holocaust |
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