Weekly Blog 11/5/14

The Boy On The Wooden Box 

By: Leon Leyson

Pages: 110-173

Question Prompt:

Describe the major conflict. What side are you on?
Warning: Might Spoil Book


            The major conflict in the story is that the Germans/Nazis are treating Jews like they are animals and not humans. It takes place during the time of the Holocaust. Jews were being sent to concentration camps where they were convinced that they would not be able to leave alive. A lot of them didn't. They would get randomly beaten, shot, and killed by the soldiers assigned to their camp. They lived every moment in fear. Fear of a soldier coming into their room and beating them in front of their kids or taking their most precious belongings.

       
             The main character is a Jew. He went through a lot of stuff that a kid his age shouldn't have to go through. His father was beaten in front of him and arrested. Soldiers were demanding anything valuable that they had after they broke into his home. He and his family were forced out of their home into what he described as "hell". The place that he was forced into, seemed like a jail and had barely enough space for him and his family. They were given very little to eat. They were treat very badly.

          I am on the Jews' side because the Germans were discriminating them. I don't like discrimination. "Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover" The Germans were treating them badly just because they were Jews. The Jews didn't do anything to them. How would the soldiers feel if people treated them badly just because they are German? I don't think they would like it very much.

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