What is the major problem faced by your character(s)? All of the victims we are reading about are living with multiple difficulties. In addition to the central issue, what other daily conflicts do the characters experience?
Remember to use the conflict vs. society, character, self, language. Are the problems chiefly internal or external?
The deadline for this blog is Wednesday, November 21.
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In the autobiography, The Cage, Ruth deals with many problems every hour. The greatest conflict she and her family encounter is character vs. society. They are Jewish and the Nazi regime has created “the final solution to the Jewish problem”: mass extermination. From the opening of the book, one crisis after another challenges Ruth. Her mother is chosen in a selection for the camps. A Gestapo officer physically abuses Ruth on the street. The four siblings are going to be separated, but somehow Ruth manages to convince the authorities to allow her to adopt her three younger brothers.
Her family is confined to the Lodz ghetto and there new problems arise. Her youngest brother contracts TB and dies, character vs. nature. It is a brutally cold winter, Ruth is sick. The ghetto authorities decide to tear down their home for heating wood, so she and her two brothers are forced to move to an empty grocery store.
These daily life-threatening conflicts are faced and dealt with by Ruth, who is only 16 years old. She demonstrates incredible maturity and will to live throughout her ordeal.
In my book “Ten Thousand Children” the conflict character vs. society . the conflict is that this awful form of genocide is happening all kids captured by the SS are being exterminated in the furnaces. To solve problem the kids in my story go on what is called a kinder transport where their parents send them to live with foster parents in a safe company. The conflict is external
Number of Stars, by Lois Lowry
The major conflict on my book is characters vs. society. The Nazis have come to deport the Jews of Denmark, but many of them in Copenhagen escape because they were warned by their Rabbi and the Resistance in Denmark. The next major conflict is characters vs. characters. Ellen comes to live with the Johansens as their oldest daughter Lise, who was killed three years earlier by the Nazis, but one night the soldiers come looking for Ellen's family in the Johansens. Although they suspected the Ellen wasn't actually a member of the family, the Nazis leave. Scared that they might return, Mama takes Kristi, Ellen, and Annemarie to her brother's home, which just across a sea to Sweden. Annemarie's Uncle is a member of the Resistance, and he, along with many other fisherman, take Jews on their boats and smuggle them across to Sweden. When the fisherman smuggle the Jews, they have special handkerchiefs to kill the Nazis' search dogs' sense of smell, so that the dogs can't smell the Jews hiding on the ships. the climatic conflict is when Ellen father drops the handkerchief and Annemarie has to run to the docks to give it to him without getting caught by the wandering Nazis. This is a character vs. characters conflict because on her way to the dock, Annemarie is stopped by the Nazis with dogs. The Nazis, suspicious of everyone, go through Annemarie's basket where she is hiding the handkerchief. However, even when the dogs find the handkerchief, it kills their sense of small. Finally the Nazis leave Annemarie alone and she gets the handkerchief to her Uncle a few minutes before the Nazis came to search his boat.
Cody
If Not Now, When?
In this story the two main characters, Mendel and Leonid, have dwindled down to one, Mendel. This is the result of a character versus character conflict and the way the narrator wants to keep the reader hooked. Mendel and Leonid are booth Jews who have joined a band of Red Army artisans and other partisans. They obviously have the issue of being targeted by the Germans, but Mendel and Leonid are experiencing issues between each other and other characters. The first major issue that is proclaimed in the book is one of which is between Mendel, Leonid, and Line (one of the only girls in the partisan band.) When Mendel and Leonid first joined the band they formed friends with everyone, but as time progressed Leonid became very interested in Line. They soon formed a steady relationship and everyone knows it.
Mendel sees the two together and he becomes a little envious, not to the point of obsession, but a little. One night after Leonid goes to bed Mandel and Line wake up and go into a separate room privately, I shouldn't have to say the rest..... When Mendel wakes up the next morning he finds that Leonid is gone and he took his gun with him. Mendel looks for Leonid and finds him he convinces the other partisans that Leonid is not suicidal.
For a few days Leonid does not talk to Mendel and Mendel suspects it is because of the "moves" that he made on Line. However, one night as Mendel is out collecting firewood he is accompanied by Leonid who starts a conversation with him it is about the bad leader, Gedelah.
"You caught on, too, haven't you?"
"Caught on to what?"
"That we've been sold out. We cant fool ourselves any more. We've been sold out, and he sold us."
"Who?" Mendel asked dumbfounded.
Leonid lowered is voice. "Him, Gedelah. But there was nothing else he could do: they were blackmailing him, he was a puppet in their hands."
Because of this talk with Leonid, Mendel does not know what to believe. This poses a problem between characters therefore it is an external problem.
Jack's sister was send to live with Jack's aunt. Jack was left with his father,mother and little brother. His father decided that Jack,his mother and brother should leave their house and go to stay with their grandfather. I think that is when Jack's major problems began. He had to leave his father alone and stay with his grandfather and care about his mother and little brother. Within 3 weeks after the family arrived in their grandfather's,the Nazis invaded the town. Jack an his family had to leave and stay with their uncle. Jack like a real men went to work and earn some money for his family. But soon his uncle's town was invaded too.
Jack tried to stay to his mother and brother as close as he could. At first it was possible,cuz it seemed that Nazis were not going to separate the families,but how wrong they were. In the middle of the journey,as usual Nazis separated women and children from the men and Jack was left all alone by himself. Now he had to fight till the day he dies or if he is lucky till the day when they will be liberated by Americans or Soviet Union.
I think that in this conflict:character vs characters,self and language.
1)Jack was fighting against Nazis
2)Fighting other prisoner who would do everything in order to survive.
3)He was sometimes fighting his own thoughts.
4)The last,he couldn't talk his native language,he had to learn German language in order to understand the Nazis.
The Diary Of A young Girl
by Anne Frank
Anne has a lot of conflict with her mother. She is living in a secret annex with her family and many others and I think it’s just been over whelming for her.
Quote:
“Dearest Kitty,
I’m seething with rage, yet I can’t show it. I’d like to scream, stamp my foot, give Mother a good shaking, cry and I don’t know what else because of the nasty words, mocking looks and accusations that she hurls at me day after day, piercing me with arrows from a tightly strung bow, which are nearly impossible to pull from my body. I’d like to scream at Mother, Margot, the van Daans, Dussel and Father too: Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don’t cry myself to sleep with my eyes burning and my head pounding. let me get away, away from everything, away from this world! But I can’t do that. I can’t let them see my doubts, or the wounds they’ve inflicted on me. I couldn’t bear their sympathy or their good humored derision. It would only make me want to scream even more.”
Everyone living in the secret annex is having conflicts with one another, it’s not just Anne. Anne thinks that her Mother loves and cares about her sister Margot more than her. All this conflict is character vs. character. It is an external conflict. Anne often writes about the plans and shootings she can hear at night and it scares her. She has to go in with her Father to sleep with him during the night. This is a character vs. society conflict.
No Pretty Pictures
-Anita Lobel
In this book, there's more then the obvious conflict. There was a character vs. character. The mother of the children causes trouble for them whenever she goes where to are.. They also have to worry about not being killed when they run a selection. Another character vs. character conflict is that no one is sure when or if they will survive the Holocaust and so they all worry about it. Soon, Hanusia and her brother were taken to the barracks with woman who were nice and treated them better.
One day, they were taken from the concentration camps. They were being saved. The end up going to Sweden. There, they would be examined for any medical problems and they would be fed good food. Another conflict was that Hanusia was scared that they were just being set up because everyone was being treated good. This was a character vs. character and character vs. self. After her x-rays were taken, she knew that everything would be alright. That's pretty much where I ended up right now.
The problem in Number The Stars is for Annemarie to help her parents smuggle the Rosens to Sweden. This problem is a character vs. society because Hitler and the Nazis hate the Jews and want them out of Germany. So as the Nazis try and evacuate the Jews the Johanson try and plan out a route for the Rosens to escape. There are little problems Annemarie runs into like when Mr. Rosen left the secret package behind she had to run through the woods and get to her Uncle Henrick's boat before he left. The secret package was a handkerchief that had rabbit blood and cocaine on it which helped smuggle the Rosens to Sweden. She was stopped in the woods by Nazis soldiers who questioned her about where she was going. She made it to the docks on time to give the secret package to her uncle. This is a character vs. self because she didn't know if she could make it or not.
In “Anna Is Still Here,” there are many problems that go on through out the book. The major issue is that Anna has to go into hiding because she is Jewish, so her parents tell her to go into the woods and there will be someone there to pick her up and t keep her safe. This conflict is character vs. society because of how there is one character that is being targeted and then the society against her. There are many other problems that are going on in the book as well, like the parents of Anna not wanting her to go to a friends house because they think that she will hurt. A lot of people in the book think everybody is out to get them. The mom and dad have a problem with other people so that would be character vs. character, there was not a lot of good events going on in the book but in the end when everybody gets along and they go and visit each other often.
''Ten Thousand Fists''
The major problem faced by the characters in the book i am reading is that the children are going away from there parents for a long time and sometimes forever. They are also trying to get to safe countries through the Kindertransport. Other daily issues they face are working for free. Not seeing their families for over 4 years. Or some of them not being treated well. Being depressed about missing friends and family. The book is a mix between character vs. society because the children are hated by the Nazis because of being Jewish. And character vs. self because of not being able to speak the language of the country they are in. The problems seem to me to be external. Mainly because they are being shipped away from their homes so they aren't put into the gas chambers or burnt.
The Dairy Of A Young Girl: Anne Frank
Conflicts
The major conflict in my story is when Anne and her family has to go into hiding into secret annexes. They had to go into hiding because they got a letter saying that Margaret was going to be taking away by the Gestapo so they went and took there things and moved into secret annexes to get away from the Nazis so they did not send them into a labor camp or death camp. This conflict is external because it is character versus society.
Another conflict is character versus self when Anne is feeling guilty because all of her friends and family members are going away and being killed in the force labor camp and death camps. Anne's says I wonder if they think of me and what they might say?
There is one last conflict and it is between her and they others in secret annexes because they think Anne is childish and should not know the things she knows about different things.
We Are Witnesses by Jacob Boas
In the last story I read, the story of Eva Heyman, there five major conflicts. The obvious conflict is that Eva was considered Jewish. Even though her father was Christian, her mother (Agi) was Jewish; therefore Eva was considered a Jew. Society did not accept that she was even partially a Jew. She was sent to the ghetto to live with thirteen other Jewish people where they all would later be taken to a concentration camp. Here she would be killed at the age of thirteen. This is an external, character vs. society conflict.
In the very beginning it talks about how Eva’s parents are divorced. That is a character vs. character, external conflict between Eva’s mother and father. That one conflict leads to many more conflicts. Eva’s mother had remarried to Bela Zsolt and moved to Budapest with him. She left Eva behind in their hometown of Nagyvarad to live with her grandmother. On Eva’s thirteenth birthday, Agi could not attend. This made Eva angry and felt that Agi, “could have managed to come.” Agi would have done anything for Bela. Eva’s grandmother even said herself, “not even Hitler himself could keep Agi away from Bela.” Eva felt as if her mother loved Bela more than her. Eva was jealous of Agi and always wanted to be like her. This is an external, character vs. character conflict between Agi and Eva.
Not wanting their precious granddaughter to be taken to the ghetto or to be exterminated, Eva’s grandparents tried to convert Eva to Christianity. Society however, claimed that in order for a person to be considered a Christian, they must study the Bible for at least six months. Eva did not have six months to study the Bible and could not be considered a Christian. This is an external, character vs. society conflict.
Eva had a character vs. self, internal conflict when she began questioning if she believed in many things. Eva once thought that Christians were good people. After the incident with not being able to be converted to Christianity, she questioned herself as to whether of not she liked these people anymore. Eva also started losing faith in her God when her best friend, Marta, was killed by the Germans. She asked herself over and over again, where is my God, why is he not protecting us?
Once Eva and her family, including Agi and Bela, were taken to the ghetto, Bela became ill. Agi fought to get Bela out of the ghetto and into a proper medical facility. In doing so, she left Eva behind in the camp with the rest of the family. When Agi found out Eva had been deported to a concentration camp in Poland and had been killed, Agi took the death of her child upon herself. She felt as if she could have fought to keep Eva out of the ghetto too. She found herself battling within her self, questioning whether or not to take her own life. In the end, after Bela had also died, Agi was found dead on her bedroom floor, having taken her own life, with a picture of Eva at her side. This is a character vs. self, internal conflict.
~Four Perfect Pebbles~
The major conflict of Four Perfect Pebbles is characters versus society with the Marion, her family, and the rest of the Jewish population of Eastern Europe against the Nazis. There are also conflict for the characters. Marion's parents had an internal conflict about leaving their home in Germany. they were living with Walter's, the father's elderly parents who they knew wouldn't be able to come with them when they finally escaped Germany. They didn't know how long they should wait to leave Germany; either they would have to stay with their elderly parents and let the Nazis capture them or leave them and take the children to Holland to await their voyage to America. Luckily Walter's parents died within a couple of weeks of each other and Walter and Ruth got to leave the country without leaving them behind for the Nazis.
Marion and Albert had a character versus character conflict. Marion was determined to find four pebbles that were exactly alike to keep her and her family safe until the end of the war. Albert told her often when they meet in the camp that it was a silly game and blew it off. Marion was very mad at Albert but ignored his pessimism because she was sure she would find a set of pebbles and they all would survive the war together.
There were many other conflicts during the story. Most were internal conflicts for Mama and Marion. One was, after the war Ruth got passage to America. When the family arrived in America they lived with a relative in New York but Ruth was offered a house and job across the country. Ruth anted the job and house but she was nervous about going somewhere where she had no connections. To add to that, she still didn't know English very well.
The major conflict in Bride Price is character vs. character, self, and a bit of character vs. society. The main character, Zosha, is struggling with the emotional difficulties of being part of the “second generation,” or the daughter of Holocaust survivors. Her father was in Auschwitz and her mother had survived the concentration camp Czetochowa. When Zosha was growing up, she would ask her mother about life in a concentration camp and how they were treated. Zosha, having listened to her mother's stories and having imagined what it was like, gained the same kind of stress her parents had from actually living in the Holocaust. She ends up attending support groups and conventions for the second generation. She even attends a book event where she met the author of a book about the Holocaust. Zosha, herself is writing a book about being the daughter of Holocaust survivors, which her mother finds. There's a bit of character vs. character conflict because Zosha's mother feels betrayed that her daughter wrote about her.
Other than those conflicts, there's another character vs. character conflict between Zosha and Uly, the author of the book that Zosha attended the event for. She ends up falling for him a bit, and then he tells her that he's married. Also, Zosha and her father haven't talked much since her previous boyfriend, whose parents were Nazis, and she feels like her father is disappointed in her.
The conflict Zosha faces about being part of the second generation is both internal and external. Not only does she have emotional struggles with it, but a convention she attends, she ends up disagreeing with the woman running it and storms out. The other conflicts with her father and Uly are mostly internal because she they don't talk about their problems. Her mother's conflict, about the book Zosha is writing, is an internal struggle because she was sneaking around Zosha's apartment when she found the book, and she keeps it to herself.
Escape or Die
With my book being a compilation of peoples accounts, it would be quite an entry explaining all of them. So in the long run the main conflict is character vs society, this is because that the people aren't running away from just one specific person, but a group in general, the Nazis. It's also the fact that Hitler and his Nazis are out to kill all who they think are unworthy to live.
Most of the stories I read had one main conflict, and then some minor ones that branch off that main one. Like one story, aside from escaping from his village and running from invading Nazi troops, one kid kept escaping from Auchwits whenever he was capture and becoming recaptured by Nazi allied bounty hunters. This would be more likely to be character vs character as the bounty hunters are more likely to be only a few people, or even one, and they're out to capture the kid.
In my book "Echoes from the Holocaust" the conflict is character vs. society. It’s this because Mira was taken to concentration camps because of Hitler and the Nazis, all because she was Jewish. She had to find ways to survive and protect herself but its hard when there's not a lot she could do. Another conflict would be character vs. self. This is because Mira had gotten sick and weak, she had to keep herself believing positive thoughts. She had to keep herself strong so she could get through this horrible time. The fist conflict is external because if it wasn’t for Hitler and the Nazis Mira would not be in this situation. The second conflict is internal because Mira has to keep herself strong both mentally and physically.
The Upstairs Room By:Johanna Reiss
The major problem faced by all of my characters is that they are all worried about when the war is going to be over. Sini and Annie are worried because they want to get home so they can see thier father and sister Rachel. The Oosterveld's are worried about getting caught by the Germans. The conflict is external and its character v. socetiy.
The other conflicts that the characters experience are character v. nature in the story Sini and Annie have two rooms because one room gets to cold during the winter so they have to use that one during the summer and the one that is used during the winter doesn't have a nice view like the one that is used during the summer. This conflict is external. The other conflict is character v. character because Dijente, Johan, and Opope are always fighting and arguing in front of the girls. This conflict is external. Another conflict that is character v. society is that the Oosterveld's are worried about thier neighbors finding out about the girls and telling on them which means that the girls can die from hiding and the Oosterveld's can also die for hiding the girls at thier house. This conflict is also external. Another conflict is Annie talking to her self and asking her self questions about the way other people are feeling or she asks her self questions about what is going on around her with the war and Hitler. This is internal and it is character v. self.
The conflict in my book Stones in Water is character vs. nature. In character vs. nature Roberto is faced to a very cold winter with not very warm clothes and no food. Later on in the book he walks away from the camp that he is at and all he has is the clothes on his back and one cement sack and a flower sack. For many days he was walking through cold harsh winds and snowy nights sleeping in trees and being al alone because Enzo (whom he now refers to by his real name Samuele) died. I think that his problems are internal and external. I think this because he has to figure out if he is strong enough to survive the weather and the wild and what the weather is like.
In my book in Kindling flame the biggest conflict Hanna has is character vs. society. She is under cover for the Britins and she is having a very hard time getting info back to the britins. She has almost been cought 2 times but she has been able to get it out to them. She has seen friends that she has made there die and she has also been beaten a few times.
The Upstairs Room
Johanna Reiss
All right well one of the conflicts would be character vs. character, between Annie, and Sini. They are both sisters and have plenty of fights. I can remember this one fight where Sini was allowed to go to the stables that night and Annie wanted to go, so Annie began reading a book that they both shared called “War and Peace,” and that upset Sini. They ended up not speaking to each other for the rest of the day and into the night. They have many arguments about when they are are going to get out of the house and what they should or should not do. Another conflict is character vs. self, Annie is limping. Her legs has stiffened and she can't walk right anymore. She knows she should practice walking and try to straighten out her leg but she doesn't want to practice walking. This also causes Sini and Annie to fight more and more. Annie also feels self conscious about her leg, one time Dientje took her to see a little girl named Mimi, and she wanted to be able to walk right. She even said “I'd better walk some more around the room. After all, I didn't want the girl to think I walked funny.” These problems were both internal and external and effect both of them. For the character vs. character this was an external conflict, both of the girls were fighting and getting frustrated with each other. Annie vs. herself was a internal conflict, because she walked funny she thought no one would like her.
(This blog is really late.....it completely slipped my mind....Sorry)
The major problem faced by Hannah is a character versus society conflict, which causes a character versus self conflict. The character versus society conflict is Hannah versus the people who are against jewish people. She followed her heart into becoming a Zionist and moved to live in Palestine. She thought that she was doing what she was meant to do, but found that she was feeling guilty because she was safe when other people like her mother and brother are in danger (the character versus self conflict). She then joins a militia that worked toward protecting the people targeted by Hitler. She eventually learns to fly and learns how to work with weapons like machine guns.
The issues that Hannah's mother faces is a character versus society, except she is right in the midst of the trouble, for she lives in Budapest, Hungary. Hannah's brother also has the same conflict as their mother, except he joined the British Army and for the longest time Hannah lost contact with her brother, George, but a day before she was to leave her mission Hannah received an message that George was coming to meet with her, and she was overwhelmed with joy. George was more mature since the last time that they saw each other, but they still recognized each other instantly.
I had the blog done on Wednesday but I could not get on to this site at home because dial up is horrible when it comes to getting to a site that you actually want to get to.
Aedan N.
In early 1941, when Gerhard Kunkel returned from war service in France, he brought home a broken shortwave radio and gave it to Helmuth Hubener. 16 year old Helmuth fixed the radio. After his grandparents went to bed, he rigged an antenna and played with the radio dials, tuning in a German-language newscast on the BBC, meaning British Broadcasting Corporation. It was illegal to listen to un-German broadcasts. Helmuth listened to the British war repots and later compared them with German news, he realized that the reports didn't add up. Nazis, he concluded were lying to the German people. Helmuth began to take notes on the broadcasts. One day in July 1941, Helmuth decided that the German people deserved to know the truth about the Nazis. He helped himself to a typewriter, red paper, carbon-copy paper, and a swastika stamper from the office where he worked. He wrote essays titled “Hitler the Murderer,” “Hitler is the Guilty one.”
Helmuth and his three friends, Rudi Wobbe, and Karl Schnibbe left the flyers in apartment buildings, mailboxes, and other public places. Once they even put one in the coat pocket of a Nazi official. The boys carried on their resistance activities for several months. Several neighbors reported flyers to the police, who began an investigation. On Wednesday, February 4, 1942, a suspicious coworker reported Helmuth to the authorities. The next day the Gestapo arrested Helmuth at work. The Gestapo beat Helmuth for two days, telling him that they new he didn't work alone, and demanded names. For six months, Karl, Rudi, Helmuth were held in solitary confinement. In August 1942, the boys were handcuffed and transported to Berlin for their trial. It would take place place before Nazi Germany's highest court, the feared People's Court, also known as the Blood Court, since it often handed down the death sentence. By talking full responsibility, Helmuth saved the lives of his two friends. Still, Karl received five years of hard labor and Rudi received ten.
The court sentenced Helmuth Hubener to death. Helmuth collapsed when he heard the sentence, but the guards yanked him to his feet. Having composed himself, Helmuth said to the court, “I haven't commited any crime. All I've done is tell the truth.” On October 27, 1942 Helmuth seventeen was beheaded.
There are many conflicts in the story I am reading. The girl, Irene, has had to go through many obsticales throughout the story. First Irene was seperated from her family and had to find a way to reunited with them. Once Irene gets home, her family is soon serperated once again. German officers come and take her father away to work. Irene's mother and two of her sisters follow them, and move to the area where he is taken. They leave Irene and her sister Janina. Irene starts work at a hotel for a man named Schulz. Soon the hotel moves to Ternerpol. Irene and her sister move there to start work. A German leader becomes interested in Janina, and Irene begs to send her back home. Now Irene is all alone again. Irene has been helping the Jews, she has been bringing them food and helping them hide out in places. Irene has had to sneek around, risking her life to help them. Irene ran into many problems while helping her Jew friends. She has had to lie to her boss to get around not getting caught. The point in the book right now Irene has two problems. They are keeping her friends hidden without being found, and getting back together with her family.
The major daily conflict in this book, for the main character, is the character vs. society. Liesel and her family were hiding a Jew in their basement and it was very illegal for them to do this because this was when Jews were being rounded up and sent to concentration camps. If anyone had found out than they all would have been killed. Also her family thinks that what is being done to the Jews is very wrong, and that is also conflicting with the ideas of the German society, who think that they are in the right. At one point Liesel's father even gives bread to a Jew that was being marched through their towns streets, and people saw him. He was whipped in the street and many people hated him after that. Also as a repercussion, he was sent to war, which shows just how bad it was for them to be keeping a Jew in their basement. All he did was the give the Jew some bread, so if they were found out, you have to realize the punishment would have been 100,000 time worse. This was a daily conflict for Liesel because the danger of him being discovered was there everyday.
Serena said,
There are two conflicts in the book "Number the Stars."
Character vs character and character vs society. The character vs society conflict is between Ellen (the Roses and jews) and the Nazis. This conflict is between everyone who is a jew and Annemarie's family because they are protecting their neighbors.
Character vs character is between Annemarie and her family because they lie to her to try and protect her from the Nazis. Annemarie's friend Ellen goes to live with the Johansons as their older daughter Lise who was later killed three years later by the Nazis.
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