Mood 2/21/17

The book I am reading, "The Boy Who Dared", makes me feel depressed because it has a such a sad and gray tone. It take s place in nazi Germany and the main character sees many Jewish attacks and horrible things that go on during the time. The main character is also in prison and lives everyday expecting to be executed as soon as he wakes up. The story makes me feel grateful I am not in such a scary world. When I think of Germany in the book I picture always gray, cloudy skies and dull colors with dead grass. War planes flying overhead and soldiers in the mix of people and children walking outside.

The boy who dared Summary

In my book "The Boy Who Dared", by Susan Campbell bartoletti, the main character is a guy named helmuth who grew up in a time when hitler rose to power. Throughout the book, there are flashback sections to when he was a kid growing up in that time and sections in the present where helmuth is in prison for a currently unknown reason. Helmuth grow up with two half brothers named Hans and Gerhard, a single mother whom he calls mutti, who grandparents he refers to as oma and opa. His father was never present in his life and his two brothers have a different father than him but both men who have had kids with mutti  are not in the picture. Helmuth grows up with the terrible discrimination that Adolf Hitler brought towards the Jews in Germany.  He has seen nazi brutality on Jews who tried to clean graffiti that was being written on their homes and shops. Helmuth wasn't able to shop at any Jewish stores or markets because Germans were forced to not spend money at Jewish establishments and only at German shops.

Foreshadowing

in my book, "Jerk", I can foreshadow that the main character Sam Carrier eventually formally meet a mystery girl whom he is falling for. He has helping her in numerous instances, like when he gave her his coat when it was freezing outside and when he told her she was going the wrong way and bound to get lost. He desperately wants to meet her and always somehow runs into her.  Sam shows affection towards the girl. He overheard a conversation with her and her friend talking about him and how he wants to know more about him. He will eventually meet her because that's the cliche in this type of scenario in media.