The movie can be connected to Night, because at the end both Elie and Joshua's father died. And they both talk about the Holocaust. Both the book and film show or talk about they labors inmates are supposed to accomplish, and the crematorium as well. At the end both are liberated as well. Many lives were lost in both book and movie. Through the gas chambers and crematorium, which were in both stories. But the movie had more of a humorous side to it. Even in the concentration camp there were a lot of funny moments. In Night, there is rarely anything funny to be read. Both also have a very powerful impact for the viewer. Night is much more serious, and focuses in more detail of events that happened in the camp. "Life is Beautiful" being a movie could not do that, because it didn't even focus on the Holocaust until half of the movie.
"Life is Beautiful" can also be connected to real life stories. It had a lot of true information, and it is similar to Ellie's story. And another person who I read about in an article, who literally baked to save his life. Guido was a waiter for some of the Nazis, which was like how the baker was baking for the Nazis. But being a waiter didn't save Guido, but it did save the baker. In Night, Elie cared for his father, while in the movie, Guido cared for his son. So that is kind of similar. And in both book and film, family got separated, it was at the very end of the movie where Guido gets separated from his son, and gets killed. In Night, Elie and his father get separated from Elie's mother and sister. But the book is real and the movie is not, so that may be the biggest difference.
"Life is Beautiful" is a really humorous movie in the beginning and even in the camp, when it takes a more serious tone. Guido is a funny guy and falls in love with Dora, and they always met in a weird way. And Guido is hardly ever serious while talking to her, he always calls her princess, and say other funny things. He does this thing that his friend told him about. If you concentrate enough for something you want to happen, it will happen. And Guido does this several times in the movie, wiggling his fingers for extra affect, and it works every time. When him and Joshua are going to the concentration camp, Guido goes to a great extent to make him think it's a game so Joshua won't get scared. Like translating the Nazi officer's instructions to game rules that are really funny. And telling his son that if you win the game you get a real tank, which actually sort of happens. So there is a very good amount of humor in the movie, which gives it a unique feel. If you hear about other Holocaust stories they are very serious, and so is this, but in a funny way.
There are many points where life is shown as beautiful in the movie. Like when Dora and Guido are in love like in some Disney movie, and Dora is going to get married to another man but literally is taken away by Guido and gets married to him instead. And how Guido goes around working as a waiter and doing a bunch of other things having a good time because he is always joking around. And also how Guido sacrifices himself so his son and wife could live, he treasured their life over his, and risked his life to save them. It looks like Guido is making everyone else's life beautiful, most of whom he meets are delighted to talk to him. No wonder why the movie is called "Life is Beautiful".
Friday, March 31, 2017
Quarter 3 Reflections
I think I have made the biggest improvement in doing my work. I used to come to working lunch a lot because I may have missed some things that I had to do. But now that happens much less, and I do my work better. Maybe I could still improve on that, but I think it's fine. Also I have read 16 books, I dont know if comic books count because I read 25 of those. But by the time I am done with A Series of Unfortunate Events, I will have read 25 total books of of 40. But If comic books counts then right now I have read 37, I hope they do.
The most challenging thing in this quarter might have been writing tasks. I didn't do to good with those so hopefully in the 4th quarter I'll be able to improve on that. I am proud of my butterfly, although mine wasn't the best out of all of them. I think I did pretty good with it because I also got a 3 on the project. It wasn't really hard to make, but I invested a lot of time into it. This Holocaust was really interesting as I got to learn much about the world back then. And we saw a movie, went to a museum, and read a book, and that all had a very porwerful impact on me.
The most challenging thing in this quarter might have been writing tasks. I didn't do to good with those so hopefully in the 4th quarter I'll be able to improve on that. I am proud of my butterfly, although mine wasn't the best out of all of them. I think I did pretty good with it because I also got a 3 on the project. It wasn't really hard to make, but I invested a lot of time into it. This Holocaust was really interesting as I got to learn much about the world back then. And we saw a movie, went to a museum, and read a book, and that all had a very porwerful impact on me.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Argumentative Article AoW
I don't think that this is the most pressing argument, but it does affect me personally. Eamonn's article was about if parents should agree with the new school lunch standards. Michele Obama, the former First Lady made a change to school lunches so that they are more healthy. This is a good thing because now parents don't have to worry about their kids getting unhealthy food. But this is kind of bad because every person needs a specific amount of food, because we are all different. So if you give all kids the same food, and the same amount of food then some will not get enough nutrition. And personally I think that our school should give us better food, and sometimes the quantity should be greater. Also, and I think a lot of other kids agree, there should be chocolate milk.
Another article that I thought was very interesting was Dylan's article. His was about how livestock are producing too much greenhouse gas. 51% to be exact. So we either should keep eating them, or breed them less and eat fruits and vegetables. 51% is a big number, and greenhouse gas is bad for the Earth, because it traps in sunlight, therefore causing the climate to become hotter. So if we want to be green, breed less livestock. But the funny thing is, if we do that and eat fruits and vegetables, we would produce even more greenhouse gasses. I didn't really understand how fruit and vegetables make us produce more gas, but it's proven. So that is pretty ironic. I personally like eating meat more than vegetables, so I would be pretty sad if I had to give that up.
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Night Blog
It is easy to tell that Elie has been very changed by the events in the camp. His bond grows closer to his father, he doubts his God, being a very pious person, and his morals kind of change. On page 37 Elie himself says, "The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person". It just took one night for Elie to change, and when his father asks to go to the bathroom, and the gypsy slaps his father, Elie didn't do anything. "... He slapped my father with such force that he fell down... I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck... and had not even blinked. Had I changed that much?" (39) Elie said would've protected his father just the day before. But he didn't want to get beaten himself. He began to care more for himself, and didn't want to get in harms way. But he did take very good care of his father, the last piece of hope he had.
He grew less religious, and didn't really pray that much or talk to his God, but he did it occasionally. And he questioned God, he wondered why he was letting this happen, why he didn't save them. "Why, but why would I bless him?...Because He caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves?...Because in His great might, He had created Auchwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?" (67). Elie was rebelling against his God, losing faith in Him. And for someone who has been very religious, and wanting to learn so much about Him, it was like throwing that all away in the trash. But he still kept some of his religion, and it stayed with him for the rest of his life.
After emerging from the camp when the war was over, Elie had been transformed into a whole new person. He started to worry about when he would eat next more than ever, and his relationship with his father increased dramatically. To the point that without each other, there was nothing to live for anymore. He also doubted his faith, being a very pious boy growing up, and seeing that his God did not save them from the inhumanity the inmates experienced in the concentration camps. And after his father died, all he thought about was food, because his father was his hope, someone to get through the hard times with. He lost all of his family, but luckily survived to tell the story that we know today.
Citation: Wiesel, Elie. Night. N.p.: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.
He grew less religious, and didn't really pray that much or talk to his God, but he did it occasionally. And he questioned God, he wondered why he was letting this happen, why he didn't save them. "Why, but why would I bless him?...Because He caused thousands of children to burn in his mass graves?...Because in His great might, He had created Auchwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and so many other factories of death?" (67). Elie was rebelling against his God, losing faith in Him. And for someone who has been very religious, and wanting to learn so much about Him, it was like throwing that all away in the trash. But he still kept some of his religion, and it stayed with him for the rest of his life.
After emerging from the camp when the war was over, Elie had been transformed into a whole new person. He started to worry about when he would eat next more than ever, and his relationship with his father increased dramatically. To the point that without each other, there was nothing to live for anymore. He also doubted his faith, being a very pious boy growing up, and seeing that his God did not save them from the inhumanity the inmates experienced in the concentration camps. And after his father died, all he thought about was food, because his father was his hope, someone to get through the hard times with. He lost all of his family, but luckily survived to tell the story that we know today.
Citation: Wiesel, Elie. Night. N.p.: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Butterfly Thinglink
Side 1
Side 2
"An Evening In Terezin"
The sun goes down
and everything is silent,
only at the guard's post
are heavy footfalls heard
That's the guard who watches his Jews
to make sure they don't run away from the ghetto.
Or that an Aryan aunt or uncle
doesn't try to get in.
Ten o'clock strikes suddenly,
and the windows of Dresden's barracks darken.
The women have a lot to talk about;
they remember their homes,
and dinners they made.
Then some of them argue.
Others try to quiet them down.
Finally, one by one, they grow silent;
they toss and turn, and in the end,
they fall asleep.
How many more evenings
will we have to live like this?
We do it know,
only God knows.
I commented on: Lorin, Vince, Tammi, Alexis, Eamonn
Side 2
"An Evening In Terezin"
The sun goes down
and everything is silent,
only at the guard's post
are heavy footfalls heard
That's the guard who watches his Jews
to make sure they don't run away from the ghetto.
Or that an Aryan aunt or uncle
doesn't try to get in.
Ten o'clock strikes suddenly,
and the windows of Dresden's barracks darken.
The women have a lot to talk about;
they remember their homes,
and dinners they made.
Then some of them argue.
Others try to quiet them down.
Finally, one by one, they grow silent;
they toss and turn, and in the end,
they fall asleep.
How many more evenings
will we have to live like this?
We do it know,
only God knows.
I commented on: Lorin, Vince, Tammi, Alexis, Eamonn
Holocaust AoW Impressions
I learned a lot from my article, how baking saved Ernie Feld's life, and how a Nazi officer was charged with murder 70 years after the war. I have learned a lot from Night, and the other articles that I have read, and it give me an in depth look on the Holocaust. And it gave me much information on how life was, being separated from your family, and being in concentration camps as well.
I think that the Nazi officer that was charged with murder 70 years after the war is a stretch. First of all, he might've not have murdered anyone at all. And he also said that he was forced to, so I think that was unnecessary. But he could have been lying, but we may never know. Also my article was interesting because a man named Ernie Feld literally baked for his life.
Ernie Feld's life was saved because he could cook and bake. The Nazi officers need someone who could cook, and they found out that Ernie could. So he began to cook for him, and I think that they said he cooked well. He managed to save a few other Jews by letting them help him in the kitchen. but a lot of his family perished in other concentration camps. So he got very lucky, or else he might have not been alive today.
These articles tell a lot, like how families are separated. How Jews lived in Concentration camps. From these articles I have learned much more about the suffering many people experienced in World War II. And it makes me feel so sad that one person could make so many people suffer and die. And now after I have read these articles, I hope that this doesn't happen again.
I think that the Nazi officer that was charged with murder 70 years after the war is a stretch. First of all, he might've not have murdered anyone at all. And he also said that he was forced to, so I think that was unnecessary. But he could have been lying, but we may never know. Also my article was interesting because a man named Ernie Feld literally baked for his life.
Ernie Feld's life was saved because he could cook and bake. The Nazi officers need someone who could cook, and they found out that Ernie could. So he began to cook for him, and I think that they said he cooked well. He managed to save a few other Jews by letting them help him in the kitchen. but a lot of his family perished in other concentration camps. So he got very lucky, or else he might have not been alive today.
These articles tell a lot, like how families are separated. How Jews lived in Concentration camps. From these articles I have learned much more about the suffering many people experienced in World War II. And it makes me feel so sad that one person could make so many people suffer and die. And now after I have read these articles, I hope that this doesn't happen again.
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