Final Blog Post

The novel was sad, amazing, and very eye opening. When Elli said she did not want to go to America with her family I was shocked that she didn’t want to start over after what had happened to Elli and her family. I was amazed when Elli said that she did not want to go to America. When she told her mother and brother that she wanted to stay in her home town. I was somewhat shocked as well, I was shocked because she wanted to stay in her home town, and live as she did before. I was also amazed and shocked when Elli decided to go to America, and she had an entirely new outlook on life and I applaud her deeply for that. If I had to choose one theme to represent this whole book it would be choiceless choices. Choiceless choices represent this whole book in many ways whether being a choice for someone or sometimes they became bystanders because of choiceless choices. Because if they didn’t just remain a bystander they could die and if they just remained a bystander the victim would be harmed more. By reading this book I have learned through the eyes and memories of a survivor of what the Holocaust had been like from the conditions to family to death. I have learned that the memories never leave them and that they had an extremely  difficult time and words and actions never leave them. This is an important project for teenagers to be apart of because they will truly understand the life in the Holocaust more than they did by just learning about it. By reading a book from a survivor about their experience in the Holocaust teenagers will feel like they are there with that survivor and feel what is happening and will better understand what happened during this time period. As for the blogging part of this project teenagers will be able to put their own thoughts out there about the Holocaust and have others react and talk to them. This in general was a very great and fun project that I loved  being apart of. Finally thank you so much to every contributor and commentator during this project. You were all very helpful and are very kind to take some time out to read and reply to us. I really appreciate you all for doing that. Thank you once more.