The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

Retell: This movie is about a boy, named Bruno who lives in Nazi Germany, during 1943 in a German family. One day, he sees what he thinks is a farm and goes to check it out. When he gets there, he see a boy, named Shmuel and they quickly become good friend. Bruno goes to see Shmuel regularly and provides him with food. Later, Bruno decides to dig a hole and help Shmuel find his father. As they are looking for him, Bruno and Shmuel end up in a crowd of people and are taken to a gas chamber and end up dying.

Relate: This movie reminds me of a television show, called The 100. In the show, Earth had become uninhabitable for humans a century ago due to a devastating nuclear war. From then on, approximately 3000 people moved to a spaceship that orbited Earth, but eventually the food and oxygen supplies started to run out and they sent 100 people back to Earth to see if it was habitable. It was like a suicide mission because they assumed the Earth had too much radiation, but luckily the Earth was livable. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas reminds me of The 100 because people are separated from their families and sent away to their death. Even though the people in The 100 did not die, they were sent on a suicide mission and there was a high probability that the Earth would have too much radiation for humans.

Reflect: I think this movie was very eye opening and shows to what extent humans can go to. Also, it brings into perspective how innocent people were killed for no reason. Furthermore, it shows the harsh conditions of the Holocaust and makes us appreciate our lives. Lastly, it shows us how other Germans were fooled to believe that the Jews were being treated nicely and that they had no idea what was really happened in their own country.

Blog Post #6

     For my final ISU blog post, I wanted to use a picture that I took to demonstrate my social issue. Since my most significant social issue in my book was discrimination, I tried to use marbles to replicate it. In our world today, there is discrimination everywhere. Discrimination has become an everyday thing for mankind, and we might not even notice it. People get discriminated because of ethnicity, culture, physical appearance, sex, size and religious beliefs. So, I decided to put some marbles that were different colours and sizes in the bottom right corner and put a X on them. This is because society divides these people and discriminate them because of all kinds of reasons, such as physical appearance.
     This is shown in my book when people are put in different school classes because of their financial standings and physical appearance. All of the good looking rich kids are put in 8a, the middle class families are put in 8b and the poor, 'ugly' kids are put in 8c. Moreover, nobody talks to the students that are different from them and they hit and bully them. That is very rude and nobody should be treated differently. 

     These acts have taken place many times in human history as well. For example, the Jews were massacred because of their religion in the 1900s by the Nazi. Millions of them were discriminated and killed for no reason at all. We should learn from our mistakes in the past and never make them again.

     Finally, we should all learn to accept one another for who we are and change the way society looks at one another because at the end of the day, we are all humans.