Copy down a short passage (up to a paragraph approximately) that you found to be particularly interesting or illuminating. Explain what made it interesting for you or why it stands out.
The men of the 9th were about to cross paths with these angry warriors and the men who led them. One of their first encounters was a small one, but it made history: because of his actions in the fight, Emmanuel Stance became the first Buffalo Soldier to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. This passage caught my interest because it talks about how these soldiers were always in battle and how one of the men won the Congressional Medal of Honor which is a really big deal. I thought this was odd because even though black soldiers fought through the Civil War none of them won it.
“The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die.”
this is a huge part of the book and war in general. especially the last sentence 'There are times when men have to die.” this sentence alone is illuminating because it has been said multiple times in american war history. Many people have quoted this because it is an easy scapegoat to cope with the amount of casualties that come with war whether it be american lives or someone else life. it all effects both sides some way or another
“Sister, why do you do that?" "Do what?" "Cage the animals at night?" "Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them." "But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?" "Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together.”
This quote from They Cage the Animals at Night stands out to me because it gives reason for the title of the book. The idea of caging the stuffed animals connects to the idea of locking the children up in orphanages. The concept is really sad, but is a harsh reality.
"The bell for the clock was purchased for $304, and the clock itself cost $2000 for parts and installation. George Woods the owner, of the building built the tower in which the clock resided and the whole assembly was completed by November 1864. the face of the clock was duplicated of the town clock in the city of New Orleans, and it was designed to minimized the effects of weather." This passage was illuminating to me, because the clock is actually still in Dubuque. It also was illuminating to me because of how much the bell cost only $304, which would be about $8000 in today market.
"By all rights the Alamo should not have been there at all. Within the last year three men had been given the responsibility of blowing it up. None had complied." This excerpt from the Alamo explains how the mission should have never even been standing during the attack. This is very interesting because this battle is a very important part of our history. Two of the three men that had been ordered to blow up the Alamo were the leaders of the mission at the time of the attack. They both are very selfish and did not perform their job because of personal reasons.
In my book "Teen Dads" i read a passage that states: it usually takes less than an hour of pushing to bring your baby out. Three good pushes with each contraction are suggested. Many mothers say this is the most exciting part. right before delivery, the doctor may do an episiotomy. this paragraph is interesting because i had no idea that doctors did episiotomys which are a small cut to make the vaginal region bigger. I felt really uncomfortable reading this and I cannot imagine the pain the mother goes through while giving birth. Giving birth sounds like it is extremely painful.
During his time in Richmond, Lincoln did not order arrests of any rebel leaders who stayed in the city, did not order their property seized, and said nothing of vengeance or punishment. Nor did he order a manhunt for Davis and the officials who had left the city less than two hours ago. It was a moment of remarkable greatness and generosity. It was Abraham Lincoln at his best.
This stands out to me because it shows how classy Lincoln was and that's why so many people liked him. I think this a good move that he didn't make any irrational decisions he just took in the glory of the victory.
"The pain is constant and so excruciating that the Kennedy often uses crutches or a cane to get around though rarely in the public. He wears a corset, sleeps on an extra firm mattress, and receives regular injections of the anesthetic procaine to ease his suffering" this is interesting to me because president Kennedy was in so much pain constantly that he often needed help getting around but he would never allow the general public to know that his back was a weakness.
"If that bell was a little closer i might have stood up and gone and rung it, gotten my warm coffee and doughnut. but I didn't. either i was to stubborn to quit, or just too lazy to get up.Take your pick." i found it interesting because he wanted to be a seal so bad but during hell week he wanted to quit because it was so hard and cold.
"Ed didn't grow up in Parkersburg, but you couldn't tell it from from talking to him. He spoke of the small town of 1,900 in northeast Iowa as second only to the Garden of Eden itself. I think that this passage stood out to me because I've driven through Parkersburg before and it is nothing special. Therefore, I think the message being portrayed is that Ed Thomas could see the best in every little thing. I also like this passage because like Ed, I love the small town I live in.
"I wound up babysitting for almost all of the ones who are younger than I am, sometimes because she had to sleep during the day when she came home from work. I was around and I worked for free, which was about all that qualified me. I babysat when my brothers or sisters needed to go to work or run errands, and I resented it. I was supposed to be out playing, and instead I was stuck watching all these kids. My patience quickly wore thin and I decided I didn't want to be a teacher after all, or a babysitter. Maybe I never wanted to see another kid again for as long as I lived. The only thing that got me through was knowing that, in a few hours, I could hand them back to their mothers or fathers." I think this paragraph is important because it shows that because of what Gaby dealt with growing up, she was more resistant to actually having a kid of her own at a young age. She saw all her siblings make the mistake of getting pregnant and how it ruined there lives and hers because they would always want to go out partying. Growing up this way helped Gaby realize she wanted something else for herself than a teen pregnancy but that did not stop other people from thinking that she was going to get pregnant at a young age, which also gave her reason for her experiment.
The selection in the book that I found interesting was "Clyde seriously considered marriage and gave several gifts, including rings, a watch, and luggage. As was the custom among poor-class men, Clyde had the girl's initials, E.B.W., along with a dagger through a heart, tattooed on his left arm. The girl, however, had never considered Clyde anything except a friend, and the young couple drifted apart. She returned all the gifts except the watch, which Clyde refused to accept. In what can only be tremendous irony, the watch was stolen from her Dallas home by a burglar in 1975." This passage is interesting in a couple different ways one because it shows that he falls head over heels for almost every girl and that he is a burglar. He stole the watch back that he gave to her and the irony to it is pretty funny.
"Some are made of boards, some of sailcloth, and some partly of one and partly of the other. Others are made of stone and turf, and others again of bricks and other brush. Some are thrown up in a hurry and look as if they could not help it-mere necessity-others are curiously wrought with doors and windows." This paragraph talks about the men of the American Army during the revolutionary war and is talking about the different kinds of tents the men had. This is interesting because it shows that we did not have the best things when we fought and that so many men ended up sick throughout the time staying in the terrible tents.
The passage that I found interesting was “Simply realizing that no one else is going to make your dreams come true is a big step. Your boss, friends, partner, family, and children cannot live your life for you. You are responsible for creating a life that makes you happy and fulfilled. No one else can do that for you." I found this passage interesting because it was a good tip for me. I need to learn that no one can live my life for me. I need to realize that it’s my life and I should do what makes me happy and not everyone else.
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” This quote is interesting because it shows the bad memories that already have happened in the cruel camp. It shows that these tragedies would be something Ellie would never forget.
"Did it hurt?" "Of course! It hurt so badly I couldn't sleep. I screamed in pain and begged my mother to free my feet, but she wouldn't. In fact, the pain has never gone away. My feet have hurt every day since the were bound and continue to hurt today. I had a pair of perfectly good feet when I was born, but they maimed me on purpose and gave me lifelong arthritis so I would be attractive. Just be thankful the this horrible custom was done away with thirty years ago."
This stood out to me because of the unique traditions that were performed to women in China. I doesn't make sense why women would do this to there feet to become "attractive". This limited them from doing so many things like sports, going out, or just walking to and from school every day. It is a strange tradition that thankfully ended.
I have smelled death on a number of ride longs with the police department and they are right. The smell was different, however, a fact which would become important when police who had been in the apartment in the months before the discovery were asked why their trained noses had failed to detect a deathly odor. I chose this passage because I find it interesting that he has ben checked on before and got away.
"The Green Berets' motto is 'De Oppresso Liber'-'To Liberate the Oppressed'; those words made Roy reflect obsessively on the atrocities he'd seen in Vietnam. staring at his daughter as she slept, watching her tiny chest rise and fall, often brought him to tears. He would think about the three children who were crucified by the VC. He would think about the wailing women and man who had mourned their loss. They haunted him and fueled his desperation to get back into the fight."
This paragraph stands out because it tells you why Roy Benavidez wanted to become a Green Beret and head back into Vietnam. It's interesting to me because it shows that Roy is a very selfless man. He saw things in Vietnam during his first tour, in which he got severely injured, that haunt him, and yet he wants to go back and try to help and make things right.
"In one neighborhood near where Enrique's mother grew up, fifty-two children arrive at kindergarten each morning. Forty-four arrive barefoot. An aide reaches into a basket and places a pair of shies in their hands." I chose this passage because it shows how hard life is in other countries. It stands out how these children can sometimes live happier than other people without having money and food.
My sister and I switched beds several months later. I slept on the top bunk. One night I woke up because my nose was running. The tissue box was on the right side of my bed against the wall. I reached over to get a tissue. Suddenly, a large hairy hand came up behind the tissue box and grabbed my wrist. I felt a surging scream coming up my throat, but only a small squeak came out. A cold chill ran down my whole little body. I found that this part in the book is interesting because spirits could do, like kill a living thing like a human and they could get away with it but most spirits don't, why? I don't know because that would be a thing some people would want to do, murder/harm another person.
"Forty, fifty, even sixty below zero-actual temperature, not wind-chill-seems to change everything. Steel becomes brittle and breaks, shatters; breath taken straight into the throat will freeze the lining and burst blood vessels; eyes exposed too long will freeze; fingers and toes freeze, turn black, break off. These are all known, normal parts of intense cold. But it changes beauty as well. Things are steeped in a new clarity, a clear focus. Sound seems to ring and the very air seems to be filled with diamonds when ice crystals form. This paragraph stands out to me because he explains how bitterly cold it is and what the effects are. Here in Iowa we don't usually even get below Twenty to thirty below zero with the wind chill. Where he is located, the actual temperature is sixty below zero and then the wind chill on top of it, its really cold. I like the way that he describes it when it gets that cold he sais the ice on everything makes it look like their is diamonds on everything. another thing that stood out to me was how he described the crisp cold air changes all the noises and that when its that cold you throat will freeze and start bleeding.
"They knew, and when given the opportunity, they would talk of slavery in vivid, fresh, and alive language. They had no formal education, but they had the education of day to day living, of observing people and nature for their lives depended on such knowledge. not all slaves had the same experiences. A few were so enslaved that once slavery ended, they were sorry". It means that they had no work after slavery and wanted to work but could not find any jobs.
The passage I found most interesting so far would be when Elie Wiesel said "the Einsatzgruppen carried out the final solution by turning their machine guns on more than a million Jews, men, woman and children, and throwing them into huge mass graves, just moments before by the victims themselves. Thus for the first time in history Jews were not only killed twice, but denied burial in a cemetery. this has meaning to me because I would not want to be the digging my own grave. it's hard to think about knowing that the holes you are digging in some random place not even a cemetery would make me feel like I had no meaning as a person like they wouldn't want the people buried in a cemetery because then people would know they died. if they are buried in some hidden place in a hole they dug then no one would know. as they're murdering people they are getting away with it because no one knows.
the passage i found interesting is, "Today, I feel like Judas, only with inflation," said Singer, now eighty but still farmingo n what was left on his family's land. "Judas sold out Christ for thirty pieces of silver. I sold out Scott County for one million dollars." This passage is interesting to me because Billy Singer the only man who could have stopped the Toyota plant from being built is now regretting even to this day selling his land to the government. its strange to think that one mans decision can help out an entire state by selling some land, after he sold his land and the factory was built the county doubled in size to about 45,000
"In the year 1915 a drunkard I hope will be as infamous in society as a liar or a thief, and the use of spirits as uncommon in families as a drink made of a solution of arsenic." This is a direct quote from a passage that caught my attention. Reading this quote shows how much alcohol was despised at the time, and how horrible people thought it was. Many fought against alcohol, trying to make the drinkers the center of attention, but not in a good way.
"In the year 1915 a drunkard I hope will be as infamous in society as a liar or a thief, and the use of spirits as uncommon in families as a drink made of a solution of arsenic." This is a direct quote from a passage that caught my attention. Reading this quote shows how much alcohol was despised at the time, and how horrible people thought it was. Many fought against alcohol, trying to make the drinkers the center of attention, but not in a good way.
The men of the 9th were about to cross paths with these angry warriors and the men who led them. One of their first encounters was a small one, but it made history: because of his actions in the fight, Emmanuel Stance became the first Buffalo Soldier to win the Congressional Medal of Honor. This passage caught my interest because it talks about how these soldiers were always in battle and how one of the men won the Congressional Medal of Honor which is a really big deal. I thought this was odd because even though black soldiers fought through the Civil War none of them won it.
ReplyDelete“The War Department in Washington briefly weighed more ambitious schemes to relieve the Americans on a large scale before it was too late. But by Christmas of 1941, Washington had already come to regard Bataan as a lost cause. President Roosevelt had decided to concentrate American resources primarily in the European theater rather than attempt to fight an all-out war on two distant fronts. At odds with the emerging master strategy for winning the war, the remote outpost of Bataan lay doomed. By late December, President Roosevelt and War Secretary Henry Stimson had confided to Winston Churchill that they had regrettably written off the Philippines. In a particularly chilly phrase that was later to become famous, Stimson had remarked, 'There are times when men have to die.”
ReplyDeletethis is a huge part of the book and war in general. especially the last sentence 'There are times when men have to die.” this sentence alone is illuminating because it has been said multiple times in american war history. Many people have quoted this because it is an easy scapegoat to cope with the amount of casualties that come with war whether it be american lives or someone else life. it all effects both sides some way or another
“Sister, why do you do that?"
ReplyDelete"Do what?"
"Cage the animals at night?"
"Well..." She looked up and out through the barred window before answering me."We don't want to, Jennings, but we have to. You see, the animals that are given to us we have to take care of. If we didn't cage them up in one place, we might lose them, they might get hurt or damaged. It's not the best thing, but it's the only way we have to take care of them."
"But if somebody loved one them," I asked, "wouldn't it be a good idea to let them have one? To keep, I mean?" "Yes, it would be. But not everyone would love them and take care of them as you would. I wish I could give them all away tomorrow." She looked at me. There were tears in her eyes. "But I can't. My heart would break if I saw just one of those animals lying by the wayside uncared for, unloved. No, Jennings. It's better if we keep them together.”
This quote from They Cage the Animals at Night stands out to me because it gives reason for the title of the book. The idea of caging the stuffed animals connects to the idea of locking the children up in orphanages. The concept is really sad, but is a harsh reality.
"The bell for the clock was purchased for $304, and the clock itself cost $2000 for parts and installation. George Woods the owner, of the building built the tower in which the clock resided and the whole assembly was completed by November 1864. the face of the clock was duplicated of the town clock in the city of New Orleans, and it was designed to minimized the effects of weather."
ReplyDeleteThis passage was illuminating to me, because the clock is actually still in Dubuque. It also was illuminating to me because of how much the bell cost only $304, which would be about $8000 in today market.
"By all rights the Alamo should not have been there at all. Within the last year three men had been given the responsibility of blowing it up. None had complied." This excerpt from the Alamo explains how the mission should have never even been standing during the attack. This is very interesting because this battle is a very important part of our history. Two of the three men that had been ordered to blow up the Alamo were the leaders of the mission at the time of the attack. They both are very selfish and did not perform their job because of personal reasons.
ReplyDeleteIn my book "Teen Dads" i read a passage that states: it usually takes less than an hour of pushing to bring your baby out. Three good pushes with each contraction are suggested. Many mothers say this is the most exciting part. right before delivery, the doctor may do an episiotomy.
ReplyDeletethis paragraph is interesting because i had no idea that doctors did episiotomys which are a small cut to make the vaginal region bigger. I felt really uncomfortable reading this and I cannot imagine the pain the mother goes through while giving birth. Giving birth sounds like it is extremely painful.
During his time in Richmond, Lincoln did not order arrests of any rebel leaders who stayed in the city, did not order their property seized, and said nothing of vengeance or punishment. Nor did he order a manhunt for Davis and the officials who had left the city less than two hours ago. It was a moment of remarkable greatness and generosity. It was Abraham Lincoln at his best.
ReplyDeleteThis stands out to me because it shows how classy Lincoln was and that's why so many people liked him. I think this a good move that he didn't make any irrational decisions he just took in the glory of the victory.
"The pain is constant and so excruciating that the Kennedy often uses crutches or a cane to get around though rarely in the public. He wears a corset, sleeps on an extra firm mattress, and receives regular injections of the anesthetic procaine to ease his suffering" this is interesting to me because president Kennedy was in so much pain constantly that he often needed help getting around but he would never allow the general public to know that his back was a weakness.
ReplyDelete"If that bell was a little closer i might have stood up and gone and rung it, gotten my warm coffee and doughnut. but I didn't. either i was to stubborn to quit, or just too lazy to get up.Take your pick." i found it interesting because he wanted to be a seal so bad but during hell week he wanted to quit because it was so hard and cold.
ReplyDelete"Ed didn't grow up in Parkersburg, but you couldn't tell it from from talking to him. He spoke of the small town of 1,900 in northeast Iowa as second only to the Garden of Eden itself. I think that this passage stood out to me because I've driven through Parkersburg before and it is nothing special. Therefore, I think the message being portrayed is that Ed Thomas could see the best in every little thing. I also like this passage because like Ed, I love the small town I live in.
ReplyDelete"I wound up babysitting for almost all of the ones who are younger than I am, sometimes because she had to sleep during the day when she came home from work. I was around and I worked for free, which was about all that qualified me. I babysat when my brothers or sisters needed to go to work or run errands, and I resented it. I was supposed to be out playing, and instead I was stuck watching all these kids. My patience quickly wore thin and I decided I didn't want to be a teacher after all, or a babysitter. Maybe I never wanted to see another kid again for as long as I lived. The only thing that got me through was knowing that, in a few hours, I could hand them back to their mothers or fathers." I think this paragraph is important because it shows that because of what Gaby dealt with growing up, she was more resistant to actually having a kid of her own at a young age. She saw all her siblings make the mistake of getting pregnant and how it ruined there lives and hers because they would always want to go out partying. Growing up this way helped Gaby realize she wanted something else for herself than a teen pregnancy but that did not stop other people from thinking that she was going to get pregnant at a young age, which also gave her reason for her experiment.
ReplyDeleteThe selection in the book that I found interesting was "Clyde seriously considered marriage and gave several gifts, including rings, a watch, and luggage. As was the custom among poor-class men, Clyde had the girl's initials, E.B.W., along with a dagger through a heart, tattooed on his left arm. The girl, however, had never considered Clyde anything except a friend, and the young couple drifted apart. She returned all the gifts except the watch, which Clyde refused to accept. In what can only be tremendous irony, the watch was stolen from her Dallas home by a burglar in 1975." This passage is interesting in a couple different ways one because it shows that he falls head over heels for almost every girl and that he is a burglar. He stole the watch back that he gave to her and the irony to it is pretty funny.
ReplyDelete"Some are made of boards, some of sailcloth, and some partly of one and partly of the other. Others are made of stone and turf, and others again of bricks and other brush. Some are thrown up in a hurry and look as if they could not help it-mere necessity-others are curiously wrought with doors and windows." This paragraph talks about the men of the American Army during the revolutionary war and is talking about the different kinds of tents the men had. This is interesting because it shows that we did not have the best things when we fought and that so many men ended up sick throughout the time staying in the terrible tents.
ReplyDeleteThe passage that I found interesting was “Simply realizing that no one else is going to make your dreams come true is a big step. Your boss, friends, partner, family, and children cannot live your life for you. You are responsible for creating a life that makes you happy and fulfilled. No one else can do that for you." I found this passage interesting because it was a good tip for me. I need to learn that no one can live my life for me. I need to realize that it’s my life and I should do what makes me happy and not everyone else.
ReplyDelete“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.” This quote is interesting because it shows the bad memories that already have happened in the cruel camp. It shows that these tragedies would be something Ellie would never forget.
ReplyDelete"Did it hurt?"
ReplyDelete"Of course! It hurt so badly I couldn't sleep. I screamed in pain and begged my mother to free my feet, but she wouldn't. In fact, the pain has never gone away. My feet have hurt every day since the were bound and continue to hurt today. I had a pair of perfectly good feet when I was born, but they maimed me on purpose and gave me lifelong arthritis so I would be attractive. Just be thankful the this horrible custom was done away with thirty years ago."
This stood out to me because of the unique traditions that were performed to women in China. I doesn't make sense why women would do this to there feet to become "attractive". This limited them from doing so many things like sports, going out, or just walking to and from school every day. It is a strange tradition that thankfully ended.
I have smelled death on a number of ride longs with the police department and they are right. The smell was different, however, a fact which would become important when police who had been in the apartment in the months before the discovery were asked why their trained noses had failed to detect a deathly odor. I chose this passage because I find it interesting that he has ben checked on before and got away.
ReplyDelete"The Green Berets' motto is 'De Oppresso Liber'-'To Liberate the Oppressed'; those words made Roy reflect obsessively on the atrocities he'd seen in Vietnam. staring at his daughter as she slept, watching her tiny chest rise and fall, often brought him to tears. He would think about the three children who were crucified by the VC. He would think about the wailing women and man who had mourned their loss. They haunted him and fueled his desperation to get back into the fight."
ReplyDeleteThis paragraph stands out because it tells you why Roy Benavidez wanted to become a Green Beret and head back into Vietnam. It's interesting to me because it shows that Roy is a very selfless man. He saw things in Vietnam during his first tour, in which he got severely injured, that haunt him, and yet he wants to go back and try to help and make things right.
"In one neighborhood near where Enrique's mother grew up, fifty-two children arrive at kindergarten each morning. Forty-four arrive barefoot. An aide reaches into a basket and places a pair of shies in their hands."
ReplyDeleteI chose this passage because it shows how hard life is in other countries. It stands out how these children can sometimes live happier than other people without having money and food.
My sister and I switched beds several months later. I slept on the top bunk. One night I woke up because my nose was running. The tissue box was on the right side of my bed against the wall. I reached over to get a tissue. Suddenly, a large hairy hand came up behind the tissue box and grabbed my wrist. I felt a surging scream coming up my throat, but only a small squeak came out. A cold chill ran down my whole little body.
ReplyDeleteI found that this part in the book is interesting because spirits could do, like kill a living thing like a human and they could get away with it but most spirits don't, why? I don't know because that would be a thing some people would want to do, murder/harm another person.
"Forty, fifty, even sixty below zero-actual temperature, not wind-chill-seems to change everything. Steel becomes brittle and breaks, shatters; breath taken straight into the throat will freeze the lining and burst blood vessels; eyes exposed too long will freeze; fingers and toes freeze, turn black, break off. These are all known, normal parts of intense cold. But it changes beauty as well. Things are steeped in a new clarity, a clear focus. Sound seems to ring and the very air seems to be filled with diamonds when ice crystals form.
ReplyDeleteThis paragraph stands out to me because he explains how bitterly cold it is and what the effects are. Here in Iowa we don't usually even get below Twenty to thirty below zero with the wind chill. Where he is located, the actual temperature is sixty below zero and then the wind chill on top of it, its really cold. I like the way that he describes it when it gets that cold he sais the ice on everything makes it look like their is diamonds on everything. another thing that stood out to me was how he described the crisp cold air changes all the noises and that when its that cold you throat will freeze and start bleeding.
"They knew, and when given the opportunity, they would talk of slavery in vivid, fresh, and alive language. They had no formal education, but they had the education of day to day living, of observing people and nature for their lives depended on such knowledge. not all slaves had the same experiences. A few were so enslaved that once slavery ended, they were sorry".
ReplyDeleteIt means that they had no work after slavery and wanted to work but could not find any jobs.
The passage I found most interesting so far would be when Elie Wiesel said "the Einsatzgruppen carried out the final solution by turning their machine guns on more than a million Jews, men, woman and children, and throwing them into huge mass graves, just moments before by the victims themselves. Thus for the first time in history Jews were not only killed twice, but denied burial in a cemetery. this has meaning to me because I would not want to be the digging my own grave. it's hard to think about knowing that the holes you are digging in some random place not even a cemetery would make me feel like I had no meaning as a person like they wouldn't want the people buried in a cemetery because then people would know they died. if they are buried in some hidden place in a hole they dug then no one would know. as they're murdering people they are getting away with it because no one knows.
ReplyDeletethe passage i found interesting is, "Today, I feel like Judas, only with inflation," said Singer, now eighty but still farmingo n what was left on his family's land. "Judas sold out Christ for thirty pieces of silver. I sold out Scott County for one million dollars." This passage is interesting to me because Billy Singer the only man who could have stopped the Toyota plant from being built is now regretting even to this day selling his land to the government. its strange to think that one mans decision can help out an entire state by selling some land, after he sold his land and the factory was built the county doubled in size to about 45,000
ReplyDelete"In the year 1915 a drunkard I hope will be as infamous in society as a liar or a thief, and the use of spirits as uncommon in families as a drink made of a solution of arsenic." This is a direct quote from a passage that caught my attention. Reading this quote shows how much alcohol was despised at the time, and how horrible people thought it was. Many fought against alcohol, trying to make the drinkers the center of attention, but not in a good way.
ReplyDelete"In the year 1915 a drunkard I hope will be as infamous in society as a liar or a thief, and the use of spirits as uncommon in families as a drink made of a solution of arsenic." This is a direct quote from a passage that caught my attention. Reading this quote shows how much alcohol was despised at the time, and how horrible people thought it was. Many fought against alcohol, trying to make the drinkers the center of attention, but not in a good way.
ReplyDelete