Group Reader Response LC#2

1a. dehumanization- to deprive human qualities, personality, or spirits
1b. Once times in the camp started to get worse, prisoners were desperate enough to do actions that were at risk. Meaning that they were desperate enough to do something stupid to get food, or water. The result was that the prisoners would get beat or whipped.
1c. Eliezers starts to become more independent knowing that his father wasn't going to survive. Which was great because Eliezer had to do this to survive.

Group Reader Response LC #1: Dialectical Journal Practice

1A. For every action that the government makes, the Jewish people have to do what they say. If they don't, their punishment was death. First decree was that all Jewish families must stay in their homes for three days. All the Jewish people did what government said. That same day, Hungarian police came to every house and confiscated their gold, jewels, or any object of value. The Jews had their right of holding valuables taken away. After the three days were up, every Jew must wear the yellow star. The Jews had a mindset of that they were going to be safe if they just listened to the government.

2A.
 -Pg 5: Poor fellow. He's gone mad
The jews should have listened to Moshe the Beadle. The crazy psycho tried to help them. lol

-Pg 7 & 8: The Germans were already in the town, the Facists were already in power, the verdict had already been pronounced, yet the Jews of Sighet continued to smile
The jews still think that the germans wont do harm to them lol

-Pg 8: The first step: Jews would not to be allowed to leave their houses for three days- on pain of death
Before this, the germans arrested the leaders of the jewish community. This was just the beginning of the genocide.

Pg 9: The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it..."
(Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)
The father dies in the story? You don't say?

Pg 33: Those absent no longer touched even the surface of our memories.
Jews still care about their loved ones that were killed during the holocaust. 

Allusion Poem Final

"failure is apart of life...."
rerunning this memory through my head
is my biggest fear
"everybody fails at something..."

it seems like I fail at everything. 

leaving the gym, bawling in tears

they said "next year"

i disagree

looking at the dirty mirror
ashamed to even look eye to
eye with my refection
"...and that's why i succeeded"

i looked at myself right in the eye
next year, there is no backing down.
my failure is my fuel
to comeback stronger

...and train intensely.
eat, sleep, train is on the top of my dome
the gym is gonna be my second home
work on my craft day in, and night out

give myself the benefit of the doubt
failure is not the opposite
of success, its apart of it

"“I can accept failure. Failure is apart of life. Everyone fails at something, but I can't accept not trying"