The novel had a great way of showing how the Holocaust was and of telling Vladek's story and how he saw the Holocaust. My reaction was that the novel ended great and that it was a happy ending. A big theme to the novel is bystander. Many people stood there and did not try to stop the Holocaust, they did not help Jews in anyway or they just did nothing. Being a bystander has impact on the Holocaust because people could have saved many lives but did not. Bystander was a big theme and if others would have been an upstander instead of bystanders things could have been different.
The Teaching Tolerance Project helped us understand the Holocaust in a different way. Blogging was the main tool that helped us share our thoughts and hear from others that gave their ideas and comments. The contributors commented and gave their reactions to our thoughts. Using blogger people would correct and connect with our posts. Thank you for contributing and sharing your thoughts and comments to help us better understand the Holocaust.
Kyle,
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that the uptander/byatander has never been more important than today. If we allow aourselves to watch what we know is wrong, it gets hard to remember what's right and what's wrong. Tahnks you for blogging.
Posted by Bob Cohn
Kyle,
ReplyDeleteI think that the bystander/upstander thing has never been more iportant than it is today. We if wallow ourselves to be bystanders to what's wrong, we can lose sight of what's wrong and what's right. Thank you for sharing y8our thoughts
Posted by Bob Cohn
Being a bystander does not help the situation at all. If someone is getting bullied or picked on, you can't just stand there and not help. It probably hurt the people that were in the camps to see people not helping them, just staring at them. If i was one of the people in the camp watching someone get hurt, i would try to help them but i would be risking my life. It would hurt me to see someone just standing there and staring at me getting beat and not have them help. When people see bullying going on, you should always help if you could because if you don't it could get worse. If someone is a bystander and don't help, it will haunt them forever because they knew that they could help but they didn't. What would you do if you were a bystander? Would you help or would you walk away? I know i would step in and help because i wouldn't want that to be me and have someone not help me.
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