Name: Alexandra Title: I Have Lived a Thousand Years Author: Livia Bitton-Jackson
Total Pages This Week: 40 pages Date: Friday, April 4th Pages: 1-40
Response:
Ellie, the main character in the book, reminds me of Anne Frank. She reminds me of her because they both were worrying about small things and now they are both hiding from the police/soldiers and they are both around the same age. I think that they both keep to themselves throughout the beginning and they both think that this is really sad that just because they're jewish they get punished.
I think that the sentence "But I cannot put the vision out of my mind. Bloody heads rolling around on the local soccer field become a recurring nightmare." is kind of interesting in a way. I think that it is terrible that Hitler or anyone would ever say something like that, but I think that it is interesting how her dad says that it is just a figure of speech. I think that her dad wants her to stop worrying about it even though he also worries about it. I think that he worries about it just as much as she does but tries to hide it because if he admits that he's scared then the whole family would be scared so they might even want to give up or not try because they would have very little hope.
Why do you think that Ellie seems more angry and says more than her family does about the war?
Friday, April 4, 2008
Weekly Readiing Response to I Have Lived a Thousand Years
Posted by Alex H at 6:00 PM
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Well I think that Ellie may really care about where she wanted to go. Because where the war is happening is where she wanted to go and now it is just all war. Plus she probably cares because it is all about the jews.
Since she is Jewish she probably cares that only Jewish people are being punished. So she actually cares that she is mainly losing her most favortie things. Jut because of a war.
I also think of Anne Frank when i started reading this
book because she is the same age and they both have to do with the Holocaust.
When i read that sentence it was very descriptive and i couldn't imagine someone saying such a terrible thing and i aslo feel bad for Elli because she can't get rid of that picture in her head of the bloody heads rolling across the local soccer field.
I think that Elli says more about the war because she wants it to be over so she can go back to school and be with all her friends.
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