Story by: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Blog by: Harrison Young
In The Boy Who Dared, Helmuth is a seventeen-year-old boy who is in jail during the Holocaust. Helmuth is a Mormon from Hamburg, Germany. The reason he is in jail has not yet been brought into the story. He has been in jail for 264 days. He has flashbacks to when he was younger.
Helmuth flashes back to when he was 3 or 4. He was holding his mother's hand walking through the crowd of a parade. A german soldier came up to him and asked him if he wanted to be a soldier when he grows up. Helmuth says yes. I am wondering if he regrets this while he is sitting in his jail cell.
Helmuth comes back. He realizes that it is Tuesday. Helmuth doesn't like Tuesday. That's the day the executioner works.
Harrison, your post really tells about Helmuth and what the jist of the story is so far. His fear for the exicutioneris like the fear that Elie has for Hitler and the Nazis. It's really horrible what the Nazis and Hitler did to the Jews.
ReplyDelete-Ariele
From your blog entry I am very interested in the book. You have a great start but a little more info would help to understand the story better. Good Job!
ReplyDeleteThanks for a brief introduction to the book. I was hoping you'd further develop your ideas to include connections, observations and predictions. Please think about this next time.
ReplyDelete3.5/5 points. Underdeveloped.