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Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Rose Blanche by Roberto Innocenti - A Different Perspective
We are reading Rose Blanche in class. Open the above link and watch the video retelling.
Book Review Excerpts:
"An excellent book to use not only to teach about the Holocaust, but also about living a life of ethics, compassion, and honesty." - School Library Journal
"This is a stunning book and a forceful argument for peace. All ages." - Publishers Weekly
Do you agree with the reviews? Explain your answer.
When I say that this book shows a "different perspective" what do you think I mean?
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I think when Mrs. O'Hara means that this story is from the eyes of a German, where other books are in they eyes of the Jewish or of the Allied forces when she says this book shows a "different perspective".
~Mackeznie
I agree with the reviews, because it shows what war can do through the eyes of a little girl. What this girl does for those Jewish people shows how nice and honest she is, and how one person can help a lot.
The book looks like a good book to me because I like to learn about history, and this is a fun way to do it.
~Mackenzie
Part 2 to "a different perspective".
I also think that Mrs. O'Hara means that the German girl is not Jewish and she is watching the war from the prospective of a German, but she is nice, and died because of the war even though she tried to help the helpless Jewish people. In this story, the main character died, which is different than most books. This book also shows how war destroys all that is good.
~Mackenzie
I think Mrs. O'Hara means "different perspective" because instead of being through the eyes of a Jewish prisoner, it is through the eyes of a German girl trying to understand what is going on with the people with the yellow star on their chest.
I agree with the reviews as well because this story is original because normally books about the Holocaust are about the prisoner, so this is an original way to write a story.
I agree with the reviews because trailer kinda teach's about the holocaust when she goes to the concentration camp to feed people food. Also because she's honest about how she's German and how she didn't try to stop it so in other words she didn't lie about how she didn't help apart from feeding them.
Yes I do agree with the reviews. I agree with them because this book sounds like it will not only teach me more about the Holocaust, it will teach me about living a life of ethics, compassion, and honesty. It also sounds like a stunning book, and a forcefull argument for peace. (All ages). When you say that this book shows a different perspective, you mean from Hana's Suitcase. You mean this in this way: Hana's Suitcase is telling the story of a Jewish girl, who gets sent to a concentration camp, but Rose Blanche, is a book about a German girl who helps the people in concentration camps, and gives them food.
~ Eileen
By a "different perspective" you mean instead of Hana Brady perspective or George's. It's also a different perspective means that she didn't know what was happening and George and Hana did.
I think that when you say this book shows a different perspective, it means that it shows the story from somebody else's view of things. In 'Hana's Suitcase,' it is telling the story of a Jewish girl who is torn away from her family and is mistreated by the Nazi's, while in 'Rose Blanche,' it is about a Non-Jewish girl talking about how war has changed her surroundings, and how she is trying to help the Jewish people in concentration camps by giving them food.
In the end, both of them die, with Hana's death being more direct. In Hana's suitcase, it literally says she died at a Gas Chamber in Aushwitz. To figure out that Rose has died, you need to infer, since it does not say that she dies, it simply says this:
"Shadows were moving through the trees. It was hard to see them, soldiers saw the enemy everywhere. There was a shot."
After this small excerpt, it says that Rose's mother waits for a long time for Rose to come back, and eventually, Spring comes (the story took place during the winter.) Knowing that there was a gunshot, and Rose never came home, you assume that she is probably dead. OR IS SHE!? Yeah, she is.
-Aidan
I agree with the reviews because it shows that a single girl can help a lot of people. She doesn't get affected much by the Nazis, because she isn't a Jew, (I think) but she still helps those who are affected by feeding them and keeping them company, even though there is a consequence. It's inspiring how this girl isn't like some people, and she tries to help instead of being like: "Oh, it isn't happening to me, I shouldn't worry about it, it's just happening to some other people, oh well." She died because she wanted to help other people.
What I think Mrs. O'Hara means is that the story isn't from a girl Jew's perspective, it's from a girl who could do nothing and be happy and stuff because it isn't happening to her, she isn't being sent to a camp. It isn't from, let's say, Hana's perspective, or the boy who tried to escape the truck's perspective, it's from Rose's perspective.
This is a different perspective in the holocaust because it is happy at the beginning, and sad at the end of the book. The holocaust is seen in the eyes of Rose Blanche, a German girl in Germany at the time of the holocaust. A “different perspective” in this case means that it isn’t being told as an actual Jew, which the other book that we have read were, but it was a German who was nice to the Jews. I agree with the reviews because it is a very good story, and it explains that this book is an “argument for peace”. It taught me that not all of the Germans were mean, and that some of them tried to help the Jews, but didn’t always succeed. I think that the ending with the gunshot means that Rose died, which is very sad, because she helped the Jews that were in the Concentration camps by giving them food. When she found the camp empty, I think the Jews were moved to the death camps.
-SJ
I agree with the reviews because it starts with a little German girl named Rose Blanche. The story tells you about what Rose is seeing as a little girl. She is a very kind and honest German girl, and she doesn't even know that she is helping some Jews, and she even might of been killed for helping Jews.
I think what Mrs. O'Hara means "different perspective" because usually Holocaust books are seeing through the eyes of Jews or soldiers, but this Holocaust books is seeing through the eyes of a young German girl, so this is a very interesting story for me.
When Mrs. O'Hara means a different perspective means that this is a story from the view of a german during WWII and she's wondering about all the different prisoners and stuff inside Nazi Germany. Usually in other books about the Holocaust it is about a Jewish person's perspective.
I also agree with the reviews because this book shows that even germans were affected in the war.
This book is also a bit sad and shows the terror of war because the girl died at the end, that is what I inferred at least.
First of all I agree with the reviews. the book shows all the comments on the blog. the book does explain the holocaust in a different way.When Mrs. O'Hara said this book shows a "different perspective" she means we have read the other book named “Hana’s suitcase” which shows a girl and a boy going through what happened with all the concentration camps, where this story shows it from a girl that is German, not Jew which means she seeing this happen not having it happen to her.
Ronan
I most definitely agree with the reviews. This book captures near-perfectly how the Holocaust effected people who were not Jewish. The people that were not Jewish didn't get to have a laugh and a cup of tea. It certainly wasn't a Happy Time for them either. It also shows how war will do to people through the eyes of a girl who sounds around 10. People died, Jewish or Not, and I think this book shows this fact amazingly.
-Aidan the Nostalgia Critic
I think Mrs. O'Hara means that the story we read was in Germany and also the girl was in Germany, instead of Jewish people and Hana from Hana's suitcase.
I agree with the reviews, because it is actually a very good book that explains what war does to people. It makes them starve and die. The little girl was really nice to the people who were starving, because she gave them food without the people catching her doing it. She was so brave to do that, because she did it even though she knew anyone might catch her, and she did it for people she didn't even know, and that is something brave.
I think that this is a good book for kids to learn about the holocaust.
Yes I do agree with the reviews because in the book it "suggests" that Rose Blanche dies and in one of
the reviews it says "...and a forceful argument for peace."
Rose died even though she was helping the Jews live by giving them food.
I think Mrs. O'Hara means when she says "a different perspective" is that we read Hana's Suitcase and Terrible Things and in both the terrible things are happening to the main character but in this one the terrible things aren't happening to Rose they are happening to other people and rose is helping out
I agree with the first review from School Library Journal.
"An excellent book to use not only to teach about the Holocaust, but also about living a life of ethics, compassion, and honesty." - School Library Journal
I agree with this review because I think that it says a lot about the book and how it’s about the Holocaust with some compassion, honesty and ethics as well.
I mostly agree with the second response because it’s right about how it’s “stunning” and “a forceful argument for peace” the one thing I don’t agree with is when it says “All Ages” because it’s a bit of a sad story with all the poor, starving Jews locked up in the Concentration Camps and the one little girl who tries to help ends up getting shot, so I don’t really think it’s appropriate for all ages.
When you (Mrs. O’Hara) say the book shows a “different perspective” I think you mean that the book shows the perspective of a young German girl in the Holocaust instead of the usual perspective of a Jew or Catholic or anyone else affected by the Nazi’s during this time. Instead, this story shows the perspective of a young German girl named Rose Blanche and how she tries to help the Jews locked up in Concentration Camps, this is a different perspective because even though the Jews, who were actually captured in this horrible time, suffered so did some of the people living in Germany at this time as well.
I think this book is very interesting and I’m glad we read it in class. I hope we get to read more interesting books like this in the future.
First of all I agree with the reviews because from the first review by School Library Journal said "An excellent book to use not only to teach about the Holocaust, but also about living a life of ethics, compassion, and honesty."
That means that the book is not only about teaching about the holocaust, but of a little girls life watching what happens. Also about her life filled with,ethics, compassion, and honesty. The other review by Publishers Weekly which is "This is a stunning book and a forceful argument for peace. All ages." I also agree with that because first of all it is a book that is stunning, and it is, and a forceful argument for peace and that means that there's a big argument to just have peace and last but not least is that is it is a book for all ages. Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, all would like it. This book shows a different perspective because instead of the perspective about the people (mostly jews) who were in the concentration camps, the perspective is about a girl who was German and was watching all the Jewish children being mistreated and taken away.
I am not so sure that I completely agree with the rewiews because, the book doesn't really give you that much detail as Hana's suitcase. I kind of got a little lost when I read the story "Rose Blanche" because, in a little bit of the first part of the story, the narrator pretended like she was the charecter, Rose Blanche. Then in the rest of the book, she was just reading it like a narrator. Also I think that the ending was a little different. I felt like the ending of the book had a missing page "The crocuses finally sprang from up from the ground. The river swelled and overflowed its bank. Trees were green and full of birds. Spring sang." and that's the end of the book. I just don't think it should end like that, and the book should have more detail.
When you say that this book (Rose Blanche) shows a "different perspective" I think you mean that, in Rose Blanche it is in perspective (point of view) of the Germans, the soilders/ Nazi's, and a little German girl, Rose Blanche. Where in Hana's suitcase, it is the point of view of the Jew's, the one's who got sent to concentration camps, and a little Jewissh girl.
When you (Mrs. O’Hara) say that this book shows a “different perspective,” you mean that it shows that same historical happening (the Holocaust), but in a different manner. ‘Rose Blanche ‘ is told from the eyes of a little girl who wasn’t Jewish, unlike ‘Hana’s Suitcase’ and ‘Terrible Things.’ The other two books are from the perspective of victims and ‘Rose Blanche’ is about a little girl who was a bystander.
Yes, I do agree with the reviews. I agree with them because in the story the little girl fully complies with the first review, “living a life of ethics, compassion, and honesty." The girl was just that. Giving selflessly to other helpless Jews and being compassionate towards them. It truly is “a stunning book and a forceful argument for peace.” The book ‘Rose Blanche’ really makes a deep impression in you, making you really think about this girl and what she did to help others and how she must have felt with all that was going on around her. I think that the reviews are very true and express the book.
Katherine,
Your comment was well written and showed depth.
Have a nice trip to the U.S.. I hope all goes well and you and your family will be in our prayers.
Mrs. O'Hara
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