Do you like this picture of all of you reading so studiously? I think someone is peeking. . . .
I hope that you are becoming absorbed in your books and beginning to get a feel for the world of the book. Can you imagine how it must have felt to be Anne Frank hiding in the secret annex? Can you imagine how True Son felt when he was returned to his white family? Think of all the challenges those two faced.
For your first post, I want you to consider the challenges the main character in your book faced, and think about which of those challenges would have been the hardest for you. Write a paragraph or two responding to that question or to a classmate's response to that question.
Remember the blog rules:
- Be nice. Don't say anything negative about a classmate or any other person.
- Posts must be signed with first name only (Madisons should also include a last initial).
21 comments:
It would have been awful to have been in hiding. I do not think I could possibly leave all my friends, my pets, my home and most of all my belongings. I would be so frightened if I were Anne because you wouldn't know if you were going to be alive in the next hour. I would be most upset about not being able to go outside and see the sun shine. I also think the other people would get on my nerves. I don't know why but when I'm with someone for a long time they seem to get very annoying.
Anne Frank faced many challenges while hiding in the secret annex. One of them was that the whole "Secret annex family" had to stay very quiet so they would not be discovered. They could talk they just had to talk very quietly. This was hard for Anne because she was a chatterbox.
That would be the hardest challenge for me. I constantly chatter (quite loud too.) I'm also very clumsy so I would trip and fall and make a loud noise. If I had lived in The secret annex, people would have been able to tell the we were there within the first couple days.
Anne Frank Had to leave her home friends and Boyfriend, not something all of us wants to do. Right? Scarier, Which one of us would want tot be cooped up in a building with low soft voices. Everyone needs fresh air but for her, there was none. No playing outside, Riding her bike or even reading under a tree, how could anyone do that? And don’t sometimes you just want to scream because you haven’t used your voice at the max? Sometimes when I have to be quiet for along time as soon as I can I let my voice out I do go outside and talk and talk until I think I have my voice back. Anne Frank wasn't happy about this. She got in fights with her Mom and yes I do get into fights with my mom but they last like 1 day at the most. But Anne Frank is at this age that she doesn’t understand it their way and thinks she’s right and thinks no one but a few people (Her Daddy, The darling) understand her. Everyone feels that way every once in awhile, No doubt.
I would have been very freaked out if I would have had to go into hiding. I mean, you would have to leave all of your toys, books, games, and only get to bring the necessities. If you are ever locked up inside of a small house, have a tiny bedroom, you know you probably won't be able to keep the peace for very long. You would not be able to get any fresh air or go outside and just appreciate life. They had to be very quite during working hours, and me, I think I'm kind of like Anne and would not be able to sit down and whisper for a long period each day. I think that would be the hardest challenge. You would not be able to hear any news about your friends, all you would know would be that Jews are being killed every day. They could be your best friends.
It would have been so hard to be in hiding like Anne Frank in the secret annex. It would be so hard for me because I love to talk and I can’t keep quiet for very long. Every time I wanted to talk I would not be allowed to and I think that it would be hard. Anne, her family, and friends were very brave to go into hiding because if they get caught they could be persecuted. That is another thing I found very likeable about Anne and the secret annex family. I feel that this is a very good book and everyone should (at some point in his or her life) read this book.
I agree with every person that has posted so far.
I think it was hard for Anne the most was living in a "Secret Annex" with a whole bunch of people. I know if I was cramped up in a house almost everyday with a clan of people with different moods, likes, and dislikes I would get so fed up with everyone and everything that I would just burst!
I thought it was also hard for her because she couldn't talk or play very loud or it would give their secret away. I feel the same way when I have company over and I'm listening to my music on full blast and my mom says, "turn your music down or you turn it off!" That irritates me sometimes.
I think that it must have been very confusing for true son and hard to understand. Although he didn't want to leave and he didn't like the idea he still stood strong like he was taught.
Not only would it be hard for true son but it would be hard for all of his parents.
I don't know how I would be able to go to a new place and learn a new culture. Who would like to leave what they know and love? It must have been hard.
It would be horrible to think that I was a Indian and I'm really not. The father that taught me to hunt and take care of myself is really not my father. The hardest challenge for me would be to switch familys and have a different culture.I would never be able to switch cultures.
Being Anne Frank cooped up in a Secret Annex not being able to do talk very much, not being able to go outside and breathe the fresh air, see any of my friends and live in a house with people that are just as crazy as yourself but everyone having 100 percent different personalities would be impossible for me. I would go crazy not being able to talk that loud because I am a total loudmouth and I will tell you that is no lie. I mean I love telling jokes singing, cheering anything practically that has to do with talking or yelling. The other problem is having to have two complete opposites is bad enough for me but then having the whole house having opposite personalities would be horrible.I do not know how Anne Frank does it.
I am reading The Light In The Forest. The hardship True Son had to face was that he was being taken away from his Indian parents who he thinks are his real mother and father. True Son (John Butler) was taken away by Indians from his white parents when he was a baby. Now, True Son is 15 and is being told that the white Indian slaves must be returned to their parents. I cringe at the thought of being taken away from my parent (Or who I thought my parents were) like True Son. If I was being taken away, I would have done all I could to fight it (Like True Son did). I couldn't imagine what it would be like to be taken away from everyone and everything I knew and be taken to a completely different place with people I never knew and things I've never seen. I am very thankful for my loving family after reading this book.
True Son (John Butler) has to change from an Indian family that he has known for most of his life and is being taken away to a family that he doesn't know at all. It would be hard for me to adjust to a family that I did not know at all. It would be hard for me to leave my whole family that I knew and loved for a bunch of total strangers. I would try to fight against them because I would be so confused at which family was mine.
I would have hated to have to leave all of your family that you have grown up with behind. Even though you would have been able to return to your real family it still must have been hard. Then you also have to put all of your old ways of doing things behind you and basically have to start a whole new life as a different person.
The hardest thing for me would have been to have to leave all my family that I have lived with all my life and then leave them behind and have a whole new family and a whole new name. Then you have to learn to speak a different language and wear different clothes. I think that all of it would have been hard for me.
I think it would be really hard for True Son to have two families. He would have one family that is Indian and another that is his real family. He was only two when he was taken away and if that happened to me I would just be downright confused and upset. He even has two names, True Son and Johnny Cameron Butler. It would be very strange to have two different names. I would not like the fact if I had to choose between two different families. I wouldn’t be able to do it. True Son was very brave to do that.
gI think that True Son would feel awkward leaving the Indian people who he thinks is his real parents, for the white people who he thinks has captured him! Really, all of us in seventh grade who are reading this book knows that the Indians captured him; not the whites who are his real parents.
It would be hard to return to your real family after living with other for so long.Cause you'd think you were different from all the other's.
In the light in the forest I would not like to be or think I was something and someone take that away from me just like in the story true son thinks he is one of Indians than after being with him for so many years and all of his life would be taken away from him.
Life for Anne Frank would be incredibly difficult. Having to stay quiet, sometimes not even being able to move, would be extremely hard. However, not having any fresh air or sunlight would be the worst for me. Anne frank and her family had to have been extremely brave to attempt to hide in the secret annex. I admire them for that very much.
It would be hardest to be True son. The reason why is because he was taken from his family the people who raised him. I would not know what to do if that were to happen to me and then to think you may not ever see them again. Then you have to think of what will happen to you in the new world with a group of people that you have fought with. I would have given up life if I was taken from my family that raised me.
I think it would be horrible if you were taken when you were about two years old. Also you where starting to learn a couple of words and getting used to your house and family and your village got attacked by Indians. Then you got taken and learned an Indian life which would scare me half to death when you have just learned who your real parents are.
The situation True Son (John Butler) is in makes me think what I would do if I had to go back to China. Both True Son (John Butler) and I don't know our ancestors language. I don't know if fight like True Son (John Butler) did but I would feel the same way about my captors.
The hardest thing I can think of would be being torn from the family I'd been with since I could remember. Also thinking I would never see my friends again would be pretty horrible.
For me to be in True son’s position would be very hard because I am certainly not as brave as him. When True son was taken to his real parents he did not cry try to escape or even show any emotion unlike I would. The hardest part for me though would be not knowing which people to believe the parents who raised me since I could remember or the people that I was told where my enemies who have a lot of stories about my childhood. For me the thought of not knowing who my real parents are were just shows me how scared I would be and it shows me how brave True Son was.
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