Summery and Notes and notice.

So far in the book Karina and Rita are talking and Karina says how she kind of feels bad for the jews. After this some one tips off the Gestapo and says that there is jews in the area. The Gestapo comes to Karina's house in the middle of the night. When they get here they are the ones that stand out the most because Hans hit Karina's father for interfering with the search. Hans comes backs and find the whole in the wall. Karina says it is her own little study room for hitler but he doesn't fall for it. He leaves to get other Gestapo members. Karina's father tells them to pack their things because they are leaving. They leave on bike and the book ends their.

For my Notes and notice, I chose aha moments. I chose this because there was a really big aha moment when Karina realized that Jews aren't bad and terrible. When Karina had her aha moment there was sort of a build up to it because slowly and slowly she would see that they aren't bad, Until she decides to go in the room behind the wall to play with Rachel. The aha moment was when Karina gave a bag of crayons to Rachel. Rachel asked if they were for her said if she is not lying in Karina responded

"Of course why would I lie to you" Her moment of clarity is when Rachael responds to this question-

"Because you don't like jews." This is when she probably thought to herself "Jews aren't even bad, they are just like us and not the enemy and due to my lack of knowledge Rachel thinks I don't like her." That was her biggest aha moment in the book.

Summary and Plot

So far in the book Karina has found out that there are hidden jews behind a wall in the house. She wants to turn her parents in and she writes in her black notebook that her parents were the enemy. But her mom yells at her and Karina doesn't tell on her parents. Since she also missed 3 meetings of the youth Nazi group the leader smacks her.

As the story gets closer and closer to the climax Karina grows a bigger and bigger bond with Rachael. I think that a break through was when Karina went behind the wall to play with Rachael. There was a surprising part in that same chapter because when Karina and Rachel were talking and Karina told her something and Karina said

"Of course why would I lie to you" and the part that surprised me was when Rachael said

"Because you don't like jews." It surprised me because this makes me think that she had lost her innocence at such an early age.

Summerey and Connections to another text

The Book is about a girl named Karina. She is very loyal to Germany and to Hitler. She is in a jewish youth group that brainwashes the kids to turn in people who are helping jews. So far in the Karina is told there is mice in the wall but what there actually is refuge jews. Once she finds out that they are jews hidden behind the bedroom wall she doesn't know weather to turn her parents in. Her loyalties are really tested when someone tips off the Gestapo that there are hidden jews in the area. They come in the middle of the night to search the house. That is where I left off in the book.

I could relate this to many text because there is a lot of of books about the holocaust. But perhaps the one that mostly popped into my head while reading this book was the diary of Ann Frank. The reason that I thought of that book was because in the Diary of Ann Frank she is also hidden in a secret compartment that led to a room up stairs, this kind of the same as Behind the Bedroom wall. I say this because they both have jews behind a bedroom wall. It is also kind of cool when you read both book because one is from a jewish prospective and the other one is from a German prospective and noth the main characters are in the same age so there stories are somewhat similar.

Holocaust Blog

The reason I think that so many people stood by and watched the holocaust happen was for manny reasons. The two main ones were that people were scared of what might happen to them if they did stand up and were up standers for the jews. A reason for this was because people who did this would be sent to one of the camps and killed or they were hung. Another reason people would be up standers is because this wouldn't affect's them or wasn't a threat.  If I were in the Holocaust I could have tried to be an up sander by hiding jews or at least feeding them in the ghettos. If i just sit back i will have this feeling in my stomach that wouldn't let me live with myself.