3rd Quarther Reflection Blog

During this quarter I recently read a series called 365 conspiracy, it's very well written and very exciting. It was an action packed drama that was actually a film produced in Australia. I love action and I think most Australian stories have more of it. My biggest improvements was catching up on late work and ixl. I have been struggling on them for awhile. Now I understand most of them and I actually caught up on my late work. I am very proud of the fact that I made it. Because it took a lot out of grades when i had missing work so, since I redeemed myself it makes me feel unstoppable.

In my ELA class we had a book challenge. This book challenge required 40 books to be read. I have recently read 26 books my 27 is a sequel to the 26th. Well speaking about challenges the most challenging thing is ixl and blogs. Reasons because is that some stuff I learn in class i forget and, Or don't know how to paraphase.

My blogs have been progressing just fine though.  I some what get the concept of these written pieces. TIQA has helped me with my writing a lot. I prefer not to talk about how I learned about the world so, I will say it's very random and interesting maybe a little mysterious. But most likely because of my research skills have improved. So I find more accurate and very informational content on our world today. Most of the things happening today, I'd rather not say anything because I have my own opinions which may be negative and positive in some cases.

Life is beautiful blog

In the movie “Life is Beautiful” life goes on until one day when Dora returns to an empty house on Joshua's Birthday, and everything changes. Guido and Joshua with many other Jews, have been brought off to a Jewish concentration camp, but Dora requests to be brought along as not to be separated from her family. Guido wants to keep his son from being scarred by all of this, so he tells his son that it is all part of a game, and if he does what his father says, he will win a prize. ( even though he starts to not believe him )

But let's rewind the story for a minute Guido a very bright headed man whose brain is where his heart is and his heart is where his brain Is. This made the movie a very interesting turn of events, so I'd have to say the tone of this was to be very inspirational and grateful about life, and the mood is the same thing. From the countryside to the big town in Italy he has always dreamt about Dora and him being very successful in the real world to him and her life really was beautiful.


One part is when they finally kiss, because Guido has been waiting along time for it and she has too. It was absolutely perfect for them it was a dream come true then later it shows a time lapse of the future and it was those two with a young boy. Now this young boy is a son of a married couple ( Guido and Dora ). They finally had a bookstore and a successful family. This really shows life is beautiful because it shows what it means to be young and old in a bright perspective so it gave the beautiful feeling to the story.

In my ELA class we studied the holocaust for quite some time now. And this movie made me have plenty of connections with some of the research. During our research we found a group called the black shirts that ran Italy which took over Ethiopia. As in the movie the scene around the scene wee Guido and Dora kiss. When they announce the original leader of Ethiopia and the black shirts hail to the little decoration that is being brought out. The other one i connected is that when he was working in the camp he did the mining and carrying of metal to the fire. Which was one of the Laborite qualities the camps had. But the only off thing is that he was able to run around like that and there would be more guards. There was also a very sad discovery about the gas chambers Aka the showers. They still had the children and elders take the “showers” and killed them.

Night blog

Throughout  the book Wiesel changes a lot. For the most part his faith was questioned until there was no more faith left inside of him. In the beginning of his journey he was just an average teenage boy in Sighet. In the text Wiesel claims to be really involved and interested in his religion. Wiesel  states “One day I asked my father to find me a master who could guide me in my studies of Kabbalah. "You are too young for that. Maimonides tells us that one must be thirty before venturing into the world of mysticism, a world fraught with peril. First you must study the basic subjects, those you are able to comprehend." (4) This quote can reassure you on what I said earlier how Wiesel is devoted to his religion and is concerned on it. But now he questions his existence and how he would do fine without him like these words that Wiesel states, “The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames.” (The spiritual person that Elie once was is gone.) (34)



In the concentration camp Wiesel had only three values left for him, his father (which in the readings there should be some questioning to him and his actions), and his shoes and golden tooth. The doctor threatens him with the sake of taking his gold tooth. But since it's worth value, Wiesel would not be so foolish to do so. The shoes that he had kept him from infections and damage to his feet. This was the only thing that remembered him of his childhood. But now with those gone he loses faith and hope more times than ever.




In time Wiesel has changed he never really Wanted to get in trouble with the nazis cause if he wanted to survive that would not be good for him. In the text it states “My father suddenly had a colic attack. He got up and asked politely, in German,"Excuse m e ... Could you tell me where the toilets are located?"
The Gypsy stared at him for a long time, from head to toe. As if he wished to ascertain that the person addressing him was actually a creature of flesh and bone, a human being with a body and a belly. Then, as if waking from a deep sleep, he slapped my father with such force that he fell down and then crawled back to his place on all fours”. --- “I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I had watched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug my nails into this criminal's flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast?” This shows how he changed his personality all he cared was about surviving is key. Even he did not know why he did this…. not at all. (36-37)


Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York: Bansom Edition, 1960. Print.

Butterfly project

MY BUTTERFLY PROJECT      









I'd Like to Go Alone

I'd like to go away alone.
Where there are other nicer people,
Somewhere into the far unknown,
There, where no one kills another.

Maybe more of us,
A thousand stromg,
Will reach this goal
Before too long.


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