Bye Bye Blogging!

***SPOILER ALERT!***

My reactions for the ending of the novel I Have Lived a Thousand Years were mostly shocked reactions and relief. The reason I was shocked was because of the way they were treated towards the end. When everyone were put into trains and were being taken away and how Elii kept thinking are we being liberated or not? And once the trained stopped they got out of the trains saying they were liberated but then were put back into the trains. It was all confusing and the way Elli compared the situation as if it was a game was kind of sad. Because to think about it, in a way it was like a game. They were treated like dolls. And how they were told to line up by the side of the train for soup but instead they started shooting. I mean it's awful how they planned it out and nobody probably even thought they were going to shoot, they were all so hungry and desperate they just wanted something to eat! Its just so cruel. And how everyone slowly started dying it was heartbreaking. But in the end it did all come together and the way Bubi and Elli and her mom made it out through all the difficulties. It was like a relief. Because I always thought for some reason that Bubi wasn't going to make it. The theme would most likely be fear for the end.

My final thoughts for the project are that, I have learned a lot from it, especially from blogging. The thing I loved about blogging was that I could put my own thoughts and thinking and compare it with the book and the events happening in it, and it sometimes I could compare and relate the events in the book to what’s happening now. And I guess my way of thinking must've improved somehow maybe even a little bit because the way we expressed our writing into a blog has to have some sort of change in our thoughts. And I think doing a project like this was important. It taught teenagers like us to notice how cruel and awful the Holocaust was, and how we should not repeat the same mistake again. Even though some bits of it its going on today, such as racism, bullying, abuse of power, etc. But the whole Holocaust all together should never happen again. And at the same time we should remember it, for all those people who died and for all those people who survived.