Final Blog Post!

****SPOILER ALERT!!***

My reactions to the ending of this novel was mostly joy I was really happy that she got to live and go back to her hometown with her brother and mother. And since I guess her hometown meant a lot to her since in the beginning the last thing she said while she was leaving was if she was ever going to be able to see her hometown again. But after that she moved to America, which I wasn’t expecting at all. But at the same time I was sad that her father and everybody else didn’t make it and she couldn’t even say goodbye to them for one last time. But overall I really did like the book because it always kept me wondering what was going to happen next and if Elli and her mother were going to be able to see their family ever again. Or if they were going to be hurt even more and how they made it to survive what was going on with them, like in the part when all the Jews were being shot at in the boxcars and what they did to get through all of that alive. One major theme that I think that was always in the novel was fear. I think this because Elli and her mother were always scared that they were going to be killed or be tortured. Another one was the constant fear that they were going to be separated or lose each other, since their love really grew over this time.

My final thoughts on the project was that it was way more funnier than I thought it was going to be. I had lots of fun blogging about this book and I really liked reading it too! It was something about this book that made me not want to put it down and keep reading but I couldn’t and that drove me so crazy! I also think that I liked the constant feeling of fear when something bad was happening or something bad was going to happen. I think that I have learned that no matter how bad things are at the moment to not lose hope and  to keep your head up high. Elli really showed that to me because she was around my age and throughout the whole Holocaust she was strong and was always taking care of her mother even if she was barely able to walk. Why a project like this is important for teenagers to be a part of? I think because it really makes you think “outside the box” and you think about the whole lesson even more and it helps you understand it more. Thank you contributors  for participating with us and making this so much fun! I really did have lots of fun and i enjoyed seeing what some of you had to say. Thank you!(: