The Berlin Boxing Club

In the book “The Berlin Boxing Club” by Robert Sharenow there is a boy named Karl, he is a Jew that lives in Nazi era Berlin. He gets bullied for being a Jew. Karl doesn’t own up to his heritage. In the book Max Schmeling helps Karl out a lot. Nobody knew Karl was a Jew. He doesn’t look like one but the guys that bully him found out somehow. In this book there is a lot of action that makes you want to keep reading. In the book a lot of stuff happened but 3 of the main points was Karl taking boxing classes, the Nazi finding out he is Jewish, and Karl and his family escaping to America. Karl was going through a lot and seeing stuff no body his age should have seen or experienced. He would see cut open bodies outside on the way home, most of the bodies would be people he knew. Seeing and experiencing these things it shaped him into a man. Karl started taking boxing classes after getting bullied. He told his father and Max Schmeling was there and offered to give him free boxing lessons. Max schmeling is a professional boxer. It was always Karl’s dream to be a …show more content…
He didn’t know how they found out since he didn’t live in a Jewish neighborhood nor looked Jewish. He was tall and skinny with dirty blond hair and a small thin nose, he was far from looking Jewish. He told them he wasn’t Jewish and was raised with no religion, saying that got him into more trouble because they started thinking he’s a red which is something like a Jew. Later, in the book Nazis start harassing them in the streets and started making Jews their slaves. The Nazi started killing and breaking into the Jews homes. In the middle of the night they broke the windows and went into Karl’s house, Karl and his father fought them off. after they were done fighting them Karl’s mom, sister, father, and himself all packed and got away from that area so they wouldn’t get into more