The Vampire Diaries

In it were many books that I quickly dismissed as boring, lengthy, and pictureless. My interest at that time was not in reading but primarily in video games and playing baseball but my mother bought me a book that I could not put down, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a book about a middle school student by the name of Greg Heffley. Greg is a lazy, socially awkward individual with his only hobby being that he plays video games. He eventually has a crush on a girl by the…

The story The Hiding Place is narrated by Corrie ten-Boom. She talked about the trials her family, the ten-Boom family, went through during World War ll. The ten-Booms live in Haarlem, Holland in a house known as the Beje. The book begins with the ten Boom family celebrating the 100th anniversary of the watch shop. In the next few chapters, Corrie talks about her childhood and glad-hearted mother, and the three aunts who once lived in the Beje. After the deaths of Corrie's mother and aunts, it…

Many concepts of socialization are found throughout films which allow these concepts to be further demonstrated and studied. In the film Mean Girls, the main character Cady Heron is an individual who has been home schooled her entire life until her junior year of high school. Her expectations of high school are met with a harsh reality of the underlying social concepts of the other students. Cady is essentially in two different cliques which allows her to have alternate identities, and as a…

Over 500 books have been written about the Holocaust. Sara Young has written one of them, My Enemy’s Cradle. A Jewish girl loses her German cousin to attempted abortion and uses her identity to save her own baby. This taught me to love with all you have and focus on the good in life. Cyrla has always wanted to be Anneke. When Anneke gets pregnant, she sees no other way out. Anneke attempts abortion and bleeds to death. Cyrla, who is Jewish, uses Anneke’s German papers to help save her own life.…

Number The Stars is a great book based upon a true story. It is placed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941. Years after the war started, the Nazis started to patrol the streets. There are two main characters, Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen, which are best friends. Annemarie and Ellen come face to face with a wild adventure that reveals the danger of knowing the untold, knowing the untold secrets, and knowing the told lies, and the. One of their lives is in serious danger. Annemarie and Ellen…

believe in. Anne wrote in a diary called kitty and treated it as a real person. It was her little friend who she could tell anything to. Almost everything we know today about the Frank family is known because of her diary. She named the diary 'kitty'. After many months of hiding the Frank family was found in their hiding place, The Secret Annex. They were taken to concentration camps where they later died. But that is just where their story began. Anne's diary allowed us to get an inside…

The Holocaust, it was a huge event in national history, and it affected thousands of people. In June of 1942, with the dreaded situation for the Jews, the Franks decided to go into hiding in secret in their office building. Along with a few others, Miep Gies agreed to be a "helper," to them, by bringing them food that she would collect from different food sources, with illegal ration cards her husband had procured as part of the Dutch resistance. Miep and her colleagues also made sure that the…

The Devil’s Arithmetic has been made from a book into a movie, but the movie does not follow the exact details of the book. The stories are generally the same, but many of the specific parts of the book aren’t in the movie, or vice versa. Both the book and the movie tell the story of a girl transported to the past. While she learns of her family’s past in the concentration camps, different events happen in the different tellings of the story: the book and the movie. The Devil’s Arithmetic the…

The euphemism used by the Nazis where "an area free of Jews " and "cleaning operation". The historical content where Anne Frank is writing is in a secret annex in Amsterdam , Netherlands during world war 2.Anne's emotions at the beginning of her diary will make a person feel happy because Anne said,"our lives compared to other Jews , were in paradise". All though Anne thinks she's in paradise she still has many fears. For example being trapped during an air raid creates a sense of sadness…

Anne Frank, in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. This girl has documented her experiences from the moment her religious group was being slaughtered by Nazis and went into hiding to when she was captured and sent to a concentration camp. Although she was eventually captured, Anne tried to make the best of it and had a positive attitude, even in the most impossible situations. The impact and thoughts are revealed in words by many people. In Anne Frank: The Diary of an Young Girl, her journal…