The Black Void

I called this story the black void because there were a lot of relationships with the color black, and this void was totally endless. I expected that the person with the black dot would leave the community to keep it simple and small. Because the lottery gave me a feeling of that it wasn’t nice, it made me think that people would leave the “village”. I really wanted to know how this cruel thing was going to end, but I also didn’t want to read it because I expected it to be ugly. I totally followed the instructions because I opened it the day afterwards. I hoped not to get the black dot because in the story it was a bad thing so I thought it would be bad in our world too.

After all the tension with the black box the lottery itself came and the box was the most important thing in the story for a while and the tension created by the pieces of paper made this very scary and un-expecting. When I read the end of the story I was very thrilled and thought it was a totally mad story when I did like it in the beginning. My predictions weren’t correct, but were pretty close so I felt proud for coming pretty close. If the author would have described more about the stones it would have easily made sense in very less seconds.

Leaving a void in this story created our tension and questioning after a while, because it totally didn’t make sense with so many voids cramped up together, which made a big void, and made it pretty weird.

This big void created a lot of power, which made us all question and want to keep on knowing something, which creates frustration and when frustration is created it is a lot of power I may say.

Shmuel's Point of View (Introduction to the book: The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas

"He...Hell...Hello", I hesitated. "Hello", said the chubby boy approaching the wired fence I sat next to. "What's your name", he asked. "Shmuel", I answered, shyly. Still wishing I could shake his hand like real gentlemen,, like my papa would say. "What is yours?". "Bruno", the boy said loudly. (I personally thought he was a bit too loud.). "I've never heard anyone named Shmuel before", he chuckled. "And I have never heard anyone named Bruno before!" I said disgusted and slightly angry, because I thought my name was absolutely normal. "I am an explorer," Bruno said proudly. I thought he was way too young to be an explorer, but thought that's probably what he would like to become when he grew up. If he grew up.

Looking Beneath the Surface

World famous photographer, Steve McCurry, was born in Philadelphia in 1950. In 1987 he started freelancing as a photojournalist. Some may say that his most thrilling photo, the most famous worldwide image, is the Afghan Girl with the glowing green eyes. Steven McCurry’s images represent humanity. Some of his subjects are sometimes taken in harsh circumstances, for example poverty and war, or the cruel corruption that rules their country. Steve McCurry says “…the pictures I shot back in 1980 are still as vibrant and as wonderful today as when I shot them.” This proves that he feels the pain and sadness of whom or what he captures, and shows his great skill of how he thinks about the world.

To me, the conflicts that cause the sadness is shown in this image, because of that one man who walks there, which emphasizes the loneliness to me. I think the background is less obvious, but still very important, because of the nothingness that flows in those mountains. To me it means how this man is walking away into the void. I think McCurry made me feel this way because of the man. My eye was immediately drawn towards the alley line in the middle. After a while of looking at the alley, I understood that this meant to be a big scar going across the land, which emphasizes the pain that this country has suffered.

I have learnt that photography has more than one meaning, and that there could be a story to a photograph. I think McCurry’s work reflects a great journey because he goes around the world and photographs the culture and the people of a country, which shows how he moves around in places and finds the best places to make pictures of. I think McCurry’s photographs also reflect the importance of a country.

1. The stages before the Final Solution are: Stage 1 classification, when people find who is Jewish, Gypsy, etc. Stage 2 is symbolization when the Nazi’s mark the victims. Stage 3 is dehumanization when the Nazi’s murder specific groups. Stage 4: organization is when they attack the homes. Stage 5 is polarization when they separate people. Stage 6 is preparation, when they mass murdered everyone with gas.

2. I see people looking at the wired fence, and they want to leave the ghetto. I feel like I want to help the people inside there, and from looking at the picture from my picture, it looks like you could just climb over.

3. Jews were treated like they were nothing, not a human, and the Nazi’s thought of the Jews this way because the Jews work very hard and always try to reach their goals. The Nazi’s think they took their jobs because the Jews work hard for it.

4. I don’t know the answer to this question.

5. They used it because it was easier.

6. To me those clothes being stuffed in the chamber mean all the dead people being stuffed away so they can’t be found.

7. 9 million and more unknown died in Auschwitz, not only in the gas chamber, but also when the Jews were starved to death, and when they had to work.

8. I don’t know the answer to this question.

9. I cannot describe anything because I don’t see any good evidence from this picture I am supposed to look at.

10. No this won’t happen again, and as I said already: “Jews were treated like they were nothing, not a human, and the Nazi’s thought of the Jews this way because the Jews work very hard and always try to reach their goals. The Nazi’s think they took their jobs because the Jews work hard for it.”

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