The Pigman
The title of the book I read is The Pigman, by Paul Zander, it narrates about two teen agers that by accident meet an old man, they became really good friends and have an incredible relationship, they spend alot of time together and enjoy it, but at the end they didn't measure their actions and have to face some serious concecuences. the setting happens in John and Lorraine house, in Mr. Pignati's house and in the zoo .The protagonists of the story are Lorraine, John and the pigman, and the antagonist is Norton, because he wants to get into the pigman's house and still his things. The main conflit of this story is the lonleyness that this characters face, because all of them are really lonley, so they serch for company with other people.
The Devil's Arithmetic
The book The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen narrates about a Jewish girl named Hannah, she lived in New Rochelle in New York. Everything started when she go to a passover seder, it was a celebration that they do like to remember those times in the concentration camps. Hannah was really not very interested, mostly because of her grandparent that always get really exited and emotional. But something really strange happen to her that day, when she get up to symbolically open the door to the prophet Elijah, she transported to Poland in 1942. Her name instantly change to Chaya, but she don't know whatg is happening, and she insist that she is Hannah.
Shamuel, was going to marry his committed Fayge; they where going to the wedding and some soldiers stoped them. At first anyone knows what whas happening, exept Hannah. The "soldiers" start telling everyone that they have to go with them to be relocated; Hannah try to tell everyone what would happen if they go with he soldiers, but they don't lisen to her. They got into some trucks, the trip was really long, it lasted some days, and some people didn't survive.
When they arrive to te concentration camps, the soldiers were very rude with them, they treat them as if they were less than them. They got rapidly out of the truck and make a line of males and womans, then they send them to change their clothes to some ugly ones, and to take a bath, also they shave all their hair. They go to get tatto with a prisioner number and go to a very small room where they will sleep.
There, Chaya meets a girl named Rivka, she know alot of things of "supervivence" in the camp, and she give some advices to her, she also tells her about her family, that most of her family have died in the camp, that only her brother Wolfe is alive. They pass alot of time there surviving in the camp, and suffering alot, they learn new "tecniques" like that kids less than a determinate age have to hide from the comand to avoid being killed, so when the comands enter they have to run and hide in the trash.
One day some mans from the concentration camps make a plan to scape, and Hannah was going to scape also with Gitl. At the end they didn't succed, but Yitzchak did scape. Hannah and Gitl get to enter again to the room and invented an excuse to the blokova that they go out to take their bowl. But at the morning, the ones that got cought get executed in front of everyone, there it was Shamuel, he aunt of Chaya. Fayge was very sad and when they were going to kill him she run towards him and they got killed both.
When Hannah, Shifer, Esther, and Rivka were working, Hannah start to tell them a story that says that Jewish people will survive, that tey will have a country of their own and they start talking. A guars saw them and said that she is missing three girls fot the latest load, and she choose all the girls exept Hannah, but she tell Rivka to run away, that the guard will not know the diference between them, sho Rivka does it. And they all enter to the gate.
Hannah returns to New Rochelle in the passover, she saw the number in Aunt Evas arm and explain it to her, they were surprised, she also noticed that Grandpa Will was Wolfe, but they tell her that when they return to America, they change their names because remembering it was really painful for them.
Shamuel, was going to marry his committed Fayge; they where going to the wedding and some soldiers stoped them. At first anyone knows what whas happening, exept Hannah. The "soldiers" start telling everyone that they have to go with them to be relocated; Hannah try to tell everyone what would happen if they go with he soldiers, but they don't lisen to her. They got into some trucks, the trip was really long, it lasted some days, and some people didn't survive.
When they arrive to te concentration camps, the soldiers were very rude with them, they treat them as if they were less than them. They got rapidly out of the truck and make a line of males and womans, then they send them to change their clothes to some ugly ones, and to take a bath, also they shave all their hair. They go to get tatto with a prisioner number and go to a very small room where they will sleep.
There, Chaya meets a girl named Rivka, she know alot of things of "supervivence" in the camp, and she give some advices to her, she also tells her about her family, that most of her family have died in the camp, that only her brother Wolfe is alive. They pass alot of time there surviving in the camp, and suffering alot, they learn new "tecniques" like that kids less than a determinate age have to hide from the comand to avoid being killed, so when the comands enter they have to run and hide in the trash.
One day some mans from the concentration camps make a plan to scape, and Hannah was going to scape also with Gitl. At the end they didn't succed, but Yitzchak did scape. Hannah and Gitl get to enter again to the room and invented an excuse to the blokova that they go out to take their bowl. But at the morning, the ones that got cought get executed in front of everyone, there it was Shamuel, he aunt of Chaya. Fayge was very sad and when they were going to kill him she run towards him and they got killed both.
When Hannah, Shifer, Esther, and Rivka were working, Hannah start to tell them a story that says that Jewish people will survive, that tey will have a country of their own and they start talking. A guars saw them and said that she is missing three girls fot the latest load, and she choose all the girls exept Hannah, but she tell Rivka to run away, that the guard will not know the diference between them, sho Rivka does it. And they all enter to the gate.
Hannah returns to New Rochelle in the passover, she saw the number in Aunt Evas arm and explain it to her, they were surprised, she also noticed that Grandpa Will was Wolfe, but they tell her that when they return to America, they change their names because remembering it was really painful for them.