Writing Prompt: One SUMMARY; One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Using paragraphing and apt quotations, summarize Part II.
2) Paraphrase a significant passage from Part II and in a brief paragraph explain to your reader why the passage is significant to the text as a whole.
3) Find a significant quote from Part II, and in a brief, well-developed paragraph, explain to your reader why the quote is significant to the text as a whole.
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Roger Tinsley
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ENGL 1003
9 November 2015
Summary, paraphrase, Quote of igofbeasts
Summary:
Part 2 starts by saying Martha Dodd fell ill with a cold. When a fellow Chicago Tribune colleague came to visit her she told Martha about Germany and some stories which Martha did not believe. Martha thought her colleague was trying to ruin her rosy view of Germany. Later, Martha met H. R. Knickerbocker "Knick" to his friends and they went to have tea, then to a hotel where they danced. Later on the book says that Berlin was a smiling place even though Jews were being killed it was still a nice place. It continues about Martha until it starts talking about what William Dodd does as Ambassador. It talks about a law that Hitler signed stating, "sterilization of individuals suffering various physical and mental handicaps. Dodd felt bored and thought Germans were uninteresting in his reports. Dodd later witnessed that Jews got beaten in the streets for the assumption that they were Jews. Finally Dodd wrote a book that angered the Nazis and very well made a enemy out of them.
Paraphrase:
Part 2 starts off by saying that Martha Dodd fell ill with a cold and a fellow colleague came to visit her and told her that the Nazi had concentration camps and were killing Jews and how some were American citizens. Then Martha wrote a letter and in it she stated, "I didn't believe all her stories...I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical." This brings back the question why didn't anybody stop Hitler? Some people knew about what was happening but why wasn't nothing being done to stop this. If a reporter for the Chicago Tribune knew this was happening and told her fellow colleague Martha that it was happening why didn't she say something.
Quote:
"As the SA detachment moved past, a group of men at the rear of the column decided the Zuckermans and Kin had to Be Jews and without warning surrounded them." Without warning they surrounded them and beat just because that thought they were Jews. this is how Germany was and people saw it and said nothing. William Dodd saw stuff like this and said stuff to America but nothing was done. if someone would say something and stand up then Germany would have been destroyed.
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ReplyDeleteSummery; In part two of In the Garden of The Beast continues as the have just set down in berlin so Dodd can start his new life as the ambassador for the United States. The chapter starts off With Dodd’s Daughter Martha meeting a correspondent for the Chicago tribune in Europe, his name is Sigrid Schultz. Schultz has a ton of friends that are high up in the Nazi political scene. Which helps Martha meet a man by the name of Putzi. Putzi plays piano for Hitler to calm him down when he is stressed. Sigrid later on tries to tell Martha the brutality going on with the Nazi party and Germany. Martha didn’t listen because she wanted to remain happy and keep partying and making a name for herself. Later we find out that Dodd doesn’t really agree with the Nazi party and their brutality towards the Jews, or Hitler’s plan to revive Germany’s military power. So Dodd writes a letter to President Roosevelt saying, “Fundamentally, I believe a people has a right to govern itself and that other peoples must exercise patience even when cruelties and injustices are one. Give men a chance to try their schemes”. Martha meets putzi who is the one tha2t plays piano for Hitler. Putzi tells Martha that he doesn’t like Dodd but finds interest in her. At the very end of this part you find that Mr. Dodd has moved into a Jewish bankers who offers them the lower three levels of their mansion. They find out that there house is right next to Captain Rohm the commander of the storm troopers.
ReplyDeleteParaphrase; when the Dodd’s move in, they find out that they live right next to Captain Rohm and also right down the road where the Nazi start to euthanize people with mental or physical disabilities. And Dodd continued to work on his 4 volume book like nothing was happening.
Quote: “The Americans coming to Germany will find themselves by influences of the government and their time so taken up by pleasant entertainment that which gave them little opportunity to really realize what the real situation is”.
This is significant to me because it’s shows that Hitler out smarted everybody when nobody really took him serious. And the Jews were suffering for it. The crazy thing is Martha and Dodd were so oblivious to everything. They both wanted to do their own thing instead of doing their job that they were supposed to do. And it also talks about in the book how Dodd kept violating the aspect of embassy custom. This just keeps showing me that Dodd was not the person for this job.
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ReplyDeleteIn part two of "In the Garden of Beasts" it explains a multitude of different situations. The part begins with Dodd starting his new life as the ambassador of the united states. As the part continues it is found out that Hitler is having those who are mentally disabled or handicapped killed at a nearby location. This part also explains the point of the Jews perspective. It is explained that not all Jews were threatened by everything that was going on because they believed when the came to power that all of this would stop. This ignorance led to deaths that could have been avoided if the Jews could of realized the significance of the threats. We meet many new characters in this part including a man who helps calm Hitler down by playing the piano. The book then explains what Dodd's job is as the ambassador. Dodd begins to realize the mistreatment the Nazis have on others.
Paraphrase:
A significant passage I found in part 2 is on page 58. This passage explains how some Jews left once they heard the threats but for the most part they stayed. Many believed that all the threats would not occur and that they were all safe. They believed that all of this would stop once the Nazis won power. It is said that life was like normal for the Jews until the attacks which were quick and over with in minutes.
Sig. Quote:
"Nazi attacks on the Jews were like summer thunderstorms that came and went quickly, leaving an eerie calm." This quote is significant because the Jews felt as if their lives were still normal. Occurrences throughout the day reminded them of a normal life so they did not think anything of these threats. When the attacks did come though, the Jews were not ready as the attacks came quick and deadly.
Dustin Parsons
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Freshman Comp 1
11/9/15
Summary:
the chapter starts off talking about how Martha is sick, and an American woman named Sigrid Schultz came to visit her. They just sit around and talk about Germany. It then talks about how Martha got annoyed at Schultz's effort to tarnish her rosy view. she wanted to be friends with her though. Chapter 8 starts off talking about how Martha was kind of a fluzie. she was popular among the younger officers. it then talks about how she met Putzi, a senior Nazi. at the end of the chapter it talks about how Dodd saw Jews getting beat, so he wrote a book. His book was not popular with the Nazi soldiers.
Paraphrase:
At the beginning it talks about how Martha and Schults talked about Germany and how Berlin has fallin and changed during the six months that Hitler had become Chancellor. It talks about how they had disagreements but Martha saw her as a key friend so didnt pay attention to the disagreements. this is important because people are starting to realize change.
Quote:
"Beneath the surface, however, Germany had undergone a rapid and sweeping revolution that reached deep into the fabric of daily life." this is an important quote because it lets us as readers know that Hitlers reign is already starting to make a negative effect on the community. at the same time tho people don't realize it yet, its remaining under the radar and people have no idea what is actually going to happen.
Nate Holladay
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English 1003
9 November 2015
Part Two- In the Garden of Beasts
Summary: Part two of In the Garden of Beasts tells of Martha Dodd’s success as a party goer in Berlin with high- ranking officials. Throughout the first chapter Martha indirectly ends her unwanted marriage with an American man who comes to visit. Part two also gives many accounts where Jews or American citizens are beaten by Hitler’s army, the Stormtroopers. Martha meets a Nazi official who prefers to go by the name Putzi. Putzi finds Martha “charming, vibrant, and clearly a woman of sexual appetite.” (73) Finally the Dodd’s find a house that is suitable to rent. They will live in the lower three stories of it while the Jewish people that own it will live in the fourth attic story to avoid conflict with the Stormtroopers.
Quote: “‘Personally, I would rather have my residence a half-hour’s walk away than to have it in the Palais’, he wrote.” (83) This reinforces the idea that Dodd was not exactly qualified to be the ambassador to Germany for America. He wanted to live a simple lifestyle with a smaller house, much like that of the Old South, yet an ambassador to Germany at this time needed to live a lavish lifestyle in order to accommodate the wealthy status of German officials.
Paraphrase: “In many other ways, as well, this new world was proving to be far more nuanced and complex than Dodd had expected.” (64) Dodd did not like this lifestyle of popularity and somewhat fame. He longed for his old life back in order to fulfill his lifelong dream of writing his four volume series on the Old South.
Dumar Camacho
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Freshman Composition
9 November 2015
Summary: W.E. Dodd’s daughter Martha, had been ill the first few days she was in Berlin. She received a visitor who was American by the name of Sigrid Schultz. She was a correspondent for one of Martha’s former employers. They started talking about things of their own lives but then ended up talking about the big subject rising in Berlin which was that Hitler had just become the chancellor. Schultz informed Martha about all of the horrible violence that had been happening against the Jews but Martha could not believe it because when she went outside into the streets, she did not see any of this happening even though it was true. She didn’t want to believe any of this was true because she wanted to keep partying to be happy and worry free. W.E. Dodd had been writing but felt as in if people did not care about what he had to say but then Dodd also saw the reality one day which was that Jews were being beaten and he had to write about it and turned into a book the Nazi’s did not approve of at all.
Paraphrase: Schultz meeting with Martha helped Martha start to realize what was really happening. Martha was only having fun with herself but did not know what was happening around her. Martha set herself inside the social bubble of Berlin. She had all of the qualities a man would look for and she was a favorite of many men of the young officers of foreign diplomatic corps. She was starting to meet new people and get in further with people who had power in Berlin.
Quote: “Dodd sought to maintain his objective stance despite early encounters with visitors who had experienced a Germany very different from the cheery, sun-dappled realm he walked through each morning.” This shows how Dodd was still in his own happiness and had still not seen what was the truth happening in Berlin. He thought everything was normal but then he saw what was the reality that Jews were being beaten by the Nazi’s
Megan Pliauplis
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Freshman Composition
9 November 2015
Summary:
Part 2 of "In the Garden of Beasts" starts off with the book telling about how Dodd and Martha are starting to get used to their new life in Germany and also introduces many new people involved over in Germany. Martha seems to be getting rather popular while over seas. She has been meeting many new people who have been introducing her to other new people. She enjoys going out with the new people she has met, obviously. Toward the end of Part 2, Dodd starts slowly realizing that Germany is starting to become more unfair with their Jewish people. The book tells us about how Hitler is starting to mistreat the Jews and other people that he is not fond of.
Paraphrase:
A passage that I found rather significant is near the top of 64. This paragraph is talking about how Dodd is noticing all the banners and swastikas (which were not called swastikas at the time) around town. In the middle of the same page, the book tells us that Dodd is seeing this new world as "more nuanced and complex" than he had imagined it. This goes along with the reoccurring theme because it shows that Dodd had underestimated what could possibly happen.
Quote:
"In his dispatches Messersmith reprised one theme again and again: how impossible it was for casual visitors to understand what was really happening in this new Germany." This shows that the Nazis saw nothing wrong with what was soon to be happening in Germany. They are thinking of ways to let casual visitors from America know that it is not as bad as they may think.
Part II
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Part two begins with Martha engaging with Germans in Berlin. Hearing continuous stories of the violence and destruction, she still thinks it’s all exaggerated and isn’t convinced of its severity. Although, the revolution was real and was accelerating rapidly, but “largely out of easy view.” German officials strongly enforced authority, arresting for mere criticism of the government and restricting Jews from high class jobs. Dodd wasn’t really fitting into his job as ambassador. His appearance and the style of his car countered against what Nazi officials promoted. Dodd, along with Martha, still believed that Hitler would soon fall from power. Martha continued to be made known among the Nazi community and eventually meets and gets to know close friend of Hitler named Hanfsaengal. Rabbi Wise, of the American Jewish Congress, tries to make Dodd aware of the catastrophe to come, but Dodd ignores him in belief that the harsh conditions of Germany are getting milder. Dodd even states that the government has every right to as they please to their citizens. The family finally finds room to stay with a wealthy Bank owner named Panofsky. They were granted access to the first three floors of the majestic house, which provided some privacy that Dodd wanted. At this point Martha describes her father as “slightly pro German” and that “they both didn’t really like the Jews anyway.”
Paraphrase:
On page 56 in, “The Garden of Beats,” Dodd’s fascinating view of Berlin still remains, but is countered by the views of writer Christopher Isherwood, of Berlin Stories. Isherwood reveals the serious nature in the government revolution. He knows that on the surface Berlin was a beautiful place, but the real intention and direction of Hitler’s regime was, “largely out of easy view.” The government was now encouraging authoritative power to arrest citizens at ease. Jews in particular were slowly losing rights to the jobs and privileges they once had.
Quote: Martha- “Her father, she wrote, was flourishing incredibly, and seemed slightly pro German. She added, we sort of don’t like the Jews anyway.”
This quote I find important, but also very shocking. The fact that Dodd is leaning more towards the Hitler regime and not caring about the Jewish prosecution is quite disturbing. It only reinforces that the wrong man had been placed in the ambassador position of Berlin. If Dodd’s attitude towards the Nazi party becomes more welcoming, the end result will only be worse. Dodd doesn’t know what’s to come for him and his family.
Summery:
ReplyDeletePart two of the book is about the Dodd family getting settled in Berlin and tending to the first of many problems and discriminations of the Nazi Party against American citizens and Jews. Dodd had to settle into a new Germany, Nazi Germany, he had to learn the new ways and throw out the rest of what he knew. Dodd had to get used to his position and his surroundings, as did the rest of his family, Martha especially had to learn the ways of this new country. She learned this by attending balls and trying to leave her old life behind. Even though she had some trouble leaving her ex-husband in America, as he eventually tried to win her back. Whilst Dodd had to cope with new neighbors and the Gestapo.
Para:
Dodd has had a lot of weight put on his shoulders, he has been thrown into a possession that he never wanted. He has had to put up with his daughters love life, which was never a healthy one, and the many lovers, ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands that she has captured. Dodd also has the pressure of his position to deal with, putting on different faces for different people, a smiling face for Hitler’s Germany and his government, a honest face for the American government, and a concerned face for the American citizens in Germany.
Quote:
“As the SA Group moved past, a group of men at the rear of the column decided that the Zunkermens had to be of Jewish decent and detached without warning surrounded them, knocked them to the ground and hurled a cyclone of kicks and punches.”
To me this quote explains the chapter because of the anger and hate that the Germans had towards the Jewish people. This also describes what Dodd had to deal with in his new position, the American citizens that were mistreated and their complaints were all on Dodds’ plate.