Writing Prompt: One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Paraphrase a single, significant passage from Part V and explain to your reader why the passage is significant to the text as a whole—why it is significant to Larson’s research question.
2) Find a significant quote from Part V, and in a single, well-developed paragraph, FRAME THE QUOTE (“quotation sandwich”), and explain to your reader why the quote is significant to the text as a whole.
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Paraphrase- A significant passage to me in Part V "of in the garden of beasts" is, at the bottom of page (214) and finishes at the top of page (215). when President Hindenburg who was the last restraint against Hitler. forced a public statement congratulating Hitler himself on his "great progress" Germany has made in the past year since his ascension to chancellor. he goes on saying he is confident in the next year or so with God's work, that Germany will be reconstructed. This shows me the rise of the Nazi part and Hitler rise to power. This shows me nobody wants to get in his way because they don't want to suffer the consequences that come with not following the nazi party. And the Nazi party will go on with harming jews and the same stuff they have been doing and everybody is just going to be ok with it.
ReplyDeleteQuote- " what our friend friend had failed to see from the outward appearances is the tragedy that is befalling daily the job holders who are gradually losing there positions." This is in the middle of page (213) Schweitzer is trying to say that the violence against the jews did appear to have receded, but "a more subtle oppression had settled in its place." What Hitler was doing was stopping the violence so it made it seem like they weren't harming the jews. When in reality they were harming them just as much by taking away there jobs, so they had no since of income and were being misread in a non violence way. Hitler made an Illusion and people bought it and nothing was done.
Megan Pliauplis
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Freshman Composition 1
16 November 2015
Part V Paraphrase/Quote
Paraphrase:
A significant passage in Part V from "In the Garden of Beasts" is in Chapter 31, on page 228. Near the end of the first new paragraph, the author tells the readers about how Martha is in her own bed in her own room with her own parents sleeping in the same house and yet she still does not feel safe anymore like she used to. This shows that Germany keeps getting worse and worse. Where once she felt so safe, she is now feels unsafe and in danger. She feels as if nothing can help her. This just goes to show that there is no place that anyone could really feel safe in Germany.
Quote:
On page 226 in the second paragraph, Larson tells us about how Martha could not believe that the Nazis have started to listen in on their conversations. The quote reads "Martha eventually found herself deploying rudimentary codes in communications with fiends, an increasingly common practice throughout Germany." This quote is telling us that being sneaky is a necessity now since the Nazi soldiers are becoming so strict on what others are saying in their private conversations and letters.
Paraphrase: In chapter 31 it begins with saying how the Dodd's lives are beginning to change. German officials are now going around trying to find those who are talking about Hitler and punishing them. In one instance, a man was afraid to have surgery because in fear that the anesthetic will cause them to say something that they do not need to say. In another instance, one man was on the phone and asked how uncle Hitler is doing and officials came to make sure that man actually had a uncle named Hitler. This shows the drastic measures that Germany had to go through to make sure no one was going to try and overthrow Hitler's government.
ReplyDeleteQuote: "Here was an entire nation... infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a ind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blighted all human relations." This quote explains the feelings that people were feeling in Germany. There was so much fear in the people that they were scared to even communicate on the phone because something they say might be misinterpreted by the German officials.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeleteAt the end of chapter 35, Moffat really expresses his continuous dislike for Dodd and his actions. He mentions Dodd as an unclear thinker and states that he complains about every aspect of his position, but suggests no way of fixing it. Dodd dislikes his staff at the embassy in Berlin, but doesn’t want anyone transferred. Moffat is not wrong in his thinking, but his is acting so repulsive towards a man, whom from the very beginning, was the wrong person for the job. This passage in the book is more evidence to support Dodd wasn’t at all the best choice for Ambassador in a foreign county.
Quote: “Hitler coveted the presidential authority still possessed by Hindenburg and planned upon his death to combine in himself the roles of chancellor and president and thereby at last acquire absolute power.”
This quote is extremely important to the text because it incites the reader on what will become the turning point in Germany. It shows the path that Hitler took in order to receive full power in Germany. President Hindenburg is the only person standing in Hitler’s way, still being alive, and once he passes, Hitler will use the rearmed forces that he has built up and begin his campaign of world domination and Jewish persecution.
Nate Holladay
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English 1003
16 November 2015
In the Garden of Beasts- Part Five
Paraphrase: “Hitler coveted the presidential authority still possessed by Hindenburg and planned upon his death to combine in himself the roles of chancellor and president and thereby at last acquire about absolute power” (252). This excerpt of part five of In the Garden of Beasts is Hitler’s longing for total control of the nation of Germany. He wants the current president to pass so he can become dictator and unroll his rug of terror for world domination.
Quote: “Best of all, soon after his arrival Dodd received the latest chapter of his Old South, freshly typed by Martha’s friend Mildred Fish Harnack and sent via diplomatic pouch” (246). This quote reinforces the idea of Dodd not being qualified for the ambassador of Germany. He longs to finish his series, the Old South.
Dustin Parsons
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Freshman Comp
11/16/15
Paraphrase: a paragraph that i found significant is the last new paragraph on page 223, it talks about the people and how safe they feel in Berlin. it says that "33% of the people who fled Germany felt a constant fear of arrest." it also says later on in the paragraph that "there arose among them a recognition that their ability to lead normal lives "depended on their acceptance of he Nazi regime and heir keeping their heads down and not acting conspicuously."" This really shows us the fear that the people have of Hitler and how much of an impact he is making. They say that you can live a normal life as long as long as you dont question Hitlers authority and what he is doing to the country.
Quote: There arose among them a recogniion that their ability to lead normal lives "depended on their acceptance of the Nazi regime and their keeping their heads down and not acting conspicuously."" This quote is significant because it shows truly how much power the Nazi regime and Hitler really had. People were scared to question him and what he was doing because they were scared of the consequences that would come with it.
Dina Fajardo
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ENGL 1003
16 November 2015
Paraphrase: Chapter 31
Things in Germany are changing and the Dodd family is realizing this. Others are also realizing this, they fear that they will say something that will anger the Nazi's. People were scared of saying something in their sleep or having Nazi officials listening to their conversations. The Nazis were punishing anyone who were talking badly about Hitler. For Martha she found this all silly at first, until Diels told her how serious this was. The Dodd's became nervous and anxious as they heard all the things that were happening there in Germany. Germany was becoming much worse everyday.
Quote:
"He reached Berlin on Thursday, May 17, at 10:30 p.m. and found a changed city." Dodd is finally understanding how much things are changing. He expected to be back to a place that he loved, but instead saw it in a different way. The atmosphere all around was different, and Dodd, for once, was realizing this.
Andrew Griffin
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Freshman Comp.
11/16/15
Quote:
“Hitler’s real purpose was to buy time for Germany to rearm.”
In part four, Dodd is coming to the realizing that Hitler is no one year fad, he is a tyrant that has darker intensions. His intentions are for a world under his fist, Dodd realizes that the Germans see him as their way out of their poor conditions. Part of getting the German people out of debt, and to re-enstatite them as the worlds super power, is to build a military. Which takes time, exactly what Hitler is bartering for.
Paraphrase:
Hitler is violating the Treaty of Versailles, by building a military, he knows it is wrong he is doing it. The other Powers of the day were not stupid either, they let Hitler, do as he pleased, not knowing that he intended to conquer the world. Despite Hitler’s many pacts for peace with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlian and Soviet Leader Josef Stallin, he would still be all for war, but never peace.
Dumar Camacho
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Freshman Composition
16 November 2015
Paraphrase: The passage on page 223 is significant to me because it talks about the changes that the Dodds were going through. They once had the feeling that they could say anything in their own home but even that was changing. They were in a constraint in a unfair way. They used to have the liberty to at least say what they wanted between themselves in their home but now they couldn’t and had to keep quiet.
Quote: “You began to think differently about whom you met for lunch and for that matter what café or restaurant you chose, because rumors circulated about which establishments were favorite targets of Gestapo.” This explains how they whole community changed and how everyone would question every little step they took before doing so for precausion.