Writing Prompt: One PARAPHRASE; One QUOTE:
1) Paraphrase a single, significant passage from Part VI 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 VI, 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 VI is when Martha seems to realize that her infatuation with the new Germany has "eroding." Martha has finally came to her senses in the summer that Hitler is not all that a good guy. She used to be able to look over some of the killing of jews. But Martha tells us that she has figured out that is has become Germanys "national pastime." This really changes my mind about Martha and her whole personality and thought of the nazi's has changed.
ReplyDeleteQuote- "these instances and others of lesser importance reveal a different method in the treatment of the jews--a method perhaps less calculated to bring repercussions from abroad, but reflecting nonetheless the nazis' determination to force the jews out of the country." Dodd has realized that yeah the nazis aren't using the violence they have been using. But the nazi's are being sneaky and running the jews out of there homes and business. The nazis goal is to pretty much run the jews out of Germany. Nut the fact that Dodd is realizing it and still not doing all he can to stop the nazi party still baffles me.
Paraphrase: A passage in part VI is the beginning of chapter 41. The chapter, Trouble at the Neighbors's takes place on the way back to the Dodd's house. They are coming back to their house when they realize a strange vibe in the air. Something was not right. When they came close to the road before their house they notice soldiers patrolling up and down the streets and other standing guard on the roof. The soldiers stood their all weekend leaving a very quiet atmosphere on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteQuote: Chapter 43 begins with the Dodds hearing rumors of the collapse of Hitlers government. It goes on to say,"With each hot June day the rumors gained detail. In bars and cafes, patrons engaged in the decidedly dangerous pastime of composing and comparing lists of who would comprise the new government." This just shows the hope people had of having Hitler's government gone and a new one to come in. This gave people some hope and kept the Dodds at ease, but not for long.
Dustin Parsons
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Freshman Comp
11/17/15
Paraphrase: some passages that i find important to the part is starting on page 284, the second to last new paragraph, all the way to the page break on page 285. This passage talks about how Papen, the vice-chancellor, made a speech on Hitler and the Nazi regime, and instead of talking good about it, he broke it down and really talked bad about it. we know from previous reading that to go against the Nazi regime was never a good idea and really meant a pretty hefty punishment. Papen does it anyway and he talks basically about how the government is unintelligent and doesn't know what they are doing. at the end of his speech he gets a standing ovation and gets a "thunder of applause." all this is happening with some of the Nazi regime sitting in the audience, but they don't look at all amused. at the end it says that at the end of Papen's speech, a sense of relief could be felt in the air. so he said what every citizen wanted to say but was to scared of the punishment to say.
Quote: the very last sentence before the page break on 285, there is a quote that goes, "Papen had put into words what thousands upon thousands of his countrymen had locked up in their hearts for fear of the awful penalties of speech." This quote really gives us the mood of the country. they are all scared of the Nazi regime and Hitler but are too scared of the punishments and what will happen to them if they do speak out. so Papen is really brave for giving that speech in public, especially with some of the Nazi regime in the crowd.
Andrew Griffin
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Freshman comp.
11/18/15
Paraphrase:
Chapter thirty shows that Martha is finally getting some cracks in her theory that Nazi Germany is a kind little house cat. She is finally coming to realize that it is instead, “a roaring lion seeking whom it may devour”. (1 Peter 5:8) This lion intends to feed on the flesh of God’s chosen people, and Martha is now beginning to realize that. She is finally coming to terms with the truth that she is so desperately tries to deny.
Quote: “On the medicine cabinet in the bathroom Jung had scrawled a single word: GESTAPO.”
This quote to me is the highlight of Part VI, it shows that the SS had fear of no man. They were a group of ravenous dogs, killing without mercy or care. What did they have to fear? They were Hitler’s lap dogs, they could kill whoever they wanted to as long as it was sanctioned by Hitler. They did not care what the public opinion was, they were able to oust any one as an enemy of the state, a Jew lover, or a spy, Germany was their bloody playground.
Dumar Camacho
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Freshman Composition
18 November, 2015
Paraphrase: Even though this is right at the beginning of Part 6, The passage significant to me is on page 263 on how it starts talking about how you could feel the danger in the city. You could feel the danger as if “an immense power line had been laid through its center.” This shows how much the danger had grown and how great and how much fear was in the city now. Dodd explains how you could even feel something even bigger that was going to happen and the anxiety of the people was growing by every day that passed. And when Dodd came back from America, He did not have much time to settle in completely into how he was working before.
Quote: “As summer neared, the sense of unease in Berlin became acute. The mood was “tense and electric,” Martha wrote. “Everyone felt there was something in the air but did not know what it was.” The strange atmosphere and the fragile condition of Germany were topics of conversation.” This shows how all of the community in the city felt this electricity and charge of something that was about to happen and it caused fear. Germany was in a critical state of fear and was a fragile country in this time period because of everything that was happening.
Dina Fajardo
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ENGL 1003
18 November
Part IV
Paraphrase: p. 275
Dodd is writing to Secretary Hull, explain how the "Jewish problem", still has not improved. The Nazi party were doing things to pressure Jews and forcing them to leave. There are people who were giving permission to divorce others who are married to Jews. They say mix offspring weaken the German race. But as Dodd writes, he calls these problems of lesser importance. Dodd is still not doing much to inform others about what the Nazis are doing, so they can be stopped already.
Quote:
"The increasing evidence of social and political oppression came more and more to trouble Martha, in spite of her enthusiasm for bright, blond young men whom Hitler attracted by the thousands." Martha is finally realizing what really is going on Germany. Before she ignored or gave excuses to reason what Hitler and the Nazis have been doing, but now she doesn't want to defend their wrongdoings. She still, however, doesn't want to announce her new attitude towards anything. Instead she wants to visit one of Germany's enemies, the Soviet Union.
Roger Tinsley
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ENGL 1003
18 November 2015
Summary Paraphrase and quote: Part 6
Part 4 starts by saying that a party in which Dodd wanted a person from there in which he was writing a letter about the Jews. It then goes on to Boris and Martha and how they are doing. soldiers stood at a neighbor's house probably thinking they were Jews and the army headquarters was just down the road. Hitler was very uptight about people trying to get him so i understand the security but this was years before the war begin and this was overboard.
Paraphrase p. 283
on this page it talks about Martha and her Father everywhere they went they heard rumors and speculation that the collapse of Hitler's regime might be imminent. but we all know that was just rumors and in fact it was striving, two former chancellors came up often as a vice-chancellor. so there was a potenital for someone to stop this but no did. if this was happening years before why wasn't it stop.
Quote:
"Throughout the week Dodd heard talk of Vic-Chancellor Papen and his speech and of the simple miracle of his survival." If there was a Vice Chancellor then he could have stop this madness that was happening but he didn't and just like the other people he is also to blame for that tragedy.
Megan Pliauplis
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Freshman Composition 1
18 November 2015
Paraphrase and Quote: Part VI
Paraphrase:
A significant passage in Part VI is in chapter 1, page 265. Hanfstaengl had a small bag of candy fruit drops and had offered some to Bella. Larson describes to us how Bella had loved these candies as a child, so of course she could not pass up the offering. The book tells us that before Bella popped one in her mouth, she saw that it was embossed with a swastika. This shows that the Nazis are literally taking over everything, even something as small as a little candy fruit drop. The Nazis are letting everyone know that they are taking over through the smallest symbols.
Quote:
At the very beginning of chapter 40, Larson writes "The increasing evidence of social and political oppression came more and more to trouble Martha, in spite of her enthusiasm for the bright, blond young men whom Hitler attracted by thousands." This shows that even Martha, out of all people, is even starting to worry. This is interesting considering the fact she came to Germany and has been going out periodically with new men she has recently met. It is now starting to hit her that Germany may not be the "delightful" country she had once thought it was.
Nate Holladay
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English 1003
18 November 2015
In the Garden of Beasts- Part Six
Paraphrase: “‘All these little dwarfs who think they have something to say against our idea will be swept away by its collective strength,’ Hitler shouted.” (285) Adolf Hitler is referring to any attempt that could possibly be made by any conservative movement against the Nazi party in Germany. Hitler is threatening to obliterate any conservative groups if they threaten the Nazi party, and snuff out all of their ideas as needed.
Quote: “In America that Friday the ‘great heat’ worsened.” (295) This quote is symbolic of the hard fought war America is about to enter. Just like many people didn’t expect the Dust Bowl, many others didn’t believe Germany was such a force to be reckoned with.
Paraphrase:
ReplyDeletePapen’s speech on what’s truly going on in Germany, offended many Nazi officials resulting in the attempt to suppress the publication. Although, still spreading throughout American news and even secret German publishers, Papen knew of the suppression from the Nazis. He went to Hitler himself and proclaimed to let his words be heard or he would have to make contact with President Hindenburg. Hitler immediately becomes sorry and sympathetic, claiming to make everything right. Doing so shows Hitler’s willingness to tell people what they wanted to hear, regardless of his true intentions.
Quote: “There is nobody among the officials of the National Socialist party who would not cheerfully cut the throat of every other official in order to further his own advancement.”
This quote really stands out just to show how power hungry the Nazis were, how corrupt and selfish their regime was. It also helps readers understand the meaning for many officials’ actions including violently abusing Jews. This the fabric, the backbone of the Nazi attempt to take over the world, to take power from other countries and raise themselves up above the rest.