The
End (5/23-6/4): Reflection & Synthesis
This week you will be finishing your books.
As you read I want you to think about how the book ends in relation
to how it started. Imagine if you could create a memorial to honor
something from this book.
1. How did the main character change?
2. What are the important ideas (conflicts,
character traits, people, places) that you would want to include in
your memorial?
3. How would these ideas be represented (what
symbols, colors, materials, etc would you use)?
Posting assignment:
Posting assignment:
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Answer the questions listed above.
Post your idea of the most significant/important
thing to memorialize from your book (consider both the perspective
represented AND the main character). Explain WHY you would want to
memorialize those traits, actions, etc.
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Respond to other posts by asking questions, providing memorial suggestions, or offering your opinion.
The main character in this book(Lina,) changed because at the beginning of the book she was very scared of everything at the camps but then after she had been there awhile she wasn’t ask scared of them, like how she yelled at one of the guards that she hates him. Also, when she left the note buried at the end, it showed that she knew it was wrong and wanted people to know about it. That proves she wasn’t as scared of them anymore.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to make a memorial, I would include; the lines of train cars, people sitting on the ground in lines getting forced to sit there until they sign for 25 years, the freezing people in the polar ocean, and the way Lina saw the guards; with snakes in their eyes.
I would represent these with a drawing. I would want to draw them because I think that would also represent how drawing was a huge part of the book. I would draw tons of people sitting in lines on the floor, with a NKVD in the front, snakes slithering around him. I would make it be from a birds eye view and you would be able to see that they’re on an island in the middle or nowhere, snow all around them.
I agree with you, Addie. I think that the snakes would be a representation on how terrible the NKVD were to Lina.
DeleteI feel that leaving the notes in the bottle was a very brave thing of her to do too.
DeleteIt is true how Lina, yelled at the NKVD guard but shortly after that she started to feel sympathy for him because of what he had gone through as a child.
DeleteOur main character, Lina, used to be scared of just about anything, but now she's braver than ever. She yelled at an NKVD about how much she hated him. This proves she wasn't afraid to stand up to him. My memorial would represent how the NKVD looked in Lina’s eyes. I am going to do a drawing because drawing had a huge part to play in the book. I will draw the NKVD with snakes wrapped around them, almost as if they were their pet snakes, roaches coming out of their mouths, black wings, claws, red eyes, and wild hair to make them look like vicious monsters, which Lina thought of them as.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with you on how drawing seems to be a good idea because it was such a big part of the book. Great thinking!
DeleteLina changed in many ways from the beginning of the book to the end. One of the ways she changed is that at first she absolutely despised Nikolai Kretzsky, an NKVD soldier, because he was helping her mother, yet was still extremely mean to Lina and her mother. At the end of the book, Lina came across him when she was out to steal some wood for her fire. Kretzsky started to explain how he did not want to be there and that he was also like a prisoner. At first, Lina did not feel bad for him one bit because of all the mean thing he had done to her. Kretzsky then began to cry, as a result of thinking about all the bad things that happened to him as a child. That's when it hit Lina she then began to have sympathy for him because she was going through the same type of loss he was going when through and could understand his sadness. No longer hating Nikolia Kretzsky is a way she changed from the beginning of the book to the end.
ReplyDeleteIf I were to create a memorial for the book Between Shades Of Gray, I would include, drawn out pictures of all the working camps that people got sent to. Also, I would incorporate the NKVD treating the characters remarkably sickeningly. The NKVD would all look as they were described in the book by Lina. The images that I would create would go up onto a stone wall for everyone to come and see.
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