Entry four- Violence Arises

Whats up! I just read my third section so you know we are getting down to the end.  I have to point out that my prediction was right about what was going to happen next in this book. My prediction was that this book was going to take on a violent setting because we are now going deeper into Hitler's regime and boy was I right.  This section explains about the violence the Jewish population of this time and what the Hitler Youth did to engage it.  Since the narrator is part of the Hitler Youth, the action in this book is through the eyes of a Hitler Youth soldier.  The Hitler Youth was a group of boys ages 12-17, that were part of Hitler's army and could fight in the wars.  They always carried daggers with Hitler's name on it throughout Germany and were trained to fight hand to hand combat.  The narrator of this book was one of them and he describes what the rest of the Youth did to those innocent Jews.  The book then goes on about minor details about how the youth trained and how much hiking they did to know the geographical layout of Germany.

So the first part of the section was about the outlawing of all things Jewish.  This included stores, traditions, and even the people.  I created a glogster about this subject just so you get a broad overview of what was being done throughout Germany at this time period.  As describe through the narrator, Jewish stores were raided of their goods and usually the owner was beaten up.  Although this sounds bad, there was an interesting point the Narrator made when he stated that no owners or Jews were to be killed because that would be inhuman.  I thought this was weird because beating them up, taking their things, and burning their property is pretty inhuman.  Anyway then the store would get marked by the Hitler Youth to show it was a Jewish store and then it would get burned.  I looked up why they would mark the store if they were going to burn it anyway and that was because they wanted to show the rest of Germany that Jewish traditions will stop and be no more.

The second part of this section is about the beginning of the Hitler Youth dominance.  The narrator was in a sub group of the Hitler Youth but now all of those groups become one that is called the Hitler Youth.  The narrator then takes us on journeys into training for the Hitler Youth.  The training so far is hiking and running, to make sure the boys are in shape in case they have to walk long distances.  The other part of the training was sleeping in the woods.  The narrator states that this helps for war in case they have to ambush the enemy.  Here is where you see some characters fight each other.  The narrator witnesses group mates fighting each other mostly because they are scared and they miss their families.  You get a sense that the kids don't really want to do this because they don't understand the complexity of whats going on.  Remember some of these Hitler Youth are just 13 or 14 years old so they really don't understand whats going on.  Here is another glogster to understand a brief overview of the Hitler Youth. 

So this so far was a very educational section but not a lot with the characters, I'm pretty sure for the ending of the book, the characters are going to go through a serious change and probably the Narrator is going to escape.  Hopefully this will happen but only time will tell. See ya next section!