Good and Bad Words

   Hello everyone! I hope you guys are having a wonderful day. Now, for today's blog I am going to be writing about different signpost I saw in the book The Grimm Conclusion by Adam Gidwitz. If you don't know the book The Grimm Conclusion, it is the last book of three, that tells the real story's of fairytales. The first book is called A Tale Dark and Grimm, where it tells the true story of Hansel and Gretal. The second book, In a Glasss Grimmly, tells the true story of Jack and Jill. The third and final book, tells the story of Jorinda (YOUR-INDA) and Joringel (YOUR-INGLE). These guys were born in an odd way and they're story is also quite odd and Grimm. In fact all three books have Grimm details in them. Grimm means "ghastly, repellent, and sinister," (exact definition in the book.) It basically means it has blood, guts, and multiple deaths, which is explained in vivid detailed. Read these books at you're own risk, I promise you will like it (hopefully.)

   Anyways, let's get to the point. The reason this blog is being created is because I found 4 different signpost in the book and I am going to write about them. All the signpost that I found mix in together, which is pretty cool! The first signpost that I found in the book is Words of the Wiser. Words of the Wiser is when someone old or wise tells the main character(s) advice and it either helps the character(s) or not. Some books only have one words of the wiser but The Grimm Conclusion has two, one is good one is bad. The bad one was in the beginning of the book when Jorinda and Joringel's mother gives them "advice". She says, "And never cry. Choke back your tears. Tears are waves on the ocean of sadness. You will drown in them if you're not careful. Believe me. I know." This quote is important because throughout the book those words kept coming back in childrens' minds. Like they were stamped on their brains.

   The good one is near the ending of the book when they are talking to a man (trying not to spoil). He said "All I'm trying to say is that it's okay to feel things sometimes. In fact, I think feeling things, even painful things, can be good." This quote is also important because it kind of changed the way Jorinda and Joringel feel things. They have been told terrible advice, by their own mother, and this man tells them that's not how it goes. I guess you can say their minds have been blow, with realization.

   In the end, this book was enjoyable and I'm kind of sad that there are no more books after this one, which is probably the third and final book is called The Grimm Conclusion. It wasn't just thedetailed Grimm stuff that made this book great, it was also the different emotions I had. Most of them were shocking, but it did have a some sad and happy parts. The story in all three books were very unique, and made me realize that this is extremely different from the story's Disney tells us. I guess they don't want us to know the truth. It too late now, I know what really happened, you can too if you read A Tale Dark and Grimm, In a Glass Grimmly, or The Grimm conclusion by Adam Gidwitz.

Anne Frank and I Problems

   For the past few days my ELA class was reading Anne Frank's play. I think it was pretty similar to the diary (didn't read the diary) but I did get to know the story of Anne Frank and her family. If you don't know who Anne Frank is, then I'll tell you. Anne Frank was a girl who hid away with her family for a few years from the Nazi soilders, who were trying to kill her and her family because they were Jewish. While hiding Anne had a diary and wrote in it. Sadly the Nazi soilders found her and her family and killed them all. However, her diary was found and people told her story about hiding away from the Holocaust. While hiding away from the Nazis,

Stand Up!

   First of all I think people stood by and just watch others get hurt because they thought it wasn't a big deal and will wait until the situation gets bigger. However, this is a bad idea because the situation will get worse and now people can't do anything about, since it's already too big. Second of all, people stood by and watch because they were afraid that it was going to happen to them, they thought they were going to get attacked. However, even if you did not do anything, and you were Jewish, Gypsies, or homosexual, then you would be attacked as well. I think what inspired others to stand up/resist to the Nazis was they knew that this wasn't fair to the Jewish people. Also, they knew it was the right thing to help them even if they had to risked their lives. If I was in one of the people's shoes I think in would have help some of the Jewish people. Why? It's because people shouldn't be kill for that kind of reason. Being killed because of your religion, it not fair. I think I would kind the Jews in a chamber like how the family hide Ann Frank and her family. Or have them "work" in a factory when really there also hiding, like what Oskar Schindler did. Who knows maybe I could have saved a lot of Jewish people in that time, just how those people helped a lot of Jews.