As we read through Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic, answer the following in complete sentences...
1.) Hannah is a young girl, around your age...in what ways can you relate to her? Explain.
2.) Why did Grandpa Will get upset that Hannah wrote the the numbers on her arm? Explain.
I can relate to Hanna because some time my parents get me mad and angry so much that I just go crazy just like what happened in the story.
ReplyDeleteGrandpa will got upset because in the consecration camps they put numbers on your arm to tell every one who you were. So grandpa got upset because he thought the nazis came back or he had a flash back.
1) I can relate to hannah because sometimes my parents get aggravated with me when we are at church or a special holiday. This is how I can relate to Hannah
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(1)I can relate to hannah because sometimes my parents get mad at me on speical holidays like christmas or thanksgiving. This is how i could relate to Hannah
ReplyDelete(2) I think grandpa Will got upset because the numbers were a marker for who you were in the consecration camps and he didnt want Hannah to ever be treated like they were in the consecration camps and he probley had a scary flash back about him in the camp
BY: Justin LeMoine
1) I can relate to Hannah because sometimes in class some people annoy me, much like Hannah got annoyed at her parents and Grandparents talking about the past. I can relate to this because sometimes in class last year everyone would talk about parties that had happened over the weekend for about two week. They were all talking about the past, and I hadn't been there. I think it makes Hannah a bit left out because they were all talking about something she hadn't been a part of so she really didn't know what so bad had happened. This often happened to me when kids in my class were all talking it up about the parties. We both hadn't had first hand expieriences, so we wouldn't know how to feel.
ReplyDelete2) Grandpa Will got upset about Hannah drawing the numbers on her arm because she was copying what Hitler made the Nazi's do, and Hitler or the Nazi's weren't good news. He probably worried that Hannah thought it was a good thing to do, so he got scared that she might be thinking the Nazis, or Hitler, were good people. I think he also got upset about it because when he saw that Hannah had drawn them, it brought back painful memories and he had a freak out, like he did in the living room when the TV was talking about the Concentration Camps.
This is why I think Grandpa Will freaked out about Hannah drawing the numbers on her arm.
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The poetic Melly P
1. I can relate to hannah because sometimes i don't like going to my family's houses for holidays because they always tell me how much i have grown and they talk a lot about what happened a LONG time ago.
ReplyDelete2. i think that Grandpa Will got upset with Hannah Because the tatoo on his arm wasn't a good thing and he might have remembered all the bad things about the camps.
~~~~~ Meg Cardi
(Meggles)
1. I can relate to Hannah because my family always says that I have grown so much from the last time they have seen me. They also talk about things that happened a long time ago.
ReplyDelete2. I think that Grandpa Will was very upset with Hannah about writing numbers on her arm because the numbers didn't mean anything good. Also they probably reminded him of the concentration camps and everything that he saw and heard while he was there.
-Erica Pullen:D
Kaitlin Kerr
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1) I can relate to Hannah because if my family was like that I would be annoyed too. I would be annoyed for the same reason too, "it's the same thing every holiday, and I know that Grandpa Will was in a concentration camp why does he always live in the past!!"
2)I think that Grandpa Will got upset because he thought that Hannah was lucky she didn't have to got through what he did. But, because she wrote the numbers on her arm he might have thought she wanted it too happen to her too.
1.I can relate to Hannah by looking back at my experiences on the airplane when I was so anxious to get off the plane and to get to Barbados. I always, each year get a reminder of how boring and endless it is also I am in the type of state of mind when your thoughts are like when you are tired but gone though some that was mostly very long or you are think like this Must....stay...awake.............again and again and again.
ReplyDelete2. I think that Grandpa did not want Hannah to represent the life he had and that Hannah must take the number seriously. That is why he did what he had done to attempt to have her see why.
James Stead
Lexie Gomez
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1. I can relate to Hannah because my family is the same exact way. Every holiday i have to go to my cousins house where all of our family meets us. My grandma and grandpa always say how much I've grown and ask me what grade i'm in. My grandpa always thinks i'm one year younger than my real age.My family always talks about the past! Just like Hannah's family, they always say how much Hannah has grown and how pretty she is. I realized that Hannah doesn't like seeing her family on holidays, because all they talk about is the past and they can never forgot what happened, just like my family.
2. I think that Grandpa Will got upset for Hannah writing the numbers on her arm because Grandpa Will probably didn't want Hannah to go through what he had to experience when he was in the concentration camps. I also think that Grandpa Will was mad at Hannah because he probably didn't want Hannah joking around with those numbers and thinking that it was just a tattoo, that had no meaning to it.
1. I can relate to Hannah because she screamed at the dinner and it was supposed to be quiet and she got in trouble sometimes if i talk during the wrong times and say something dumb my parents get mad.
ReplyDelete2. Grandpa will got upset because he was reminded of how his own people were forced to dig graves for them and others. Also, He was reminded of how 60 pound Jewish adults were carried in wagons and just poured into the grave and the germans showed no respect what so ever for the Jewish people
By Nick Isabella :D
numero uno. I can relate to Hannah because she hates thinking about the past. I don't like thinking about the past either because some bad things have happened to me in the past.
ReplyDeletenumero dos. Her grandpa freaked out at her because the numbers she wrote on her arm represent that you were once in a concentration camp. he was once in one and he didnt want to remember it.
owen fox
1. I can relate with hannah's boredom because every year my parents practically drag me to my sister's strings concert where they do the same songs every single year and like her I get very tired of it.
ReplyDelete2.Grandpa will did not like the fact that hannah wrote the numbers on her arm because it hit a very soft spot in his heart because jews like him were given numbers to identify each person.so he already had a tattoo of a number so he got angry at hannah but then realized that she doesn't understand the concept.
KBROWN
Jacqueline Plavnicky
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1. I can relate to Hannah when she blurted out "It's not fair!" when she didn't mean to. I can relate to that because sometimes I am thinking something and then I say it out loud. One time, I was thinking about how stupid something was and said it out loud. That's similar because it slipped out when we didn't mean to.
2. Grandpa Will got upset that Hannah drew the numbers on her arm because the numbers reminded him of the horrible times back when he was a boy. He was upset because she thought it was cool and those were probably the most horrible times in his life. The numbers were to identify each person that was put in a concentration camp of some sort. He didn't want to remember it and didn't ever want Hannah to go through it either. He loves her and is mad at the thought that she drew them on her arm. She didn't realize what they meant.
1. I can relate to Hannah because she thinks her little brother Aaron is annoying. I can relate to this because I have a little sister who NEVER stops talknig and always follows me around. She also says he is like a baby because he still believes in things like the Easter Bunny and the story of the Prophet Elijah. My sister still believesin the Easter bunny, Santa, and the tooth fariy.
ReplyDelete2. grandpa Will got mad at Hannah because he had the numbers on his arm from a horrible thnig that he went through. Grandpa Will got mad because he went through the Holocaust and it is not something to be joked about. hannah didnt know that and when she wrote the numbers on her arm Grandpa Will thuoght it waslikeshe wanted to be in the Holocaustbecauseshe wasnted to be like Grandpa Will because he was in the Holocaust.
Rebecca Rancourt
Uno. I can relate to Hannah because when I have to go to a family members house for a holiday they always measure me. It is annoying when they say I have grown a few inches. It is also very boring to be there.
ReplyDeleteDos. I think Grandpa Will got upset when Hannah wrote the numbers on her arm because he didn't want her to go through living in a concentration camp. He problably saw family members or friends die so it annoyed him that she put those numbers on her arm
Jordan V
1- I can relate to Hannah because sometimes when your family repeats the same story you get sick and tired of it. Grandpa Will is always talking about how it was like in the Concentration Camps. And he keeps on repeating the same story over and over again. And after a while it really gets annoying to Hannah. Just like when my I go to my Grandma's house. She always asks we how is dance. And i always say "good" because there is nothing coming up soon. So it really gets annoying to me because she ask me the same question ALL of the time. That is how I can relate to Hannah.
ReplyDelete2- Grandpa Will got upset when Hannah wrote the numbers on her arm because Grandpa Will remembered all of the times in the Concentration Camps. It was a very difficult time for Grandpa Will. Grandpa Will would never want Hannah to go through what he went through. He really cares about Hannah and he wouldn't want anything happening to her.
Julianna Barker
{JuJu}
Thomas Scinto
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1. I can relate to Hannah saying "It's not fair" in the middle of the Seder. I can connect to this as sometimes I say things when I don't think I am. I understand Hannah's embarrassment when she said this aloud and everyone looked at her. This is how I can connect to Hannah speaking her thoughts aloud.
2. Grandpa Will got very angry when Hannah had written the numbers on her arm because it reminded him of the time he spent in a concentration camp. It also upset him because he probably thought his own granddaughter was taking the holocaust as a joke. He also probably had visions and recalled terrible things that had happened while in a concentration camp.
1. I can relate to Hannah because my name is Hannah. I can also relate to Hannah because sometime my grandpa talks about his life when he was a kid and I usually get bored of it like Hannah did.
ReplyDelete2. I think that Grandpa Will got upset that Hannah drew numbers on her arm because i think it reminded Grandpa Will when he got the tattoo and the pain of the concentration camps he was in.
Gaby Hirsch
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1. I can relate to Hannah because we are both jewish 12 year old girls and sometimes I don't think it's fair when it's passover AND easter, and when my friends get to eat candy, I get to eat really bland passover food. I understand how frustrated she got.
2. Grandpa Will got really mad at Hannah when she put the numbers on her arm. I think he got mad because he probably doesn't want Hannah to experience horrible things like the Holocaust and got upset that she tried to be like a person who was in the holocaust, and experienced dreadful things. He probably isn't proud of having those numbers on his arm, so he probably wanted to make sure Hannah wouldn't be proud of the numbers either.
Chris John
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1. I can relate to Hannah because we are both nearly the same age. We also relate because when she said, "Its not fair!" out loud at the Seder, and got embarassed about saying it. I sometimes say things I have thought about, but they "slipped" out of my mouth, just like Hannah in the story. I can also relate because my grandfather may repeat the same story over and over again, which gets boring just like Hannah's story.
2. Grandpa Will got really mad at Hannah when she put the numbers on her arm. This is beause it rewminded him oh all of the horrors that occured in the concentration camps. Grandpa Will didn't want Hannah to be a part of the pain that Grandpa had to go through. Grandpa didn't want Hannah to "relive" the horrors in the concentration and extermination camps.
Eliana Trevino
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1. I can relate to Hannah because we are almost the same age. We also can relate because my Grandpa repeats how it was during World war 2 and how he bombed Japan and I often find myself feeling the same way Hannah does when she is at Grandpa Will's.
2. Grandpa Will got mad at Hannah for writing numbers on her arm because it reminded him of all the horrors that he and many others had to go through. Grandpa Will was in a concentration camp and he had the number tattoo that the Nazi's had printed on each victim. Plus he did not want Hannah to "relive" the horrific life that he went through.
I can relate to Hannah because if my family was like that, I would not put up with it. I would get so annoyed about it that I wouldn't want to go to every holiday celebration either.
ReplyDeleteGrandpa Will got upset because it reminded him of what he had to go through in the concentration camps. Even though Hannah wanted to be like Grandpa Will, she made it seem like she was encouraging what happened.
-Zack Lee
Grampa Will got upset when Hannah because he was in the holoacaust and he didn't want to se e Hannah be treated like what was in the holoacaust.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to Hannah because when I just saw my family and see them on a holiday they will say how much I'v grown so I just walk away nice and slow
Brock Burtkovsky
1. I can relate to Hannah because my grandpa was in world war 2 and he would explain about the bombing in japan, and as he is explaining i can understand how hannah is feeling. I can slo relate to her because when she yelled, " It's not fair" at seder, she felt okward and eembarrased, when the words just slips out when you dont even mean to say it. That happens to me alot to and i get in trouble.
ReplyDelete2. Grandpa upset will got upset with hannah because of hannah writing numbers on her arm. It reminded grandpa will of all of the terros and bad memories he had to go through in World War 2 concentration camps. He also didnt want hannah to experience what he had to go thru.
Johnny Migliazza
The numbers on grandpa will's arm were from german concentration camps. Grandpa will did not want Hannah to have any resemblance to what had happened to him to happen to her; the tattoos being one of them. Grandpa will did not want Hannah to go thtrough what he had gone through. That being torture, pain, depression, death, gore, etc.
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Like hannah I have the annoying relatives who say,"Oh my gosh you've gotten so big" meanwhile the py saw me las month.
TYLER ZALENSKI
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I can relate to Hannah because she is getting tired of doing the same things over and over again and hearing the same story every year. Hanna is like this when she told her mother she doesn't want to go to passover and said it's getting boring. I am like this when I say ",every day is the same, wake up, take a shower, breakfast, go to school, learn, come home, do homework, eat dinner, dessert, bed".(true)
Question 2
Grandpa Will got upset, because when he saw the numbers he thought about the Holocaust and all the violence and gore that he went through. Also, he got upset at the memories and didn't want to think that Hannah went through it to.
1. I can relate to Hannah because i have a sister named Hannah and Hannah seems annoying and my sister is annoying. Also my grandpa used to make us listen to his long stories about his childhood and my parents would make me act like i actually cared about his story.
ReplyDelete2. Grandpa will got mad because he thought she was being disrespectful about the numbers and he also probably had a horrible memories during the time of the holocaust that he wishes he would never have to think of again.