We can realised that the book is written during the world
war two, because it describes the concentration camps
and how people where treated there. The historical
context of the book affect the main character, called
David, because as he had live all his life inside a
concentration camp, he was as an unexerience boy, that
did not know how to manage outisde of the camp and
how to relate with people.
Quote: "just as he was
climbing over the
searchlight would
suddentlt swing round
and catch him in its
beam, and they would
shoot."
Religion
During most of his life, David thought he was jew,
because he fought that that was the reason why
he was in the concentration camp,. But when he
went out of the camp he realised that he wasnt jew
because he didnt know anything about jews and
he start beliving in the god of the green pastures
and still waters.
Quote: "God of the green
pastures andthe still waters,
plase dont help me. i want to do
it by myself so that you will
lnow i have found somthing i can
do for you... i am David,
Amene".
Themes
Freedom
"Everything else was brushed away, the
camp, sell, its touch-- and now he was
David, His own master, free-- free as long
as he could remain so"
corageousness
"Being brave meant that though you might be
frightened you would face the grater danger if you
knew it was the right thing to do"
Love
"He had saved the woman life because he
liked her, in the way grown up people like
those they want to marry"
Concepts
Happiness
David didnt knew what happiness was, because he had
lived all his life inside a concentration camp, without
anyone who teahed him was happiness was, and
withouth living any happy moment. In owr opinion, every
human being have to live at least one moment of
happiness to find the sense of life, and we think that
hapiness is not only a part of our life, they are
different moments that make as us smile withouth even
realising
Smile
Smiling is very important, because as is said in the book,
when David smile for the first time he knew he was capable
of being happy, and he had feel that smoething new and
strange was happening inside and outisde his body,
something hhat he had never feell
Violence
We think that at that moment people prefer to use violence because,
they consider that the correct way of immposing their ideas was by
using their phisical skills istead of their intellectual one. whats more
they thought that the easiest way to survivng at that moment was by
using violence, and that it was the only way define to get rid of
problems. We think that violence is a bad method of resolving
problems, and that the best way of expresing your ideas is by
talikng, because it is less dangerous.
Mirror
when David saw him self for the first time in the mirror he
discovered a big part of his identity, knew he know who he
really was, and he can understood why eveyone look at him in
a strange way. He saw his dark eyes that represent the hard
and sad life in the concentration camp. we think that watching
in a mirror is a way of knowing who we really are, but is not always positive, because in many
cases it made as copare with other people and make us feel
bad and insecure ith our self,
Personal response
After reading the book, we learn that we have to by thankful with what we have,
because after knowing all the things david have to passed throgh during his life, we
realised that we have a very happy and safe life. Not only because we have to
oportunity to live in nice neiboughhoods, but becacuase we have a family that
support us and that would never leave us alone. Furthermore the book teach as
how simple thigs for us as a smile or a mirror could change someones life and
could help him or her to find his/her identity. To conclude, the book teach us thet
it doesnt matter how many bad experiences we have, we always can look foward
and continue our life with a smile.