I am david

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Mind Map on I am david, created by Mora MARANESI on 05/04/2020.
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Mind Map by Mora MARANESI, updated more than 1 year ago
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I am david
  1. Historical context
    1. 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.
      1. Quote: "just as he was climbing over the searchlight would suddentlt swing round and catch him in its beam, and they would shoot."
    2. Religion
      1. 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.
        1. 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".
      2. Themes
        1. Freedom
          1. "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"
          2. corageousness
            1. "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"
            2. Love
              1. "He had saved the woman life because he liked her, in the way grown up people like those they want to marry"
            3. Concepts
              1. Happiness
                1. 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
                2. Smile
                  1. 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
                  2. Violence
                    1. 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.
                    2. Mirror
                      1. 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,
                    3. Personal response
                      1. 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.
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