Night

In my book, "Night" written by Elie Wiesel, we are shown everything happening. Elie explains what he sees and hears. What he feels and fears. Elie is a teen when the Holocaust started to happen. First, he started to get moved into a ghetto, time after he started to go to a camp. The Nazis started taking over the Jews. Elie gets separated from his family. He says he's older then he really is. Elie sees how the Nazis around him treat his people. They spit on them, torture them, beat them, they do everything they possibly can in order to make the Jews feel like nothing. Elite loses everything. But will hope save him from this horrific thing?

This book has a very deep theme. Elie lives terrible inhumane things. It teaches you that evil can be beautiful and tricky. When Germany was in total devastation Hitler gave them fake hope. People were so desperate they needed to hear hope. Hitler made them believe the Jews were guilty for everything. Evil things were done but people thought it was for justice. 

The Pregnancy Project

So far, I have read many inspirational books. Many have had strong messages, like: Despite all the sadness, there will always be a good thing that come with it. In the book, "The Pregnancy Project", we meet Gaby Rodriguez. Yes, the title might have you thinking, "The Pregnancy Project? What is this book about a girl experimenting and magically getting pregnant?" well it's not. Gaby has always had a tough life, she lives in a poor city, she has a lot of nieces and nephews, and  her mother had a lot of money issues. Gaby takes us through her mother life. Her mother was an immigrant living in California. Her mother had her first child at fourteen. After that, she had about six more children. The boy who pregnant her was the one she married and stayed with for a long time. He was the father of her current 7 kids, but Gaby's mother felt something was different. She was never truly in love with the father of her children, she actually wished he didn't stay by her side, but things started to change. She would always listen to him. She wouldn't dare to disobey him, but one day she did and that was the day they were over. She  found out he was cheating. They both raced to get the divorce papers to the court. Sadly, he won. Besides divorcing her, he took her children away. Ever since, she tried anything and everything to get her children back. Gaby's mother realized that the only way to get her children back is if she worked for it. She had to leave to another state in search of a job. Being illegal made it hard for her to find a job, but she didn't give up. Her mother was getting pushed around by bad luck, luckily, she was strong enough to get through it. Will Gaby's mom be strong enough to resist all the pain and anger? Or will she give up on her children? Gaby's mother reminds me of mine. My mom has been pushed around all her life. I'm proud to say she is my mother because despite all of the tough things throw at her, she's strong.

This story literally just began and it already has many things going on! Starting off with Juana's, (Gaby's mother) ex-husband taking away her children. She found him cheating so she went to turn in divorce papers, sadly, Juana's husband beat her and besides that he got custody of the children. Right now the big question is, Will Juana get her children back? She's doing all she can to get them back by her side. She left the state of California in search of a job to prove she can take care of her children. She keeps getting held back because of things that happen like her friend dying on their way to Montana. She has to fight against everything. And she will. 

The Pregnancy Project #2

I finished my book, "The Pregnancy Project" and honestly.. It is really amazing. If you read the book you find out what happened to Juana and her children. Anyway, reading further into the book really changed my perspective on everything. Gaby came from a family of teen parents. All her siblings became teen parents, because of that people determined that Gaby was "destined" to become a teen parent. The things that's disturbing is that SHE didn't say that, OTHERS did. Her sibling expected her to take care of their children since Gaby's mom was always working. Since then, she knew she didn't want kids young. She's always been the best student she can be. She's tried her best to get those stereotypes out of people minds. For a senior project she wanted to make people take a life lesson from it. At first, she didn't know what to do.. but they she had a brilliant idea; fake a pregnancy. She immediately talked to her principal, mother, and boyfriend about the project. They all thought he was out of her mind, but she knew it would leave an impact. First, she started by adding a few layers of clothes, then her mother made a fake belly. Everything seemed easy at first until people started saying things about her. People were looking at her like a strange creature. The pressure started getting to her. Does she give up? Why do these people keep looking at her strangely and believing that what they said was true? Find out more by reading the book. Trust me, it really is amazing. 

Gaby encounters many obstacles: faking the baby bump, the fake stomach breaking, people always talking bad about her. One of the things she always tries to figure out is; Why do people doubt my abilities because of my background? She was always a great student, a humble person, a hardworking girl, but people around her already determined her life for her. They said that she would become a teen mother. She didn't understand why they thought that. She had always worked towards what she wanted. She was going towards a good future. Why did these people still think she would fail? She didn't want to be like the rest of her family. She wanted to be successful. Sadly, people never like to see beyond what's on the outside, they like to think that they're right all the time. That is just the sad truth. 

Holocaust

The holocaust was something terrifying. Imagine seeing everyone go "missing" just because they are a certain race. This was a dark time for everyone except the Nazis, which were the main cause for this whole nightmare. There were a few warm hearted people who gave the people hope like, Oskar Schindler. He started working with the Nazis for money, but one day he was something horrible happen. He saw the Jewish being killed, and besides that they were being killed for everyone and anyone to see, including children. That made him change completely of perspective. He started using his money and "ways" to get the Nazi's to let him have Jews work for him. When they tried to take them away Schindler used all the money he could in order to bribe the Nazis. He saved 11,000 people. Despite all the ways people could've stood up, many didn't. One of the many reasons for becoming a bystander was because Nazis were powerful. They had weapons with them all the time. If they found out you were helping in anyway, they would kill you. If they didn't kill you they would torture you. People stood up to the Nazis because they knew this was inhumane, it wasn't right! If I were in this situation I would've tried to help but if I was putting my family in danger I wouldn't, not because I didn't care but because my family consists of a toddler and my parents. If I was living alone with a good home I would've tried everything to at least hide two or three. Some is better then none.