Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Bias and Balance

My book is very bias against Nazi party because they are at war against the Nazi party at this time. The book is bias against the Germans because the author is American and believes in American ways and supports his own country. He is bias against the Germans because throughout the whole book he disagrees with the Nazi parties way of doing things and is just mortified by the way they are treating innocent civilians also known as the Jewish people. He is telling about a platoons adventures through the captains words. A great example of him being bias is when the platoon of American soldiers arrives at the German concentration camp called Dachau which is a very deadly camp, when they arrive they are just in shock and disbelief in what there eyes are seeing. They just don't understand how someone can have so much anger at a group of people, it just doesn't seem real.

Thursday, February 4, 2016

Context of The Liberator

The Liberator is about one mans journey through World War two and what he has to deal with to survive. The book is about a man named Felix Sparks who is the main character also known as the The Liberator. Alex and his battalion saw many forms of hell while in battle he lost many men and saw lots of overall death. One of the most profound things he came across was the concentration camp called Dachau he describes this as the literal definition of hell. Alex and his battalion are part of the 7th armies 45th division also known as the thunderbirds. Sparks was raised in Arizona during the depressions years and was drafted into the military following Pearl Harbor attack, when he left to fight he left behind his pregnant wife. While fighting in Sicily he quickly discovered he liked to be in the action and wanted to fight at the front line with his men. Sparks was ordered to liberate Dachau and when he arrived there he found boxcars filled with corpses and it pushed his men to there limit and they started killing the SS gaurds they had prisoner, sparks quickly put an into that though.

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I chose my book because it seemed very interesting and it is discussing a topic that really intrigues me. My book is called The Liberator and the author of it is Alex Kershaw. It is about the adventures and activities of World War 2. It is about the liberation of Germany, I have always been interested in war stories and movies. They seem to draw me in and keep me reading and that is a struggle for me. I am not the type of kid to just go and read because I find myself getting bored or distracted. The book tells about one mans journey through World War 2 and what challenges he had to overcome throughout the war. Over the years I have found myself being interested in real stories that I can learn from and feel like I am actually there living in the experience they are talking about. I really think this book will be very good and so far early in the story it has been good.