The boy who dared summary/reading strategies

After finishing up this book, I realized that this whole book wrapped up very good. Although it may be non-fiction, this book left you thinking. Continuing my latest summary, Helmuth and his two friends, along with his followers, get arrested by the gestapo. They are each charged with treason and each given the years that corresponded to their crimes they committed. After Helmuth spent over a year, he was killed in guillotine.
A reading strategy that I use often is the character analysis. By practicing this strategy, it helps me understand more and more about the main character and the side characters and how they feel about what is going on throughout the book. It also helps me make predictions about the book and how I feel the character would act in such situation. I like using this strategy when I read especially when reading "The boy who dared" because it really made me feel like I was in Helmuth shoe's and gave me a taste of what he was going through and the battles he had to face. Also let me have predictions on what I would think Helmuth would do in future situations.

The Boy Who Dared summary/signpost

The boy who dared starts off with him in a cell somewhere where he has flashbacks to when Hitler rose to power. It shows how Helmuth likes and enjoys practicing his religion but soon fades when he hear Hitler's convincing speeches and persuasive words to save the fatherland. Soon after he's out of middle school, he is forced to join the Hitler youth. Helmuth does enjoy the activities the youth does but still hate the idea and grows on hating Hitler even more. So much that he has had enough. He and 2 of his friends made small information pamphlets about the war going on, and what Hitler's real plan is. Inspired by the radio station Verboten, he buts these pamphlets all over town. Everything was going good until he gets caught by a secret agency to end any source or rebellion towards Nazism.

While reading this book, I came across many A-ha moments through out the book. When Helmuth was young around middle school, it shows how he really did like what Hitler had to say and what his idea was. When the A-ha moment came to place, and Helmuth realized and found out what Hitler's real plan was and real turned his mentality on Hitler and what he though of him completely changed. I realized that this was one of many Helmuth's A-ha moments because through out the book he explains that now he realizes what he has planned, and Helmuth actually does something about it. Which really leads me to the question of why he would risk his life and stand up for the jews and what injustice was happening. It really puzzles me because being a kid, with friends and people who love him, why would he risk his good life that he has to a problem that doesn't have anything to do with him, let alone affect him?

Holocaust blog post

I believe that people were bystanders because they kind of grew into it. Some of the part is maybe because it wasn't their problem and it didn't affect them. It is pretty easy understand that if it isn't your problem, then you shouldn't put much thought into it. Even if they didn't want to make a change, they couldn't because they were probably scared to or didn't want anyone to think something else about them. I also believe that those who did stand up was because they were fed up with the situation and didn't really care about what other people thought about them. Maybe they were inspired to do such thing because they saw someone else do it. I really don't know what I would do in a situation like this because I wouldn't think much of it if it wasn't affecting me, but if it was, I would try and do something IF I wasn't to scared to do so in the first place. Because some those who were affected by the Holocaust were scared for their lives because anything you would say that would sound disrespectful, the Nazi's wouldn't hesitate to kill a Jew.