Graceling summary/theme

This book starts off with Katsa trying to sneak into a dungeon. She is trying to get past guards but she eventually just knocks them out with her power. In this book only the lucky are born with a grace (power). Katsa's grace is to kill. With one simple touch, she has the ability to kill someone. For example, later on in the book, she explains how this one man tried to touch her, and with one punch to the face she shoved his nose to his brain and accidentally killed him. She is trying to save a man named prince tealiff from lienid. She is trying to save him because he had been kidnapped and she was on orders to help him escape. She then agrees to go with prince po to find out who and what actually happened that made them want to kidnap him.

Since I barely started off this book, I am going to predict on what the theme would be about the book. In the book people have many different powers some can be very useful and some can be useless. I am starting to get the picture of what the theme could be because throughtout the book I kept noticing that new people and new graves kept on popping up, and although people didn't believe that the person would be important, they turned out to be in the end. I would say that the theme would be not to judge based on what you see or hear about a person.

Nazi Hunters Summary/reading strategies

Continuing from my previous summary blog I talked about the one of two stories that go on in the book. In my previous summary, was the story of how the jewish people saw Eichmann and what he did and how he was a horrible and a cowardly man. The second part of the other side was when a brave young woman by the name of Sylvia Hermann had a boyfriend by the Nick Eichmann. A son of notorious and wanted man. Later on Nick started to boast on how his father should of finish the job and by that he meant that his father should of finished off the whole jewish race like he planned to. Since Sylvia was half jewish because of her father that they kept secret because there was still discrimination in Argentina, they wrote to a german prosecutor and then the whole pursue of Eichmann began.

Strategies I use during the book to get a clearer picture while reading is trying to make prediction in what is going to happened later on in the book but since this book is pretty predicable, I started reading articles on the capture of Eichmann just to get a little bit more background knowledge on Eichmann. This helped me throughout the story because it helped me understand why these teams were so determined to capture and bring Eichmann to justice. It made more sense to me why they were so determined on catching this man because it explain in the book why they wanted to catch Eichmann. Eichmann was a high ranking german officer that was responsible from the deaths the jewish race and other races too. Lastly, I occasionally write down words that I am not sure on what they mean because I tend to get lost in what the author is trying to explain when I don't even know some of the words definitions. Knowing the definitions of the words that I don't know help me because it helps me understand the point the author is trying to get across.

Nazi Hunters Summary/conflict

Continuing from my previous summary, the Israel team that is trying to capture Eichmann, it so close they can taste the glory of catching him. There has been rumors on that Eichmann had escaped to Argentina and the team is trying to figure out weather the old man living in a house that they suspect is Eichmann, or just a random old man. Later throughout the book it talks about how Eichmann gained trust from the Jewish while he was just playing with them. Making the Jews look like fools for giving him money and thinking that they can buy their way out of the Ghetto. Eichmann's was effective and was put into work. His first step was to strip the Jewish race of all their belongings and have them wear yellow stars. Secondly he planned on have them be moved to a much smaller and tighter space (ghetto). I last step was to put them in cattle trains and send them to death camps. While they were still in the ghettos, Eichmann would occasionally go the ghetto and explain that they would be moved to a much better place where the wives would stay home and the men would work while the kids went to school. Clearly this was a huge lie and the only mistake the jews made was trusting in this man.
The conflict in this book is clearly shown through out the book. The conflict in this book is in WW2 and how the German army and people despised and discriminated the Jewish race. This was an ongoing battle and effected many jewish lives. I know this because in the book it explains how the Germans plans was only to get rid of the entire jewish population. By first belittling them and bullying them to the point where many felt unwanted and was very hard to live. Although many jewish people stayed strong and dealt with it but no doubt that it did effect them greatly throughout their lives.

Nazi Hunters Summary/Reflection

My book Nazi Hunters take place in 1960. It starts off with a group of Israeli spies that are trying to capture a Nazi fugitive by the name of Adolf Eichmann. Adolf Eichmann was the head of the Final Solution and responsible to the death of millions of jewish men, women, and children. There has been clues and rumors that Eichmann has been living in a small apartment in Argentina. The team goes to investigate and their main objective to capture Eichmann and bring him back to Israel for his trial. It has two separate stories that they are telling. One on how Eichmann made it out of Germany and fled to Argentina with his family and is in hiding. The other barely started and it explains how they plan on getting Eichmann and what they plan after they capture him.
Overall this book did have a dry beginning in which I mean that it was a bit boring because it kinda sounded like a documentary but gets more interesting as it goes on because it explains how they plan on getting Eichmann and gets you pulled in because you want to know how it ends up. I also felt very angry on how Eichmann fled like a coward after being responsible for many deaths and not feel the need to just take his punishment like a man.