I really like your moasic. I do think all of those words represented Elie very well.

I do think it takes pretty crazy people to start a genocide but I think one can happen in the United States if it happened other places. There are many people that don't like other people just because of their race and relgion. I think if power got into the wrong hands that there could easily be a genocide in the United States. I do understand you points and get what you are trying to say but I do think a genocide could happen here.

I did this mosaic on Elie's dad. He was suffering trying to keep up with everyone else and do his job. he was hurt and very tired and couldn't keep up with everyone anymore. Elie's dad was older and couldn't do the work that the Nazis wanted.

The United States does not really like new people coming to the this country. They always think that the Arabic people are going to bomb places, when they come here. The United States does like mexicans coming to this country. So i'm sure that there could be a Holocaust here today. There was a Holocaust of the Native Americans when Europeans first came here, so i'm sure it could happen again. If there was a large majority of people that were from a different country i'm sure that the government would 'get rid of them'. This country is very sensitive when it comes to 911. If something like that happened again with people in our country, the government would kill them; which could lead to a Holocaust.

To Chardonnay Bennett,

I also read about the genocide in Rwanda.They didn't earn anything by being violent. Something bad might happen to a country and in return they go to war, to get power or revenge.  I agree because most of the time it does backfire.

To Emily,

It is very imaginable  trying to think of how one human being could do that to another; I thought the same exact thing. I also feel like I know Elie a lot more. I think that night will give me a better look at the Holocaust. I also don't think that it's possible to feel what the people in the Holocaust felt. I would also love to talk to Elie.

To Londyn,

I feel the same way. I have a rough patches in my life but not like Elie. I agree that the whole thing was very disturbing. The hair, suitcases, shoes, and baby clothes were probably the most disturbing. The Nazis did want to take everything away from them. I am also very excited to read Night. I want to know how he felt and how he lived through it.

         This is the map for the trail of tears, the the long journey the Native Americans had to take to move across the Mississippi to their new land.

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1440&bih=805&tbm=isch&tbnid=OXcSh91Xsd5GeM:&imgrefurl=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/mo-jerometears.html&docid=Qjd-m5WiuAQQCM&imgurl=http://www.legendsofamerica.com/photos-missouri/TrailofTearsMap.gif&w=480&h=330&ei=ReeTUOH7Kc2WyAG3yoDADg&zoom=1&iact=hc&dur=36&sig=107120476054965222076&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=211&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0,i:90&tx=150&ty=51&vpx=393&vpy=313&hovh=186&hovw=271




            This picture shows all of the tribes. This picture represents how all of these tribes were killed or sent into one area to live.

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1440&bih=805&tbm=isch&tbnid=sct7UrxbeK8PbM:&imgrefurl=http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2007/11/half-us-named-after-indians.html&docid=4kxfkR5SZjnEtM&imgurl=http://www.bluecorncomics.com/pics/namap.jpg&w=500&h=330&ei=IuuTUOafGYfFyAGc_YGADw&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=267&sig=107120476054965222076&page=1&tbnh=134&tbnw=201&start=0&ndsp=25&ved=1t:429,r:9,s:0,i:96&tx=142&ty=60



 This picture is the reservations they live on. There were a lot of tibes and they had lots of land but now they hardly have anything.
http://simontoncr0607.wikispaces.com/Native+American+Reservation

                This is Christopher Columbus, he sailed to America and claimed it his, even though there were already people living there. He decided he did not wan those people on "his" new land so he decided to get rid of them.
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1440&bih=805&tbm=isch&tbnid=oyA28hr7MlO8eM:&imgrefurl=http://www.interestingtopics.net/christopher-columbus-id-262&docid=cGRFHBaFkcGzPM&imgurl=http://interestingtopics.net/storage/b3b01f76ba786897aebcff4b1920b683.jpg&w=400&h=300&ei=c-2TUNvEA-3iyAGU8YHYDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=186&vpy=462&dur=64&hovh=194&hovw=259&tx=175&ty=139&sig=107120476054965222076&page=1&tbnh=142&tbnw=194&start=0&ndsp=32&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0,i:180

               This is Andrew Jackson, he is the one that made the famous Trail of Tears in the 1800s.
http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sig=107120476054965222076&biw=1440&bih=805&tbm=isch&tbnid=jou0PG4ApBHxpM:&imgrefurl=http://ncpedia.org/biography/jackson-andrew&docid=mllJwBrq2P4QjM&imgurl=http://ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/jackson-senate.png&w=200&h=242&ei=sfKTUID6LaTBygG624CgDQ&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=212&page=1&tbnh=134&tbnw=117&start=0&ndsp=35&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:141&tx=44&ty=75
             This picture is battle of little bighorn. In this battle the English wanted to take over while Native Americans were trying to stop it.


 This is the battle of fallen timbers where many settlers and Native Americans died.


   This picture shows how the settlers were taking all of the Native American's resources.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Pictures+of+th+ebattle+of+1812&hl=en&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=9PGTUOCLAoXxyAGu04CwCw&ved=0CB8QsAQ&biw=1440&bih=805#q=native+American+pictures+for+genocide&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSEgmZX3sdVBLS4CFUPt6gj_1MB_1A&iact=hc&vpx=702&vpy=508&dur=24&hovh=183&hovw=276&tx=121&ty=267&sig=107120476054965222076&ei=NfKTUPTFOYWGyQGi3oDwAw&page=2&tbnh=154&tbnw=250&ved=1t:2220,r:31,s:20&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=fab77c113cafac38&bpcl=37189454&biw=1440&bih=805

 This picture shows that those men didn't get this land by asking for it. They got this land by killing other men, women, and children that already lived here. Those men should be on those rocks, not the ones that are there now.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Pictures+of+the+Native+American+Genocide&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=pictures+of+the+native+american+genocide&sc=0-33&sp=-1&sk=

 This is Thomas Jefferson; he created the Indian Removal Act. Which then sent the Native Americans on a long journey where most of them died.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=thomas+jefferson+and+the+native+americans&qpvt=thomas+jefferson+and+the+native+americans&FORM=IGRE

Between April and June, a span of about 100 days, 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed. It all started with the killing of their President, who's plane was shot down. It was said that the Hutus were trying to eliminate the Tutsis population. The Tutsis led a military campaign to control the country but by then about 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed. Two million Hutus fled to Zaire were they joined forces with the Zairean people to attack local Tutsis; most of the Hutus were responsible for the massacre. After making a peace deal Kinshasa, Rwanda was accused of training rebel troops in DR Congo which they denied. Now the country is trying to rebuild their economy.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14093238


This article was very shocking because the killing of 800,000 people in 100 days is crazy. This all pretty much started because of the killing of the Rwanda president. I think it was very rude for the United States and other places not to aid them in their time of need. 800,000 people dying in war is too many. Also what I thought was interesting was that many Genocides happened along time ago but this one happened now and just ended with a peace deal this year.

I learned that during the Holocaust like 5 million Jews were killed and like 17 million people were killed. The Germans didn't like Catholics, Hungarians, and especially Jews. They forced people to leave their home thinking they were just helping them but actually just sending them to concentration camps where they were immediately killed or sent to work camps. One of the most efficient ways they killed people was putting them into gas chambers, but told them they were going to take a shower, then they were suffocated. What really struck me the most was when they showed the baby stuff. Right when the babies arrived they were sent to die. What I thought was most powerful was when Elie said they weren't shocked by death anymore it was all around them. They didn't have to live with death, they lived in death. I didn't really learn anything I didn't already know. I would like to learn how Elie's trip went to the concentration camp and how he felt while he was coming, then once he got there. I know that the book is probably going to be very sad.

I do like to read just not a lot. I only read if the book is really good, other wise I get bored. I like to read suspense stories. One of my favorite books is The Running Dream and 13 Reasons Why. I don't like a lot of books one of the recent books I read that I didn't like was Beastly. I am not currently reading a book now but the last book I read was The Running Dream. The Running Dream was a really good book. The Running Dream is about a girl that loves to run, her favorite sport is track. She is on her way to a meet with her team, when the bus crashes and she loses her leg. Losing your leg is hard for a regular person but she loves to run, that is all she does. So she goes through a hard time thinking she will never be able to run again but her teammates raise enough money for her to get a fake running leg. While she is having problems with her leg she meets a girl that gives her an idea. This girl is really smart but can't walk. So she has a running dream where she is going to run 10 miles pushing the girl in the wheel chair the whole way.

The book Unwind has characteristics of a dystopian society like it has a backstory. In Unwind they have a war against reproductive rights like abortion. At the end they came up with a solution, Unwinding.

 
For my Mosaic I did Connor. Connnor is sweet and tough. He gets angry a lot but all he wants to do is protect Risa. When she is in trouble he helps so he is kind.

I was trying to get more of my age or older to like my video. The point of my video was to try to make other people read Unwind.  I was trying to get more of a action angle. In my video I was talking about the main parts that stand out to me and that I thought would make people be interested in reading the book. The music was hard for me to find. I couldn't find of good song that went with the book. There are so many songs it was hard to choose from. I chose the song I did because I thought it was the best one I could find. The song is kind of slow then gets faster it is called I still believe. I think this song went with the book because Risa and Connor still believed that they might make it if they tried.

Three kids are sent to get Unwound, Connor, Risa, and Lev. Connor and Risa start out hating each other but soon get closer. Lev runs away from Connor and Risa and tries to tell someone that they need to be unwound. They run away and find a whole camp for Unwinds.  Lev runs into some bad kids that tell him things that may get him in some trouble.This book keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time.

Hey, E-jay I just started reading more this year. I like reading different kinds of books too. I do think that one of the main characters with be unwound just to make more suspenseful and the rest will make it to 18. To make it more interesting I think someone needs to get unwound because like you said not every book should have a happy ending. In reality there are not that many happy endings if any at all. I think the book is good so far. I get what you are saying why you don't agree I just think it's really different compared to nows society but I get it's in the future and the society is really twisted like how the parents get to choose to have their kids unwound.

This song is called  Sonata in C# Minor Op 27 No 2 - Moonlight - Adagio sostenuto (1st mov) by Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata. I think this song goes with Unwind because it's kind of a sad song. This song is slow then speeds up like the book. The faster music reminds me of when Connor, Risa, and Lev run away. The slow part reminds me of how they are in the woods and hoping no one will find them. At the end of the song it is slow and calmer. The book, where I am at, is where they found the lady in the antique shop and our staying there. It is calming for them now.

 In the woods is where Connor, Risa, and Lev hide.


 This is supposed to be the cop, Officer J.T Nelson that chases them into the woods and gets shot.

 This is supposed to be the Harvest Camp where they get unwound.


 This represents Risa because she loves to play the piano.

 This picture just reminds me of Unwinding because I don't really want to use a real body part so this goes with it too. Also the cover has a handprint on it too.
 This picture is when they are in those small boxes and shipped to the Graveyard.
 This is supposed to be the warehouse where the ice cream truck takes the unwinds.
 This is a stork that which in Uniwnd means that when you have a baby you can leave it on someones door step "storking".
This represents Lev because he is a thithe and is born to be Unwound.

I don't read a lot so in order for me to read it has to be a very good book. The books I kind of like to read are like scary books or suspense books. The book I chose was Unwind. I chose unwind because it is a little scary because they are technically killing the kids so the suspense is them trying to escape. I think the main character Connor will be fine. I think he will meet run aways that were supposed to be unwound. I also think that he will save other kids that are supposed to be unwound. The think the book Unwind is a dystopian because it is like a different world like in the future it is totally different and the government makes crazy decisions.