ESl 5 Students,
In your ELA Regents exam next year, you are required to write an essay in which you discuss two works of literature you have read.
You need to interpret the books from a particular perspective of a statement that is provided as a Critical Lens. The critical lens is usually an insigtful or thoughtful quote.
Your interpretation of the quote and response to it become the thesis statement for your essay.
PART 1:Today we are going to work on interpreting a quote or Critical Lens.
Read this quote and answer the 2 questions below:
Edward Gibbon
- What do your think this quote means?
- How does this quote relate to the book that you read about the Holocaust?
“Fanaticism” means people supper enthrall in something that may makes people crazy or make some terrible mistakes. “obliterates” means to erase, according to this quote that means to erase humanity, if human being live without humanity, people will like mad animal, they do anything to reach their goal. I think this quote tries to tell us, when people supper crazy on a purpose they will do anything to turn that to true, that is doesn’t matter for them what effect will come after that. According to the Mouse, this quote is the shadow of the book. In the book, the Nazis thought the Jewish people were the inferior and nasty race and they were the superior race in the world. Jewish people treated badly by the Nazis, and they had to stay in a place to live. As the time pass over, the Nazis became more violent, they grabbed them to the prison or labour camp. After that, they started to make massacre within the Jewish community and the concentration camp. That was supper crazy and unhuman. This quote reflects the main theme of the book Mouse.
ReplyDeleteBy Julio Flores
ReplyDeleteThis quote relates to the Holocaust because during the Holocaust many people were fanatics of the Nazi party, therefore people just follow their rules and they completely forgot the evil things that they were doing to Jewish people. As the quote says, fanaticism destroys people feelings. People just followed a leader’s ideas forgetting their feeling for people.