The book I’m reading is called, The Boy Who Dared. It’s about a boy named Helmuth who lives in Germany. Right now he is in one of his flash backs, about how Hitler came into power and how the war started. These are two of my inferences that I think are very possible ideas that could happen in the upcoming text.
My first inference is, Helmuth will become a German soldier and regret it. There were multiple instances where he was admired by Nazi soldiers, which made him want to be like them and fight for the fatherland. Helmuth is young when this is happening. One day a storm trooper talks to him and this is what the narrator says, “Someday he will fight for the fatherland.”(pg.16) This is a hint that later in the book he will somehow serve Hitler. This is one of a couple examples that lead you to the idea of Helmuth becoming a soldier. One of my questions is, why does he favor Hitler so much? What leads Helmuth to believe so much in Hitler at such a young age, besides him and his family always struggling for money?
My second inference is that Helmuth will start to reject Jews and his friends to become a soldier. Something that might instill the thought in Helmuth that Jews are bad is the fact that, his school shunned a Jewish kid and he went along with it. I think this quote really supports this; “We must defend ourselves against Jews and their worldwide plot to take over Germany.”(pg.29) Also all around him, shops owned and run by Jews were being closed with signs posted by soldiers saying that, “Germans! Do not buy from Jews! World Jewry is out to destroy us!”(pg.31)and this is all because Hitler believes that Christianity is a basic principal and if you’re not Christian you shouldn’t be alive. These things could all make Helmuth reject Jews. The questions I have about this is, how important are Jews to Helmuth? Does he have Jewish friends? These are two questions that make me think about Helmuth and were his decisions will do to him.
These I’m interested to find out if these inferences come true in the text. These ideas make me think. There both plausible because there are little ideas in the text that could lead to these ideas. I wonder if they will come true.
Overall, excellent thoughts, Sara. You've developed interesting inferences and asked very good questions. You're making excellent progress!
ReplyDelete4.5/5 points. You have a subject-verb agreement error in this sentence, "The questions I have about this is..." The word "is" should be "are" because your subject is plural.