Between Shades Of Gray Book Report

While both the 2012, Darkroom: a memoir in black and white written by Lila Quintero Weaver and the 1997, All over but the Shoutin ' written by Rick Bragg explore the power of the south, both well written books chronicle their respective experiences in a similar time and setting in history. Although the book Darkroom: a memoir in black and white faces more experiences with being a different race in a segregated southern community, and the book All over but the Shoutin ' focuses more around a poor white family of the south who are out casted from the community for humanity differences which shows significant differences between both the memoirs '. Both the Darkroom: a memoir in black and white and All over but the Shoutin ' have focus points around the years of 1960 's to the 1980 's, During these years where there were times of segregation, slavery, and Civil Rights movements for all equality in the south.

As I read the book I felt more and more sorry for Jurgis and his family. The struggles and hardships that they went though as well as what other immigrants where going through at the time. I feel that people during this time where treated very unfairly and when it came to the meat packing companies I think that the cows pigs had a better life. This is because the animals where fed every day no matter what because the people that wanted to sell them needed for them to look like that had a lot of meat on them not just skin and bone. The pay that the people working in these plants made did not always pay for the rent of their one rat infested room, let alone to put food on the table.

The event “Shades of Shackles” presented by Dorothy Roberts is centered on the legislation surrounding reproductive justice and how it is affecting black women. This event referred to how black women’s bodies has been devalued and seen only as property and how this is being used to put them in prison. This specific situation also ties in the radicalized assumption of criminality along with gender politics encompassing pregnancy and abortion. This made me think back to the idea of the prison industrial complex where the imprisonment of a group is viewed as the solution to a problem instead of looking at the economic, social, and political hardships facing a people. The event further explained how in some prisons there has been “state sterilization”

In Shades of Difference by Nancy Krieger, there are several questions that are being analyzed. Nancy uses articles from the 1800s to help her get a better understanding of the questions and ideas she has. The one question that is being analyzed is “ are blacks innately inferior to whites and therefore fit only to be slaves?” (LaVeist, 2002, p. 11) Nancy analyzes this question and believes that the same science was not used and the sciences differed in essence and application. The whole chapter revolved around slavery and whether it is inferior or not. She studied scientific racism, slavery, statistics, and black diseases; she also studied the first generation of black doctors, and the rise and fall of an antiracist science. Nancy concluded

****"Someone Named Eva" - Written from Eva's point of view, not all event's below are from the actual book**** Late Fall of 1943 Dear Momma, Today I saw the fence. Elsbeth and I were having a picnic in the woods, when I heard the a voice other than hers. It was someone singing a beautiful Czech song, it was refreshing to hear the voice of my past. I began to run, run past Elsbeth, running to the precious voice I longed to be yours.

“I looked back to the hole. What if we were digging our own grave?” (128). Lina, the main character of the book, says when forced to dig a hole with three other women. This is just one example of what Lina, her family, and millions of others have to endure while at labor camps. Ruta Sepetys novel, “Between Shades of Gray” shares the story of one family who was arrested and brought to a labor camp. Lina and Jonas were arrested, along with their mother by the Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD). They were separated from their father, taken to the Altai Labor Camp, and forced to work for little food and water. Throughout the story, Ruta Sepetys shows just how much a person can change and learn in one year. In the novel, Lina starts out as a naive girl but becomes a resourceful and intelligent young lady.

As soon as they arrived at the labor camps most were malnourished and were at their weakest breaking point. Many cracked, but it was people like Lina, her mother, her brother, and Mrs. Rimas who were able to find the strength to work without giving their dignity or fear to the Soviet Union. It was then when the leader of the labor camp woke everyone up in the middle of the night saying they had a “choice” wether or not to sign a document agreeing for them to join the collective farm, pay a war tax of two hundred rubles per person, and agree that they were criminals and their sentence should be twenty-five years hard labor where they need to stick up for their justice. People like the Vilkas and Mrs. Rimas refused to sign the documents although it would me that the Soviets would work and push them harder; they wanted to stand up for their natural rights. Soon after, some including the Vilkas and Mrs. Rimas were sent to Siberia in the middle of nowhere where the arctic winter, a time where half the year is spent in darkness, takes place. Individuals like Lina had/needed the audacity to sneak out of their mud huts and find items to use for warmth and food. As soon as Lina’s mother died, Lina was on the brink of giving up. Her father had been shot, her mother was now dead, she had to leave Andrius, and her brother was sick, but through her drawings

The novel I’m reading is called Between Shades of Grey written by Ruta Sepetys who grandparent was arrested by the NKVD. The novel switch from a third person view to a first person being told by Lina, a 15 year old artist. The novel take place in labor camps where Lina and her family who are fighting for their lives each day looking for food and water. One of the conflict is that Lina and her family is being overwork by the NKVD having no hope for survival. The author hook me by the quick paste of story development , and the fact the novel is about a work camp.

How did the events in the Novel change the course of history? How would things be different today if the events didn’t happen?

In the later 1930s, Ludviga (Nina) Pukas found a job in a town then called Proskurov as a maid with a mother, Frima Sternik, and her two children, ages four and one. She formed such a bond with a family that even after she started her own family, she continued to stay with and work for them. She lived with the family for a few years before the bulk of the war began. Then, on July 7, 1941, the Sternik’s had their house and all their possessions burned down to the ground by Germans (King).

In 1944 a ghetto was built the next street over from were Irene Csillag lived. She had to go live in the ghetto with her family. Then they were deported and had to march until they were put on cattle cars. From there she went to Auschwitz-Birkenau and her, her mother and sister were sent to the right side. This meant they would work. Their heads were shaved and they were tattooed. They did jobs like cleaning toilets and working in kitchens. They were moved from camp to camp through out their time in the Holocaust. Then they were put on a boat by the Nazis and they thought they were all going to be thrown off. When they approached land they jumped off and the SS officers started to disappear. The British came and liberated the people that had

Based on the two feature films, Katyn and Ida, plus the newspaper articles, one would assess the legacies and memory of Nazism and Stalinism as heart breaking, cruel, and hopeless. In both films, the Katyn list and Ida’s venture into finding her real identity showcased the life of the people at that time. No one would want to hear their family members’ name to be on the list as it serves as a signal that there would be a potential chance that they are still alive. For example, Anna in the film would wait for her husband’s return someday. Although he did not return, but Anna’s hope was high. Jerzy who gave a shirt to Anna’s husband return while informing her that her husband was killed. Jerzy later committed suicide due to the lies that he was

The fact that the slaves were treated as less than animals is something that produces these kinds of stories difficult to read. I was looking to be more affected by the pain and violence that I knew slaves experienced at the hands of their masters. Nevertheless, I found myself more affected by the psychological pain that they had to endure. I read a poem by Dwayne Morgan entitled “The Academy Awards” stating “And you don’t know the psychological and spiritual hurt, of constantly having to justify your existence, your location and your presence.” I think this is stated exactly what happen to the slaves in the book.

While analyzing the scene cinematography and narration in Fifty Shades of Grey I noticed many elements used to make the audience understand the romantic and power presented in this film. This scene starts in the film at 51 to 55 minutes, in the book its pages 102-104, 130-132, and 152-157. In the film the angles represented the power of Ana and Christian, which was presented by Ana’s thoughts in the book. When Ana went into the room it’s started a natural eye level as she looked around the room.

“Have you ever wondered what a human life was worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch” (Sepetys). At this point, the NKVD are trying to separate families, but the Vilkas stay strong and do not let the NKVD push them around. They keep the hope that they will be fine. Before that, the NKVD gathered up all the Lithuanians who were on the “list” and put them on a bus to some sort of station and from there they traveled to labor camps and then again they took a few from the labor camp and put them on buses and took them too a new location where they were basically sent to die. This all occurred during the time of World War two. Wrhn Stalin and Hitler were fighting for land. The novel of discussion is Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys. It is about Lina Vilka and her family as they travel from labor camp to labor camp, and experience terrible abuse and treacherous conditions. In the process of it Lina manages to fall in love with a boy named Andrius. Sadly after they realize they like one another they are moved to another camp. The worst part of the whole book is the deaths it describes. The death of Lina’s parents, other Lithuanians at the camps, Ona, and Ona’s baby. It is a;; just horrible. How can one even think of such horrible things to do to innocent people. In the song “Titanium” it shows great similarities to Between Shades of Gray. Although Between Shades of Gray and “Titanium” are different in many ways, they both show signs of abuse, strength,