Chapter 18 question (Sarah)

When the German officer finds out that szpilman is a Jew he still decides to help him hide from the SS and give him food. Why do you think he chose to help him? If you were the officer would you choose to help szpilman even though it could put your own life in danger?

Chapter 17 question

How would you feel if you were the last one left in a destroyed ghetto. You managed to come so far and all of a sudden a German soldier is hovering over you asking why your searching for food. Szpilman just stood there not knowing what to do, it was too late to run, he had no other option. What would you do if you were stuck in that position?

Chapter 16 question (Steph)

in the beginning of the chapter, szpilman wakes up in the house. He describes the circumstances he is in and whats going on the filthiness and the dead bodies. If you were placed in such circumstances, how would it make you feel? Or in other words, how would you cope with all of it?

Chapter 15 question (Sarah)

If you were szpilman and were still locked inside the same room and all you could do while the Germans were going through the city shooting innocent people is see what is happening through the window and hear gun fire outside how would you feel? Would you want someone to let you out so you could help fight back when the rebellion began or would you want to stay locked in the room?

Chapter 14 question (Steph)

In chapter 14, Szpilman finds a new hiding place during these hard times would you continue to try and get out by finding another hiding place, or would you wait until the war was over, risking death and possibly never escaping.

Chapter 13 question

Szpilman is in hiding in a room that he can not leave. He is actually locked in from the outside. He is brought food every week by a family who cares for him. But every day szpilman wonders If they will come into his building and find him. Szpilman decided that he will nor let the Germans take him alive so he has planned out ways of comiting suicide. He made a nuce and hung it from the celing and put a chair under it. What would be going though your head if you had to wake up and see the same four walls for weeks on end, as well as think that at any time you may need to kill yourself, what thoughts would be going though your head? Also in the movie one difference I noticed is that in the movie he puts a chair up to the window so that if the Germans came he would run and jump, he never prepared a nuce for himself.

Chapter 11 Question (Steph)

This chapter really starts talking about when the Germans took them to a ghetto and put them to work. As we read about the conditions he was in and how he was in pain, there were mothers and fathers being separated from their kids. In Szpilmans point of view, what thoughts would be running through your head? Would you be able to cope with everything and stay calm, or would you lash out and risk death?