Monday, May 2, 2011

Chapter 1 Question

If you and your family were stuck in a "ghetto" do you think you would be as positive as Wladyslaw Szpilman and find a job to keep busy.. ect? Also what kind of affect on you physically and mentally do you living in the ghetto would create?

2 comments:

  1. If my family and I were stuck in a ghetto, I don't think that I would be as positive as Wladyslaw Szpilman and find a job in order to keep me busy. In the ghettos, many people were dying each day and if I was stuck in one, there wouldn't be anything that I could do to stay as positive as Szpilman with all of these people dying around me. I think that living in a ghetto would affect me physically because a lot of people got sick and illness spread through the ghettos really fast. Also, there was not a lot of food to eat so it would cause me and all of the others living in the ghetto to become weak from lack of food. It could affect me mentally either by making me stronger or by making me weaker. It could make me stronger by causing me to fight to stay alive. It could make me weaker though, because seeing people die around me could make me depressed and just give up and be ready to die.

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  2. I think that if I was stuck in a ghetto with my family, I would in no way be able to control myself. I would not be able to think about anything else besides getting out, and if I tried to distract myself, it would only make me more antsy to leave. Being in a ghetto would change my physically because I would not want to talk to anyone or eat anything which would make me sick. I do not think I would be the same person as I was before because I would be put in such a situation that has caused me so much pain and terror and my brain would be so used to that, that I wouldn't be able to be my "old" self again.

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