Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Chapter 2 Question (Sarah)

When Wladyslaw Szpilman and the others in his town first heard about the Germans attacking, they went on with their everyday lives normally. When he was also told that the Germans were advancing on Warsaw, he decided to stay at his house and not leave to try and find a safer place. If you were in this position would you have reacted the same way as Szpilman and the others in his town? In what ways would you have reacted differently?
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  1. KristenMay 3, 2011 at 4:28 PM

    I think that if I were in his position I would have taken a risk and tried to find a safer place. Because if I saw that the conditions were getting worse I would not want my family to have to suffer through that. I dont think that I would be able to just continue with my normal every day life either, it would be extremely difficult to watch people die each day and not know how to protect yourself or your family. I think that I would do everything in my power to find a safer place for me and my family to live.

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  2. germie19May 3, 2011 at 5:01 PM

    After seeing how the war has affected people in Iraq and Afghanistan, I would not want to just sit there and take it. If I was in Szpilman's position I would have gotten my family out of there instead of leaving them in the harmful conditions. On page 27, Szpilman wrote, "I was still at home, although it was already eleven o'clock. We left the radio on all day so as not to miss a word of the all-important news." I do not know how he managed to stay so calm through all of that. I would have been packing up everything I have and my family would be ready to leave.

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