The Book of Time

Well, so far and in general the book is about well, a book of time and. As well as a special stone. Whatever. So the boy , Sam, in the book is some 13 years old. His father hasn't been home for ten days so far. He said he'd be home in a few days from his business trip. He does this all the time so Sam isn't worried, but it's still a lot longer than normal. He decides to kill some time that day and ends up in his fathers old book store and looks around at the things and memories of his early childhood. He finds a secret cellar room downstairs and ducks through the whole into it. A stone is what he sees, and he begins his adventure in search of his dad through time.
I'd imagine it would be very difficult finding one person through time when you don't even know what year, but as far as I am in the book right now Sam's in medieval age right now runnin' around and getting stuff done.
In other things, Sam as a person to me is both a brave and cowardly boy. The reason I say this is because him being a martial arts student goes to tournaments he's generally scared of a boy named Monk. Much bigger than him, and last tournament he was crushed by him....literally. I say he's brave because I mean he went on a deathly adventure through time just to find his dad. So that's what I got about Sam from the book.

The Boy Who Dared

Well I just finished a great book, The Boy Who Dared, and to say the least, it's pretty good. Never mind, the reason I'm writing this  is to say what the book is about and all that blah blah blah. Getting right to it the main character is a boy named Helmuth Hübener, in Nazi Germany, but the thing that I really love about the book is it switches between the past and present and the past being his memories. So normal text is just his memories and his life, then when it switches to italicized text you know that what you are reading is present time for him. Of course there are side characters like his friend Rudi and Karl then his brothers Gerhard and Hanz. Nonetheless the story and plot are just great. Even though it being an easy read doesn't mean it isn't a good one, so in the end it's an all around great book.

Holocaust Blog

I'd say the reason for the people of Nazi Germany to be the bystanders was because the Germans had a very powerful and effective weapon, fear and intimidation. With the German public soon realizing what was going on there were a brave few that stood up, but for the mass of the public being bystanders they were influenced by the fear and decided to stay in there place and not go out of line with the Nazi. They were also being reasonable as far as most humans would consider reasonable. They would rather have their family and themselves alive and not punished rather than being like the unlucky Jews, Gypsies Gays, and up-standers, etc. Human nature kicked in and it was a fight or flight time, either you fight and risk dying for a cause or you can try and fly below the radar and stay safe and for the most part sound with their families.

As far as my opinion on being a bystander or up-stander, I for a fact would be a bystander I'm not one to back away from fear as well as I am one to be susceptible to intimidation. I'd first think I'm obligated to do something about it, but as time would go on I would think about it and realize there would be no way I'd be doing it for the same reason that the real German public (mass of German's) didn't stand up against the Third Reich's rule over Germany, Poland, France, and much of Europe.

Then again for the up-standers they would need to have a lot courage to be able to stand up against such a powerful force with such a small force of rebellion. Even with a large force it would be a massive challenge for them as they would need time, lots of it, to be able to go against the Nazis and make a large notable difference. Although the changes the rebels did make may not have been significant but it did give them hope, hope that in turn could have inspired more and more up-standers to stand up for a change against a super power such as the Nazis.