Alex's Sixth Book Summary/Byrd & Igloo A Polar Adventure Book

Byrd & Igloo A Polar Adventure 

By Samantha Seiple

In this book Byrd & Igloo the main characters are Maris Boggs a small women, Richard Evelyn Byrd which is a 37 year old man and Igloo, Byrd's best friend he took along everywhere he went most of the time. Byrd had rescued Igloo which is a little scrappy fox from the streets in Washington D.C. In the book they take a trip from the port of Los Angeles on October 10, 1928 and took a 10,000 mile trip to Antarctica. Not only was it just them going to Antarctica it was also 3 other ships carrying 2,500 pounds of pemmican, 2,000 pounds of cocoa and 3,000 pounds of powdered milk, last but not least they had dehydrated fruits and vegetables. While all of this is happening Byrd and Igloo are still together and they don't plan on leaving each other. 

Alex's Fifth Summary/Night By Elie Wiesel

A summary so far of what's happening in our book is it's taking place during the Holocaust in 1944. Elie Wiesel the author of the book is telling one of his personal stories but remastered into a story. Now in the beginning of the book it starts off being in the ghettos and in concentration camps in Germany with the Nazis. Wiesel begins to not stand up for anyone and just be on his own, most Jews really don't stand up for each other because they already know the consequences and don't wanna get killed. Some words in the book aren't always English because of what country they are in so it's sometimes is in German which makes things a little complicated but gives the book a more of a historic background to it.  

Problems During the Holocaust

During the holocaust there were many bystanders instead of upstanders at the time. If Jews misbehaved any of the rules they were given by the Germans then they would either get beaten up or killed which made the Jews resist from standing up for each other. I myself would've been a bystander in these types of situations too because of how terrible you can get treated. If it were a little problem with a Jew having an issue with a German then I would step up if it's only one German involved in the situation. Another major problem that was going on in the holocaust was the torture chambers and camps that were happening to the Jews. When following German orders at that time you must or else you will die no matter what which caused many innocent Jews to die.