The book that I’m gonna talk about today is called ‘Flowers in the Gutter’ by K.R.Gaddy. This book talk about three children Gertrud, Fritz, and Jean, and other group of people who resisted to the Nazis, long for their freedom. Right after the World War 1, and Hitler and Nazis run the government of Germany, Gertrud, Fritz, and Jean lose their families and friends from Nazi, and pledge to stand up for themselves right and revenge to them. They joined resistance group of teenagers called ‘Pirates’ and do many resisting movements towards Nazi. They didn’t give up to Nazis pressure, and finally, Nazi lose the power, and they got returned their memory, Freedom, and life full of joy.

The task I was working on with this book was to track the main theme or central idea of this book. While reading this book and taking notes of it, I concluded that the main theme and lesson from this book is that people should stand up for themselves and their important things, not giving up to the pressures on them.

Here are the notes that I took while reading the book….

the first pictures shows how Nazis treated political prisoners and how peaceful were people’s daily lives before Nazis come to power, which means that they should fight for their right for themselves because nothing change without any movement and treatment of Nazis towards people keep are getting.

 

The second picture analysis important events in each chapters and compare the events that the main characters had with theme that is important in real life too, which says, ‘if people don’t give up on what they are doing, they will finally achieve the result that they want’, and it can be connected to the main central idea of this book because it is same that people should ‘do something to fight against something that stops them’ and they should not ‘give up.’

 

The third picture shows the timeline of first two parts of the book. The main thing of part 1 and 2 are the experiences of main characters and the way that Nazi tries to take away freedom of people and control people, which are enough reason for resistance of people and especially for the main characters, because the behaviors that Nazis showed towards them were so brutal.

 

The last picture shows the causes and effects of the actions that Nazis or the main characters have taken. It shows how the main characters change to hate Nazis A LOT and join anti-Nazi group and respond of Nazis(pressures, arrests, execution) towards their movement, which can represent both cause of the resistance towards Nazis and pressures or hindrances of them to stop the people who resists to their power.

Like what I mentioned, in the book, Nazis killed and beaten people who disagree to them and try to control the whole country as what they want. they arrest and execute people who disobey. However, the resistance group finally freed themselves from Nazis at the end of the book. Therefore, people in these days should learn from this book that they should stand up for themselves to achieve the goal they wish and shall not give up to things that interrupts them of pressures on them.

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