Silent Night post 2

Silent Night

By Stanley Weintraub

Summary:

I am going to give a brief summary of what happens in the book Silent Night. In the pages thirty five to seventy what happens in a nut shell is the book talks about what types of things they did in the Christmas celebration. Also how they celebrated/ honored their differences and dead soldiers. In a sense the way they honored the dead soldiers was that they would have a ceremony for all recently killed soldiers and they would bury all of the soldiers killed. Also to celebrate Christmas the soldiers on both sides sheared their relief packages with one another and give them to the opposing army’s soldiers, and they put aside each others differences to celebrate Christmas. Also they shared food with one another and told stories to one another in the trenches. It shows that the Human race is still kind and caring.

Quote:

This quote I think shows a summary of the book. The quote even has the book title, and when you see the book title in the quote you know it is important. That is why I choose the quote. I am not going to fully divulge the meaning of the quotes because then I would defeat the purpose of reading it.

“After a silent night and day--in many sectors much more than that--the war went on.  The peace seemed nearly forgotten. Yet memories of Christmas 1914 persist, and underlying them the compelling realities and the intriguing might-have-beens. What if...?”

Reaction:

My reaction to the book is that it was a very interesting read. I have always been interested in history from the begging. It is fun to learn about new things. Also that the book is one of my favorite books know. That is because the Author writes it as if you were actually their and it is so vivid in description that you can imagine the scenes happening as you read. Lastly I can’t stress enough that you read this book. That is because I loved it so much and I don’t normally enjoy reading but I did.

Silent Night post 1

Silent Night

By Stanley Weintraub

Summary:          I am going to give a brief summary of what happens in the first 35 pages of the Book silent night. The first thing that almost all books do at the beginning of the book is they tell the setting of the book and what time period it is in. It happened in the 19hundreds. In the early months of World War 1, on Christmas Eve, men on both sides laid down their arms. Also disregarding the orders of their commanders they came tighter and spontaneously celebrated Christmas. That is basically what happens in the first thirty five pages of Silent Night. Lastly Silent Night is a book that you have to read.

Quote:

“After a silent night and day--in many sectors much more than that--the war went on.  The peace seemed nearly forgotten. Yet memories of Christmas 1914 persist, and underlying them the compelling realities and the intriguing might-have-beens. What if...?”

This quote I think shows a summary of the book. The quote even has the book title, and when you see the book title in the quote you know it is important. That is why I choose the quote. I am not going to fully divulge the meaning of the quotes because then I would defeat the purpose of reading it.

Reaction:

My reaction to the book is that it was a very interesting read. I have always been interested in history from the begging. It is fun to learn about new things. Also that the book is one of my favorite books know. That is because the Author writes it as if you were actually their and it is so vivid in description that you can imagine the scenes happening as you read. Lastly I can’t stress enough that you read this book. That is because I loved it so much and I don’t normally enjoy reading but I did.

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Scanner

Darkly

            I am going to give a brief summary of what happened in the beginning of scanner darkly. I have to say that I really enjoyed watching the movie scanner darkly. That is because for one I really enjoy science fiction books and movies. Second because it had a sort of real twist to it. The third reason is because it is about real problems like drugs. I am going to be giving a brief introduction about the beginning and or introduction to the book. I see what is happening in the beginning of the book is there is this drug addict who is addicted to some drug, and it causes him to imagine that he is being eaten alive by bugs and it is caused by the drugs. It is so much of a problem that secret agents are sent in to spy on drug lords and find out what drug is causing the problem and that is basically what happens in the first part of the movie and lastly this movie was assume. That is all I have to say about this topic and that is my roar post number three. The first of three movie posts.