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As you begin reading the book, what are your first impressions? Make as many comments on this post as you wish, but you must create at least two. ONE of those comments must be a well-organized paragraph. Use specific details from the reading in your comments: characters, events, setting, or other details from the book. If you're having trouble coming up with a way to start your comments, check out the sentence starters, which might give you direction on this generic first post. You have until Monday, November 26 to comment.
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Quang L
11/20/2018 02:49:41 pm
As I began reading My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, I realized that I did not like the writing style of the author because the author, Jennifer Teege, expresses too many emotions in her writing and exaggerates things. One example of this is when she finds the book in the public library about her grandparents. It says: “My knees buckle. I lie down on a bench and close my eyes” (2). It is as if she cannot function like normal person after looking at a few pages of a book. She cannot walk or drive after doing that, and she must call her husband to come pick her up after the traumatic experience.
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Kyle S
11/24/2018 06:53:52 pm
One big difference between your response here and the novel is that the book makes it sound like Jennifer's over-exaggerations are accepted and okay for them to happen. She didn't need to have her husband come and pick her up because she read a book about her grandfather. I get that her grandfather is a disgrace to her because of what he did, but no one knows that the two people are related and honestly no one would care even if they knew.
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Kyle S
11/24/2018 05:44:46 pm
My latest thought about the novel is that the main character, Jennifer Teege, overreacts about the unexpected news of who here grandfather was. Jennifer Teege is too extreme and acts like the world has ended because her grandfather, who no one knows she is related to, is an ex-Nazi that is responsible for thousands of innocent deaths. An example of when Jennifer is over the top, is when she says, "I cannot pull myself together, cannot hold myself together anymore," and later states that she has to go to a psychiatric hospital (18). In my opinion, she is looking for a reason for people to feel bad for her and to bring attention to herself.
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Quang L
11/25/2018 09:01:56 am
I had the same idea in my comment. I understand that she found out that her grandfather was an evil person, and that she may be shocked, but there is no need to act as if her life was ruined. The past is the past, and it really shouldn't affect her as a whole when it comes to her daily life. If I were to discover something terrible about my ancestors, I would say that it's cool and move on. Jennifer keeps bringing up her grandfather over and over again until she hits the point that she becomes even more depressed. There is no need to keep digging into the past.
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Matt K
11/26/2018 05:22:04 am
I believe that some of the overreactions are justified if you add in context. First of all, she is African-American and her grandfather would have thought of her as a disgrace to the family name. Secondly, she has a lot of Jewish friends and studied in Israel, so if word got out her friends would never think of her as the same person. Some would probably become distant or stop talking to her because her grandfather killed thousands of them in the Holocaust
Matt K
11/26/2018 05:14:56 am
One of the things that this book has going for it is that it provides context and different viewpoints throughout the novel. When you read, the book will provide background knowledge to help you understand characters like Amon Goeth and Oskar Schindler. This really fleshes out the characters and puts in scale how one killed many and how one saved many. What also helps the reader is the book will show different viewpoints of an interaction between characters. An example of this is when we get the viewpoint of Peter Bruendl, the psychoanalyst that Jennifer goes to when she is distraught.
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ms.p
11/30/2018 05:55:09 am
Thoughtful comment, Matt.
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John J
11/26/2018 05:38:12 am
In my opinion, Jennifer Teege, the author overreacted to the news of her father being Amon Goeth. She had to call her husband out of work to pick her up just because she was so shocked about the news. There was nothing Teege could do about her grandfather, and I believe she should not care that much about her grandfather's past.
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Ty S
11/26/2018 04:01:58 pm
This idea goes along with what I put in my comment. I understand that having a grandfather that killed many people is hard to take in but you don't have to be so emotional about it. She shouldn't care because it happened in the past and it's over with. She just needs to move on and not let the past affect her future.
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Ty S
11/26/2018 03:56:55 pm
In my opinion, the author Jennifer Teege exaggerates her emotions way too much in the book. When she finds out that her grandfather was a Nazi who killed countless people she begins to freak out and lose her mind. An example of her exaggerating her emotions is when she states, "I cannot pull myself together, cannot hold myself together anymore." I understand that finding out that your grandfather killed lots of people is hard to take in but you don't have to go ballistic over it. The past is the past and no matter what you do you cannot change what happened so there is no reason to react the way she did.
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