...The boy who dared is an extraordinary display of historical fiction that takes place in the late 40’s, based on real life circumstances a young heroic German boy Helmuth dared to stand up against Hitler’s edicts in World War 2. Many people learn in their very own history class about the Holocaust and the intense mass-murders of Jewish people all over Europe, but how many people know about the non-Jewish who were tortured, imprisoned and put to the death row just for what they believed and didn’t believe in. I would recommend this book to any reader who is searching for a good book to read or if they want to know more about the German Resistance. The book expresses a strong message of not being a bystander and letting evil overrule, but to stand up for those who don’t have a voice even if the consequences are severe....
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...While almost all pieces of writing have a theme, some writers use their techniques to show the theme. In pieces like The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen, The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, “Teens Against Hitler” by Lauren Tarshis, and “Betrayed By America” by Kristin Lewis, the authors use their techniques to express their theme in a masterful way. In The Devil's Arithmetic, Hannah goes back in time to the holocaust and experiences it herself, meanwhile in The Boy Who Dared, Helmuth looks back at what put him on death row during the holocaust. Then, in “Teens Against Hitler”, A young boy is take to a ghetto, and then leaves to join a resistance group, and in “Betrayed By America”, a japanese boy is taken to an internment camp...
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...Don’t be a Bystander Forgetting to breathe when he hears footsteps outside his cell. The high window that he is not allowed to look out of. The bed made of wooden boards. The tiny amount of bread and water that comes through the slot in the door. This is what it was like for Helmuth in the concentration camp. The Boy who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a book based on the story of Helmuth´s life during, and leading up to him being in a concentration camp. Throughout the story, Helmuth sees how much Hitler is hiding from them. Nobody is allowed to do anything that’s not German. Also, he starts to see how the Jews are being treated differently. So, Helmuth illegally listens to a different radio station to get the truth and he makes leaflets with his friends, Karl and Rudi, to give people information about what is really going on with the war. Helmuth gets caught and put in a concentration camp where he later is killed. The Holocaust was a very dark time where people were in need of a hero....
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