Notes on Kavaleir and Clay:
- What are you confused by:
- How does he get to new york?
- travel restrictions put on Jews, he only get to certain places Lithuania still offers travel passes to Jews, goes to japan, then to u.s because they accept people from japan--restrictions on Jews were gradual (curfew, can’t live certain places, walls on neighborhoods, ghettos, taking Jews out)
- Secret society-cabala came out of Prague---golem made out of river clay acts as protector of Jews. Germans were into cult and wanted to find it.
- To find it they acted as census people and asked what their names were and if they were Jewish---they would put star of David on peoples window.
- process of elimination, narrowed it down to 2 apartments P.44-5 “His face took...”---rips up the records of the Jews because he didn't want it to fall into the hands of the Germans
- Activity on figurative language:
- P.49(middle-third paragraph “A generation....”
- Thought apartment was empty, but it was a brothel. Kornblum knew the prostitutes. Stayed for the night. Ask the kids and they know where the window of the apartment is where no one has been seen. Being compared to a young, blank planet. Empty window-empty planet undiscovered, attraction--gravity. Kids have the knowledge, adults don’t. Intensity added to the window by comparing it to a planet.
- P.58 (second paragraph) “For some reason...”
- Description, gone back into parents apartment, dad has collection of oddities. Giant has tailored suit--needed it to put on golem because in Judaism no clothes on corpses. Labels have fathers name on them. Hyphens compared to stylized bolts of lightning. Writing fast hyphens can be curved, connects two words, lighting connection between ground and sky. His father is very important to him. Striking to him how they need to leave. They are in a shit storm. Reading the writing of a dead man--knows his family can die at any moment.
The danger in Prague forced Joe to escape his hometown and leave his family behind. According to wikipedia, 277,000 Jews were killed in Prague. 345,000 people in total. Joe could sense what was coming. Leaving your family behind in a brutal situation is a tough decision I know I wouldn't be able to make. Would you
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