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Open the above link and read the story. What is the Big Idea in this story? What is an allegory and how does it relate to this story? Have you read other allegories and if so what were they? How did you know they were allegories?
What connections can you make between this story and Hana's Suitcase?
I think that the big idea of the story is that if we all stand up and don’t turn our heads on something that we know is wrong, we can change what’s happening, but if we turn our heads away from those in need, it will come back to haunt us: “"We have come for any creature that is white," the Terrible Things thundered. "There are no white creatures here but us," Big Rabbit said. "We have come for you," the Terrible Things said. The rabbits scampered in every direction. "Help!" they cried. "Somebody help!" But there was no one left to help. And the big, circling nets dropped over them, and the Terrible Things carried them away.”
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"The big idea" is that if you stand up to what is right bad things could be prevented though it might be hard. An allegory is something that has a hidden meaning and compares to another story. I haven't read any allegory's yet...well I think I haven't anyways. How I knew if they were allegory's I don't because I don't know if I've read one. My connections are Small rabbit is like George and all the other survivors and every other animal was like everyone who died during the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteI thunk that the big idea in the story is that if you stand up before something bad happens and not turn away, the problem could stop. An allegory is a story that is the same to another one, but changed a bit. The other story that it relates to is A non-fiction story (it's real) about "The Holocaust.". I knew it was a allegory because it relates alot to "The Holocaust" because the "Terrible Things" are like the Nazis who took (mostly) Jewish people to death camps. All the animals are the Jewish people and all the other people who got taken away by the Nazis. The connections I can make with this story and Hana's Suitcase is that the animals were her (Hana) her family and other jews, and the little rabbit is like George (Hana's brother) because he is the only one in the family who survived and in the story the little rabbit is the only one that didn't get taken away. Then the rabbit left the clearing and went into the rest of the forest, just like when George left Nove Mesto and came to Canada! The rabbit then told about the terrible things that happened and same with George. -Xavier
ReplyDeleteAn allegory is a type of story where the characters and events are symbols that are like our life, or for political/historical situation (thanks to Merriam Webster, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allegory, : a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation). An allegory relates to this story because the story is an allegory. The story uses animals that live in a clearing (which could stand for Germany, Poland, ex.), and terrible things (Nazis) come and slowly weed away the population. Little Rabbit stands for all those who survived the Holocaust (which is what the story represents).
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The big idea in this story is if in the time of the Holocaust, someone stepped in and helped the others, instead of living in fear, maybe things would have been different and maybe all if that would have never happened.
ReplyDelete“When they had all gone, Little Rabbit crept into the middle of the empty clearing. "I should have tried to help the other rabbits," he thought. "If only we creatures had stuck together, it could have been different." Sadly, Little Rabbit left the clearing. He'd go tell other forest creatures about the Terrible Things. He hoped someone would listen.”
So as you can see from this quote from the story, it ties into what I said was the big idea, that if someone stepped in and helped everything could have been different.
An allegory, is a story written with the actions and the characters based off of something that actually happened. For example, this allegory was based of the Holocaust, a time when the Nazis invaded Germany and tried to kill all the Jews there. They tie in together because in this story one by one the “Terrible Things” came in and took all the animals, and the other just watched it happen and didn’t do anything. Finally, at the end, all the animals were gone, except for one who went off the warn the others.
I don’t remember, off the top of my head, reading an allegory but I may have at a time and I just forgot now. The only thing I can think of is a movie I saw based off of Cinderella but, I don’t think that counts because Cinderella didn’t really happen so it’s not really an allegory, at least I don’t think it is.
Even though I haven’t read an allegory that I can think of right now, I’ll still say what makes a story an allegory in response to the question:
“How did you know they were allegories?”
I’d know if a story was an allegory if it was based off of a real life event but it isn’t a story on the real life event, so it’s still a fiction book but it’s based off of non-fiction. I may also know if it says it was an allegory on the cover like it did on the cover of Terrible Things.
A connection I made between this story and Hana’s Suitcase is that in Hana’s Suitcase only one survives, the brother, George and only one survives in Terrible Things the little rabbit, I have no idea what’s it’s name is but I think it’s the little rabbit.
The big idea in this story is the fact that when the Jews and others were getting killed by the Nazis those who were more fortunate weren't doing anything to stop them, which is very bad and possibly the only reason it happened the way it did. An allegory is a fictional story inspired by non-fiction, so between the lines is the true meaning of the story which is about the non-fictional story this story relates to allegories because it is an allegory of the holocaust. No I have not read other allegories. This connects to Hana's Suitcase because it suggests the holocaust between the lines of the story and Hana's Suitcase is completely about the holocaust.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the Big Idea in this story?
ReplyDeleteI think that the big idea is that we should not just stand by and let these terrible things happen. If something bad is happening, we should do something about it.
What is an allegory and how does it relate to this story?
An allegory is a comparison to something that happened in reality. Terrible Things relates to the Holocaust, and I know that because it says on the cover “An Allegory of the Holocaust.”
Have you read other allegories and if so what were they?
I have not read any allegories, but now I want to read some.
How did you know they were allegories?
I have not read any allegories.
What connections can you make between this story and Hana's Suitcase?
I can make a connection to Hana’s Suitcase because both books were about the Holocaust. I can also relate to Hana’s Suitcase because the Terrible Things remind me of the Nazis, the animals remind me about the Jews, and the clearing reminds me of Germany.
I can’t remember any other allegories, so I don’t think that I have read any. Sorry. I think that you could use other wars and political disasters as an allegory, though.
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The big idea of the story is about the holocaust. It's like the terrible things are like the Nazis, the animals are like Jews and the other people in the concentration camps, and the little rabbit was like the survivors of the Jews. An allegory is a story where it compares the book to something that happened in real life, like how the story compared to the Nazis taking the Jews, and also Hana Brady's experience. An allegory is also like a story with a moral, like how the moral of the story was to try to help others.
ReplyDeleteI have only read a few allegories, like The boy who cried wolf and some other fables like that. I knew they were allegories, because all fables have morals, and all allegories have morals.
The story is also like the story of Hana Brady's life, because the other animals except for the little rabbit were like the mom and dad of Hana Brady, because Hana Brady's parents were taken away by the Nazis. George was like the little rabbit, because he was a survivor, like how the little rabbit survived just like him.
The 'Big Idea' in this story is that if you don't help others if they are in need, one day it will cause trouble for you and bad things will happen. For example, if somebody is being bullied and you have the chance to help him/her, but you don't, then one day the bully might bully you and they won't help you since you didn't help them (they actually might help if you are the better person.) In the book, all the animals get taken away, and each time the Big Rabbit doesn't try to help, and doesn't care for them, while Little Rabbit wishes to help. After all the animals are gone apart from the Rabbits, the 'Terrible Things' come to take them. They take Big Rabbit, but Little Rabbit hides and is not taken away. Little Rabbit tried to be nice and survived, while Big Rabbit was spiteful and mean and was taken away. This is something Big Rabbit said about one of the animals (the squirrel) :
ReplyDelete"Those squirrels were greedy," Big Rabbit said."Always storing things away for themselves. Never Sharing."
In the end, Big Rabbit gets taken away, since there was no one to help him when he was being dragged away by the Terrible Things.
An 'allegory' is a story that symbolizes a subject while telling an original story. the book 'Terrible Things' is an allegory of the Holocaust. This book is an allegory of the Holocaust because all the characters symbolize something. Here is a quick list of what each character symbolizes:
-The Terrible Things = The Nazi's, who took Jews away from their homes to Concentration Camps
-All the Animals = The Jewish People, who were taken to Concentration Camps
-Big Rabbit = The Bystanders who didn't do anything to help
-Little Rabbit = The Survivors of the Holocaust, who now tell stories to others to prevent it from happening again
I cannot recall reading any Allegories apart from this book, but I wish to read some in the near future. Since I have not read any allegories, I cannot really explain how they were allegories.
This book is connected to the book 'Hana's Suitcase' because it is about the Holocaust. Having read both books, I can make some connections to the characters in 'Hana's Suitcase' and to the ones in 'Terrible Things.' For example, I see Little Rabbit as George Brady, since he was the only survivor of his family to survive in the Holocaust and Little Rabbit was the only animal left to survive the Terrible Things attacks. Another connection I can make is all the animals being the Jewish People from Nove Mesto na Morave, since all of them were taken away and put in Concentration Camps. I also see the animals like the Squirrels as Hana Brady, since they were taken away like Hana and never came back. I don't think Hana is like the porcupine and Big Rabbit, since they were mean and Spiteful, unlike Hana.
I really enjoyed this book, along with Hana's Suitcase, and I hope to read more Allegories like this.
-Aidan
I think that the Big Idea in the story is that we have to stand up for what we believe in. Kind of like how little rabbit tried to tell big rabbit that they should get away before the terrible things came back, or “go tell other forest creatures about the Terrible Things.”
ReplyDeleteAn allegory is a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life. An allegory relates to this story because it is like the Holocaust. It is like the terrible things were the Nazi’s and the animals were the Jews, because the terrible things (the Nazi’s) were taking away the animals (the Jews) one by one.
I have read other allegories, they were, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, and many other fairy tales, I think that I have read Novels that are allegories too, but I can’t think of any of them right now.
I knew that they were allegories because in the stories, the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life.
The connections that I can make from Terrible Things, to Hana’s Suitcase are: Little rabbit is like George Brady, and the other people from the camp, who survived, because little rabbit survived the terrible things, just like how George, and the other people who survived from the camp, survived the war.
Also, little rabbit was trying to protect the other animals that could have been killed, like how George was trying to protect Hana, who could have been killed.
~Eileen
A connection I can make is that they are both about the mistreatment of Jewish people. Also, in both of them, no one was trying to help the Jewish in Germany, which I thought was sad, because they (other people) would be next, if it wasn't for the Allied Forces (they defeated the Nazis/Hitler). The books were also both about WW||.
ReplyDeleteThe big Idea from this story is that if everyone stands up to evil, then it is possible that we can get rid of that evil, but in that story the animals did not stick up for each other when the terrible things came and took them, the author is also comparing this to the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteAn Allegory is when a story is hiding a hidden message, or a comparison to something in real life. This is an allegory, because it is comparing to that of the Holocaust in the way that the Terrible things were the Nazis and the animals were the Jews and other groups in which the Nazis were inferior to such as Russians, Gypsies, and much more.
I may have read an allegory once maybe but I am not sure if it was a good one or not, in Diary of The Wimpy Kid, Gregory writes an allegory about a monkey named Rory, and sent it to a publisher, in the book it showed the allegory, I don't think it really had any meaning though, but according to the Diary of a Wimpy kid wiki, it was an allegory.
In this story and Hana's Suitcase, the connections are, they are both sad, only one person survives (well in the Brady family) in each book which are George and The Little Rabbit.
I think that the big idea is that if all the animals had worked together and helped each other, the terrible things would not have been able to capture the other animals. "Standing up for what you know is right is not always easy. Especially if the one you face is bigger and stronger than you. It is easier to look the other way. But, if you do, terrible things can happen." I think an allegory is a story that relates to something that happened in the real world. Little rabbit was like George, the other animals were like the people who died in the holocaust and the terrible things were like the Nazis. I don't think I have read an allegory before. Maybe I did when I was little, but I didn't know it was called an allegory. One connection I can make between this story and Hana's Suitcase is that they are both about the holocaust. They also have only black & white pictures.
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1) What is the Big Idea in this story?
ReplyDeleteThe Big Idea in the story is that you should stand up for what you know is right, even if it is quite hard. You should never just stand by and watch terrible things happen to others. On the front page, it says, “Standing up for what you know is right is not always easy. Especially if the one you face is bigger and stronger than you. It is easier to look the other way. But, if you do, terrible things can happen. --E.B.” This is reflected clearly through the story, and it is very true.
2) What is an allegory and how does it relate to this story?
An allegory is “a story, poem, or picture which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.” Basically, when reading an allegory, you must read between the lines, inferencing. The book 'Terrible Things,' is an example of the holocaust, but in a little more friendlier terms. The book is historical fiction, meaning that is is made up, but based off of facts (history). 'Terrible Things' has animals instead of real people and they were wanted because of their appearance, like the Nazi’s wanted people because of their beliefs. Also, the Terrible Things were portraying the Nazi’s, with the head Terrible Thing being Adolf Hitler.
3) Have you read other allegories and if so what were they? How did you know they were allegories?
I do not think that I have read an allegory before besides this one.
4) What connections can you make between this story and Hana's Suitcase?
~Little Rabbit reminds me a little of George, because they both survived.
~Both of the stories are based around the holocaust and things that went one during it
~Both had characters who took people/animals away for no good/any reason at all
~Some characters in each book do not think that what is going on was fair or right
~The evil people/animals were not kind or merciful at all
~Horrible things happen in both books
The big idea of the story is that some awful things in history, or even small everyday things, might not have happened if people had stood together and tried to prevent them. I think that an allegory is a depiction of something that has happened, except the people might be presented in different forms (example: animals) and the setting might be different, but still represent where the event actually took place (example: a forest). I think that this is an allegory of the Holocaust because the animals are being captured and driven out of their home, just like the Jews and other people who were effected the Holocaust. I am not entirely sure if I have read other allegories, but I think that I have read some novels that have allegories within them, they are just not so direct. I knew that these books were allegories because I could just tell that they were depicting certain stories that I have heard. "Terrible Things" is a little bit like "Hana's Suitcase" because each of the individual types of animals are taken away one by one, just like Hana and George's family are slowly separated and taken away one by one. I think that the quote "Standing up for what you know is right is not always easy. Especially if the one you face is bigger and stronger than you. It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things may happen." is very true and very important.
ReplyDeleteI think the big idea in the story is even if it is hard, you should stand up anyways and don't do nothing becasue that will not help and probaly make terrible things. The big rabbit in the story does nothing by commenting in a negitave way to all the animals who have been taken like " oh, the brids were to noisey anyways". An allegory is a story with a meaning in it . It also has a comparison to a real story, this allegory connects to Hana's suitcase. It modifys the story so the animals are the jews. I have connections from this story to Hana's suitcase. Think of all the animals being the people and the terrible things being the nazis. first the jews get taken away (the brids) then you can refer to other animals as people like fish being the christainds or frogs being the people being the people that have diffrent skin colour.
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Open the above link and read the story. What is the Big Idea in this story? What is an allegory and how does it relate to this story? Have you read other allegories and if so what were they? How did you know they were allegories? What connections can you make between this story and Hana's Suitcase?
ReplyDeleteThe big idea in the story is that you have to stand up and not be a bystander. You have to stand up and do something about it. Even if it’s bigger than you. It says “ Standing up for what is right is not always easy. Especially if the one you face is bigger and stronger than you. It’s easier to look the other way. But, if you do, terrible things can happen.”
An allegory is a story when you have characters as symbols for events of human life.
The animals in the forest are the jews that were killed by the nazis./
Like the clearing with the animals Hana’s family was caulet by the “Terrible Things”.
First Hana’s mom. Kind of like the birds. Then Hana’s dad. Then they came for the children: Hana and George. George was the only person that survived. Like the bunny.
The "Big Idea" of this story is if all the animals have stuck together, everything might have changed and they wouldn't be taken away by the "Terrible Things" who were the Nazis and they were taking away the animals. The animals are like the different kinds of people who were taken away to the concentration camps.
ReplyDeleteAn allegory is a story, poem or picture that has a hidden meaning to it and you can find the meaning if you relate it to something.
This is an allegory because it has a hidden meaning. The hidden meaning is that behind the story, it's really about the Nazis taking away the different kinds of people and taking them to concentration camps.
I don’t think I have ever read an allegory before, but if I had, I don’t remember the title or anything about it.
Connections between the book ‘Hana’s Suitcase’ is that in my opinion, the Little Rabbit is like George, because he is the only animal that wasn't taken away by the Nazis.
I think the big idea in this story is to tell people that if you turn your back on something that’s not right, that needs to be stood up to, and ignore the problem, terrible things will happen. Terrible things will happen because it’s not a fairy tale story - your problems don’t just disappear, it’s reality, so you have to stand up for what’s right. It does not matter what type of situation you are in, you can’t ignore it!
ReplyDeleteI think an allegory is a story that sends an important message. A story in which the characters and events are symbols that tell you, truths about human life, and I think this relates to the story “Terrible Things” because like I said before, the story tells you that, even if it’s as scary as having all your friends and the ones you care about taken away (just like the story “Terrible Things”) you can’t pretend like it’s actually a good thing, or that it’s okay when the situation you are in is really not good at all. You need to do the right thing and stand up for what’s right, and “Terrible Things” sends you that message.
I have read other allegories and one of them was Hana’s suitcase. I know because it kind of connects with Terrible Things since they both send an important message, and the message is similar - Don’t turn your back on bad things or problems. Stand up for what is right. I also think that both of the stories plot took place during the war, and the animals from “Terrible Things” represents all the Jews, and Catholics that got sent to concentration camps by the Nazis.
Anyways, I think both of the book are allegories, and send an important message.