The Boy on the Wooden Box

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Prompt: Did you expect the events in the book to happen?

I feel like when you read a book, mostly about something as terrible as the Holocaust, you are never really prepared enough to read a first-person's experience. I really like what I have read so far because it is very real. The author doesn't try to sound formal, you can tell that all of the story is real just by the way he writes. Leyson was ten years old when World War II started, and he lived in Poland with his family consisting of his mother, father, sister, and three brothers. At first, his family were all relocated to the Krakow ghetto. I think that even at this part I got emotional because I really can't picture people telling me and my family that we have to move because of our religion.

Something that Leyson said really caught my attention, he said, "After all, what can we trust if not our own experience?" In the book, when he said this, Leyson was talking about how he did not expect at all that the soldiers that came into his country in WWII were going to be a lot different from the soldiers in WWI. He described the soldiers that came into his country during WWI as people who just wanted to go home and who were actually nice people. He said that how would anyone in Poland know that these soldiers would be different and then he said the quote. 

I really find the quote interesting because it is true. I mean, we rely mostly on our own experiences, and we don't really have doubts since we have experienced it. I think that this really sets the stage for how Leyson described what happened after.