One Eye Laughing The Other Weeping report

Summary: Julie Weiss is a rich Jew who lives withe her mother, father, and her brother named Max in Vienna, Austria. Julie is very close with her father and she loves to read. Her father got her a dairy, witch is the book I'm reading,  for her on her birth day. Her family finds out that Hitler is coming to Vienna. One day in the middle of the night Julie's family is attacked by the Nazis. they make her mother dress in her finest things and lead her away leaving Julie in the house by herself, when she comes back her dress is torn and every thing else she had on is gone. Nobody knows what happened to Julie's mother that night but she ends up killing herself latter on. Julie's father sends Julie to New York, New York to live with her mother's sister. Her brother Max was supposed to come but he he ran away to somewhere he believed was safe for the Jews. When she gets to America she notices that things are very different there then what they are in Vienna. Julie waits for her father to send her a letter but it never comes. Julie soon learns of her fathers death. The Nazis ordered him to leave to leave when he was helping a patient but he refused and they shot him. Max did make it to Palestine and soon visited Julie in Los Angeles in 1954 with his wife and 8-year-old son. Julie never married but had a child named Liesl.

Topic: The topic to this book is how life was for the Jews in 1938

Theme: The theme of this book is What the Jews had to go through.

Personal Evalation: i personaly realy really liked this story even though some of my friends told me it looked really boring. I usally go for fantasy/scifi/romance books but this book was vry good nd always kept me reading. I loved when Julie started learning English and listing to American music. It was realy sad when i got to the part where it told me Julie's mother killed herself even though it wasnt really talked about. When I got to the epilogue and found out her father was shot it made me me really upset because i knew julie was really close with her father. i would sujest this book to people who enjoy historical fiction.

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Characters: Julie: A young girl who is also a Jew. Her family is very wealthy. She doesn't look what a lot of the other Jews look like she has brown hair but she has green eyes instead of brown. She is very close to her father. She loves to write and read. Latter in the book she finds out she has a talent for acting, so when she gets old she takes on the job of acting.

Dr. Benjamin Weiss: Julie's dad who is a doctor. He is a very good doctor and everyone respects him. He is very close to Julie. Julie's father sent Julie to her mothers aunts house but wouldn't come with because he said there were people relying on him.

Settings: Vienna, Austria and New York, New York in 1938.

Plot:

• Exposition: When Julie waits for her father to come from home from work.
• Rising Action: Julie finds out that Hitler was coming to where she lived.
• Climax: Julie's family is at acted by the Nazis.
• Falling Action: Julie's father sends her to New York, New York to live with her mother's sister Clara.
• Resolution: Julie finds out why her mother and Aunt Clara never talked to each other.

Author Review: Barry is an non-fiction and historical fiction writer. Some of his historical fiction series are Dear America, My Name is America, and Royal Diaries. After the book An American Hero: The True Story Of Charles Lindburgh he was interviewed about his many documentaries one being ABC's "The Centry"