The Cage

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Summary: I loved it !
Review: When I read this book I learned how violent and unforgiving world war two was. What saddens me even more is that it happened to thoudands of people and that it was unescapable to so many. This book showed me how strong love can be even in unexplanible situations.

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Summary: Great book!
Review: I'm not finished with this book yet, but so far it is wonderful. It is a little sad so far, but in the end I know it will be happy. I think this is a very good author and should be rewarded for writing such a wonderful book. And she is right, where there is life, there is hope. When a family with a youn girl named Riva are captured by the Nazis because they are Jews, Riva has to fight for her own rights. The want's to survive and makes a vow to live in the getto, and in the camps.

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Summary: A Jewish Girl in the Holocaust
Review: This is a thrilling bok about one woman's perspective on the Holocaust.... Riva's family is very important to her. When her mother is sent away to labor camps, Riva protects, and helps her brothers live through the Holocaust in the Ghettos. They are forced into hiding, and are soon taken away to Aschwitz. Once there, her brothers are taken away, and she is all alone. With paper and pencil, writing poems, she is able to stay alive, along with small acts of kindness.....

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Summary: The Cage
Review: The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender was a wonderful novel. It was about Riva, a young girl who's childhood was taken from the Nazis. It tells of her life in the ghettos of Lodz, Poland, and the concentration camps. Even though it was sad to read, it kept me interested and I couldn't put it down. The part that really touched me was when Riva's mother died and she became a mother to her brothers. This book makes you see more of the evils of the Holocaust and how it impacted the life of a young girl. It also shows how it turned Jewish people's lives around. After reading this book, I have learned that you should never take things for granted, like family or even sunshine, because people like Riva lost the people they loved and even their lives.

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Summary: The Best Book Around
Review: This book was about the best book I have ever read. It helps you learn about the camps and the ghetto's. It was so sad at time I could hardly read it. But it was also very good too! Riva's story is so amazing you cant put the book down after a while. Riva wrights poems and letters to her family. Her youngest brother died but she surrvives. I highly recommed it!!

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Summary: A heart warming story.
Review: I think "The cage" is a wonderfuland inspireing story. Riva, a real life jewish girl, shows and tells about life in Lodz, Poland and in the ghetto. She overcomes death of her brother and the loss of her mother and role-model, as well as the hardships of concentration camp. Then when she dosent think things could get any worse, she gets blood poisoning from a cut she got from her labor in the mines. When she thinks all hope is lost, she realizes that all hope really isn't lost- she recieves medical treatment in a hospital that dosen't welcome Jews. She strives and gets well and is one day freed. She then tells her daughter, Emily, "As long as there is life, there is hope." This book is undoubtly my favorite and is recommended for everyone: young and old!

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Summary: "The Cage" Review
Review: This book was a captivating story of a young girl forced to leave the bearings of her childhood, and forced to mother her three young brothers. It shows strength and bonding between each character and the risk one will take for a loved one. It shows great feelings for human kind and although each person were facing their own hardships in trying hard to survive, they willingly tried to keep eachother alive. Once the supportive and optomistic mother dies, the eldest sister is left to support her family and keep them alive from the evil that lies within the soilders bodies. More moving times, such as a young brother choses to bravely not eat for one week, in order to recieve illegal and rare medicine for his dieing sister, help you understand how close one family can get, and the loving ties that keep them together. You also find hearts in even the greatest of evils, as a german soilder does her best to save a young girl in a concentration camp from a deadly disease. This book is a wonderful story of hard times, joy, death, and bravery, all celebrated together.

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Summary: A good book, but could be a little better
Review: The Cage was a very good and moving book, but at times it got a little irritating. Like when the only thing she does is sit in the doctor's "bunk" and complain how hard her life is. Even though being in a labor camp was probably hard enough.. I'm sure that other people in that camp were suffering FAR worse than she was, so she should just stop complaining and be grateful that she was spaired because she "wrote poetry".

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Summary: An excellent book!
Review: For Social Studies, I was to choose a book about the Holocaust to read and do a project on. I didn't really want to read The Cage because it sounded dumb. But because I was forced to read it, I did and I became very interested. I loved the book. It was very inspiring and I hope to purchase it for myself because I would love to read it again. It even made me cry! So sad; so good.

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Summary: The Cage
Review: The beginning of The Cage was very interesting and kept me hooked. But after chapter 30 or so it was just dragging on about her finger being throbbing. All in all it was a fairly decent book.