The Cage

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Summary: A teen's view of The Cage
Review: I recommend this novel to everyone. Fulled with suspense and intrigue, it really kept my interst. I was not expecting this to happen. I had to choose a novel to read for a book report for English class. I picked this one beacuse I have read other books about the Holocaust and have found them interesting. After reading this novel, I have discovered that it is unlike any other novel about the Holocaust. I learned much more about the Holocaust and recieved much more insight into this topic from this book than from any other one. This novel is about Riva, a young girl living in a ghetto during WWII. Although it is a sad topic, I enjoyed learning about life in a ghetto. It was very interesting to learn how the characters could survive day to day in such horrible conditions. Riva survives the loss of her brother and mother and a deportation to a concentration camp. She becomes a mother to her young brothers. All these trials and tribulations make Riva a much stronger person. Through out the book, I felt her stong will and motivation contributed to her character. I grew to love Riva and felt as if I was part of her family. I felt depressed if something bad happened to her and happy when she had success. I recommend this book because you can clearly witness the change and growth, both postive and negative, in one character due to the Holocaust.

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Summary: The Cage is an Amazing Book
Review: The Cage is an amazing an very powerful book actually written by a lady named Riva Minska and translateds from Yiddish by Ruth Minsky Sender. The Cage is about the Holocaust taking part in a girl named Riva's life. Riva suffers her Mother's death and her Brother's death. Riva surrvives in the Ghetto for many years and finnally gives up and leaves with a group of close friends. What will happen to Riva next? You will only know if you read The Cage a 264 page novel which has touched and broken many hearts.

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Summary: The Cage from a teens point of view
Review: When I was in the 7th grade, my teacher, Ms. McKay, picked a book for us to read about the Holocaust. Our whole class groaned when she said this because we didn't really like to read. The book she chose was "The Cage" by Ruth M. Sender. When I started to read the book, I found it very boring, but after a chapter or 2, it got so good, I didn't want to put it down. I think it was the only book I have ever read where the whole story will be tatooed in my mind, like that number on Riva's arm; #55082. This is a very good book, despite it's plot and the effects of the Holocaust and I believe that anybody over 13 would enjoy this book. I am now 16 years old, and I still claim that this book is my favorite of all time. I think everybody should read it, just once....

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Summary: I think that you should read this book
Review: For a WWII unit my 8th grade class was assigned to read a holocaust book and I just picked this one because I didn't want to spend a lot of time looking for a book and the book I picked was the cage. The book I read was the cage by Ruth Minsky Sender. I thought that it was a great book and I really liked the book a lot It was about a girl named Riva who is thirteen and her mother was taken away by the nazi's and then Riva has to take care of her brothers. Riva and her brother go into hiding in their basement when they reaize that they are going to be found out about sooner or later so they get their remaining neighbors and belonging together and they go to the train station where they bored a train.for three or four days without getting out of the train to get something to eat,go to the bathroom,or get. They finally arive at the concentration camp and they are treated like dirt just because of their relgion. Riva was seperated from her brothers and taken to work in a factory then soon after she became sick and she wasn't able to work in the factory her arm was amputated but she still was determined to try her hardest to survive the horrible ordeal and to find her family when she was freed from the concentration camp I think that everyone should read this book because it teaches a good leason that noone should be judged by their relgion, race hair, eyes or any other feature that people may not like someone for

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Summary: this book is no good
Review: The Cage was written by Ruth Minsky Sender. It is horrible. The story was just like most books about the WWII involving jews. The book is not original in any way.It does make you feel sad. Sad that you have read it because it is a lousy book.If you want to read a good book about the Holocaust, you shoud read Night.

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Summary: The Cage
Review: As a part of my eighth grade Language Arts class, I was assigned to read The Cage by Cooney along with many other books. I started reading it and I couldn't put it down. I just kept reading and reading until I had finished it. I finished in one day and I didnt stop reading the whole time. It was a great book and I highly reccomend this book to anyone who is willing to examine the Holocaust. This book answers questions viewers may have along with many other random fact...)

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Summary: The Cage
Review: When I first saw a copy of The Cage I became very interested by the picture on the cover. I then went to my teacher and said that I had chose to read this book, The Cage. I became very surprised when he told me that he had read it. It shocked me because this just did not look like a really popular novel. As I began to read the book, I was somewhat confused. The story started out as very happy, not what one would expect from a book about the Holocaust. After about a chapter or so, I became more intrigued by a sudden switch to years back from when the story had originally started. The more I read on I found it hard to stay interested because it always seemed to take a while before the book had something exciting happen. When I had finished the book, I honestly felt that I had enjoyed it. Overall, the book was not bad, it just lacked a few things such as excitement and suspense to help build the overall plot. I think that the switch from present to past and back to the present helped make up for some of the creativity that would have helped give the novel more of it's own individuality.

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Summary: A lost life
Review: What would it be like to wake up, and know that a human race just like yours is killing your people, and discriminating against them because of their faith? What would it be like to have to wear a star telling people I am a Jew, be free to treat me any way your please? What would it be like to know your family is starving and sick, but there is nothing you can do for them? Many people, no matter what their race or religion ask questions like that. In the book The Cage, by Ruth Minesky Sender, those questions and many others are answered. The Cage is a gripping autobiography of Riva, a young Jewish woman caring for what is left of her torn apart family during the Holocaust. Riva's story opened a new picture of the Holocaust for me. It describes in detail the inhumanity of living in a ghetto. The Jews had no choice in what they did, and they weren't allowed to contradict what the Germans said. Through all the hysteria of the war Riva lives, hopes, and dreams on her mother's last words to her "as long as there is life there is hope ". Unlike the very popular Diary of Anne Frank, which told the story of a teenage girl in hiding, this story is written by a survivor of the Holocaust who went through the torture of concentration camps. Riva didn't have enough food or the right nutrients. She developed gangrene, and had her fingers amputated, and she was whipped if the Nazis thought she did something wrong. For me reading this book made me feel like I was one of the millions of Jews in Nazi concentration camps, and ghettos. Anyone, young or old no matter what their interest would be deeply touched by this incredible book.

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Summary: Remember WWII
Review: Ruth Minsky-Sender, a new writer about a historical time. A story told from a Jewish survivor of the Holocust, during World War II. Excellent detail of the day to day life of a Jewish family while they live in a ghetto. This book tells an enlightening story of one girls courage to stay strong and live no matter what happened. Throughout all of this horrific time you could see the good in some people who tried to make it right. The girl in the story spent almost all of her teenage years in the ghetto during the war. She took care of her remaining family and survived to tell her story so others understand that this could happen again if people don't learn from the first mistake.

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Summary: Riviting
Review: this is the best story i have ever read in my life. it is the only story that i was so afraid that i wouldn't stop crying that i didn't finish until a week later. i can still remember her number#55082, the story was sad and compelling. it makes you want to read all of Mrs. Sender's stories. that was my first holacost book, and it's been my favorite ever since. ever since i've read this book i've been truly interested in WW2. i cried when Laibele died, i wept when Yankele had to leave with Fabi. and when momma left, my heart exploded. and how the german lady treated her, i felt like killing her.but my heart softened when the German lady let her write the poems and helped her walk with the TB and everything, i wanted to hug and kiss her cheeks. this was the best story that i have ever read. it's the only story that i will not take out of my personal library, which usually changes every year after i get new books.this story should be with the classics and should have been given and award for best young adult novel. if you ever want a book that'll tear your heart to piece one moment, but make your heart warm the next minute, this is your book.