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Summary: If I Should Die Before I Wake
Review: If I Should Die Before I Wake Harcourt Brace, 1994, 225 pp.
Han Nolan $18.00 ISBN:0-15-23840-x"You must want to live more than anything else because here that is all there is--life, or death. But mostly death." Another Jewish prisoner is talking to Chana about how to survive in Auschwitz, one of the worst concentration camps ever. Chana and her Bubbe are the only survivors from her family so far in World War II.
Stated above is part of Hilary's "Unconscious Life" that she lives while she's unconscious during her coma. She is in a coma as a result of a motorcycle accident with her Neo-Nazi boyfriend and is staying at a Jewish hospital because it was the closest one to the site of the accident, hence her boyfriend doesn't visit her.
I thought this was an awesome book. Han Nolan packs the books with both facts and experiences that I wanted to keep on reading the book after I finished it. She made history a reality to me while I gasped in anticipation to read the next chapter. Reading If I Should Die Before I Wake has been a great experience for me to learn more about the Holocaust.
I would definitely recommend this book to others because it has an extremely powerful impact about how interested people will be in history. I'd recommend this book to ages twelve years and older who like realistic fiction stories and don't mind gory details.
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Summary: An amazing book on what we all need to remember
Review: Han Nolan has written an amazing book on something that some people don't want to believe ever happened:the Holocaust. 16 year-old Hilary Burke-a Neo-Nazi- is injured terribly in a motorcycle accident. Her boyfriend, Brad, also a Neo-Nazi getting off with only a few scratches and bruises. As she slips in and out of consciousness, she falls into the life of Chana, a jewish girl who is wrapped up in the times of the Holocaust. Her terrifying life as a young Jew helps her realize what she is doing(hanging Jews in trees and beating them up) is absolutely wrong. When Hilary is telling the chapter, all she can see is a 'Grandmaw', the actual Chana. Chana helps her realize that what she is seeing is her life as a child. At the end of the book, Chana's only living relative, her sister Nadzia, comes to tell Hilary something that hurts them all...especially after what Hilary(Chana) has just been through in her dreams. To find out more, I won't mess up this review and tell you what happens next. You have to read the book... Recommended for: 13+
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Summary: Great for Younger Readers
Review: I had some mixed feelings about this book. For one thing, I pretty much predicted the plot just from reading the back cover. Also, Nolan's language just didn't move me the way some authors can. That said, this is still an extraordinary book, and I know it would've amazed and inspired me had I read it at a younger age, back before I knew much about the Holocaust. So, if you are [or you know] a young adult reader with little knowledge of the Holocaust who might develop an interest in it, I'd certainly recommend this book.
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Summary: Graphic, gripping....a must for today's youth !
Review: The 1940's seem so far away to the teenagers of the 1990's. The atrocities of WWII might seem distant and unreal -- some might even think that the Holocaust never actually happened. But it did, and we can't ever allow it to be forgotten! This brilliant novel serves as a way to educate and enlighten today's youth about the horrendous mistakes of the past. Hilary, one of the two main characters in "If I Should Die Before I Wake", is not only unaware of the extent of the hate towards Jews during WWII, she is actually reviving that hate as a member of a 1990's neo-nazi gang. The turning point in her young life is a motorcycle accident which leaves her comotose in a Jewish hospital. While comotose, she dreams about Chana, a young Polish girl who experiences all the horrors of being Jewish during WWII. Chana's story is compelling, detailed, and extremely historically accurate. The language in the beginning of the novel is so graphic that I actually had to put the book down and ask myself "Wow ! How could any person hate another person, someone they don't even know, as much as Hilary hated the Jews." But, that is the only time I put the book down, except to eat and sleep ! This is a wonderful novel for high school students in conjunction with studies on modern world history, tolerance and cultural sensitivity. It is a definite "hard-to-put-down" novel ! Nolan's depiction of Chana's life story is so gripping that the reader has a need to know what will happen to this yound girl, as well as how Chana's life will effect Hilary. This is not only a book that you read, it is a book that you think about and talk about for a long time after
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Summary: If I Should Die Before I Wake
Review: If I Should Die Before I Wake by Han Nolan is an excellent Holocaust book. It tells the story of an anti-Jew girl named Hilary, who, after being in an accident is placed in a Jewish hospital. With her Christian mother by her side, she struggles between life and death. Every once in a while she goes into a sleep where she dreams of being a Jewish girl named Chana living during the Holocaust. She endures the loss of her family and being sent to a concentration camp. When she wakes up, she realizes just how hard the Jews have it.
This book is written in a unique way of going back and forth between Hilary and Chana. It really is a great book and it deserves more than five stars.
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Summary: The best book about the Holocaust I've ever read!!!
Review: If I Should Die Before I Wake was the best book abou the Holocaust I've ever read! Told from the poin tof 14 year old Chana. Chana is a jewish girl who is ripped from her home and family and taken to a long line of concentration camps. Only to see her mother, father, and brother die. With the help of her grandmother, Bubbe, she is able to find the strength to go on . Even a Auswitch were people are brutally murdered everyday. And where everyday everyone wonders is it my turn to die today? This book really brought me to reality about the Holocaust and the awful things people faced. This book is very sad, I cried many times, and I would recommend it to anyone over 13. THIS IS A GREAT BOOK!!!
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Summary: an amazing insight to nazi interment camps
Review: i've read many holocaust realated titles in my 16 years but none have had such depth that "If I should die before I wake" you really felt as if you were there with chana and hilary you felt chana's love,pain,fear and frustration all while getting an insight into hilary's neo-nazi world. highly recomended by francesca
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Summary: If I Should Die Before I Wake
Review: When I first picked this book up, I looked at the cover. It was an amazing cover and to go with it, it had an amazing story! It starts with Hilary, a torn-up girl trying to run from her past and refusing to recognize her mother who had left her and her grandmother on an usual basis. She turns to neo-nazi members and finds comfort in them thinking that she finds a home there. However, while on a motorcycle, she was in an accident. While laying in a Jewish hospital bed, she begans fazing in and out, but she doesn't know if what she's seeing is real or not. Then she starts to go on a journey in someone else's shoes..........
This is an eye-opening book that will leave you with tears and a moral that proves to be true everyday.
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Summary: Good book
Review: I have to say I loved the book when i first read it. I thought the story dragged a little at the beginning but picked up once Chana and her family reached the ghetto. I have a huge complaint of the book however. Some of the better parts of this book appear to have been taken from another holocost book, the devil's arithmetic, Which was much better. It was a story of a girl who became Chaya who was taken to one of the camps. They had the whole thing about "remember" and Chaya stook by her old aunt who was wise and helped everyone around her, there are much more that i cant think of off the top of my head but notice any similaritys? I still gave it 3 stars though because it was an enjoyable read.
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Summary: Just amazing, there is nothing I can say to change my mind.
Review: "IF I should die before I wake" by Han Nolan is amazing! This story is tragic,compelling and just a tear-starter. The author has done a great job on it and I recommend it to everyone. As a reader I am very picky, but this book had just satisfied me to the MAX. I can't say nothing else but read and enjoy. This will probably be the all time best book I have read. (Not comparing to Harry Potters.)...Please read her other books like Born blue and send me down a miracle. They're just amazing. By S
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