Is Berlin Boxing Club appropriate?
Is Berlin Boxing Club appropriate?
This book is historical fiction which I love especially when it is well written. I highly recommend The Berlin Boxing Club for both children and adults. If a book about boxing can interest me (since I have very little interest in the sport) then, it is a good book.
Is there a sequel to Berlin Boxing Club?
The Berlin Boxing Club – Part II: A Prayer: Uniform Shirts and Rotten Apples; The Secret History of Jewish Boxers; and Stern vs. Strasser Summary & Analysis.
What happened at the end of the Berlin Boxing Club?
Near the end of the story, Karl’s father is stabbed in the stomach with a piece of broken glass and separates from Karl and his sister. A few days later, the family is informed that his father had been arrested.
How many pages is Berlin Boxing Club?
404
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780061579707 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Publication date: | 10/23/2012 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 404 |
Who are the main characters in the Berlin boxing club?
The Berlin Boxing Club Characters
- Karl Stern. A teen-age Jewish boy who learns to box during the start of WWII.
- Sigmund Stern. Karl’s father who ran an art gallery.
- Rebecca Stern. Karl’s mother.
- Hildy Stern. Karl’s Jewish-looking younger sister.
- Herr Boch.
- The Wolf Pack.
- Frau Kessel.
- Greta Hauser.
What is the Berlin Boxing Club about?
The Berlin Boxing Club tells the story of a secular Jewish 14-year-old’s struggles in 1930s Germany. Neither his Aryan looks, his own dislike of Jews, his gentile grandmother, nor the fact that his family isn’t observant can save Karl Stern – or his family.
What is the conflict in the Berlin boxing club?
Internal Conflict: Man against Self: Karl has to balance his boxing dreams with his obligation to keep his family out of harm’s way. External Conflict: Man against Man: Hitler has got almost all of Germany against Jews and Karl’s family has to find a way to the U.S.
Who is the main character in the Berlin boxing club?
Karl Stern is the main character and hero of the novel. He is 14 when the novel begins and 18 at its conclusion. He lives in Berlin, Germany at the beginning of Hitler’s reign.
What does Karl like to do in his free time Berlin boxing Club?
Up until now, Karl has most desired to be a cartoonist, and the novel is interspersed with his portraits of different people—both boxing celebrities and people he knows—and with excerpts from Winzig und Spatz, a popular German comic book. Karl makes up his own strips from this comic book to entertain Hildy.
What is the theme of the Berlin Boxing Club?
Life in Nazi Germany is a major theme of the novel as Karl describes the increasing regulations and restrictions put on Jews during Hitler’s rule. Also touched on are the ways the persecution of the Jews hurts the Stern family in particular.
How old is Karl Stern Berlin Boxing Club?
Fourteen-year-old
Fourteen-year-old Karl Stern has never thought of himself as a Jew. But to the bullies at his school in Naziera Berlin, it doesn’t matter that Karl has never set foot in a synagogue or that his family doesn’t practice religion.
What does Karl like to do in his free time Berlin Boxing Club?
