1. The CageBy Ruth Minsky Sender
Zach De Brino
Zach Gladstone
Ryan Gleicher

2. Symbols

3. SYMBOL #1 SYMBOL TO REPRESENT: WORD: Hope Page: 257
Hope and confidence is what drives us the people to live. Even in the horrible conditions of a labor camp, hope from people keep each other alive. The hope of living another day, the confidence to speak up for whats right is what drives them.

4. SYMBOL #2 SYMBOL TO REPRESENT: WORD: Labor Camp Page: 107
When people heard about labor camps they were scared which is my symbol. They were scared that when they go to labor camps as a family they will be separated. The nazi’s promised they would keep them together, but it would most likely not be true. They also are scared that they will be brought to concentration camps or death camps, which would mean the nazi’s are lying.

5. Character Questions

6. Character Question #1
We least like the commander, Madam Commandant, in the concentration camp. She is so selfish and cruel. We believe that they should not kill and torture totally innocent people as this commander did, as she showed. A character that I would “like” is not a indignant individual like this one.

7. Character Question #2
The first aid lady, Katia’s, actions to Riva we believe were very kind. She was unlike any other of the people at the camp Riva was in. Katia let Riva take a warm bath for the first time in who knows how long. We’d guess it was the best bath Riva had ever had after what she had been through. Not to mention the first aid lady gave Riva nice food. Unlike the nazi’s who barely gave any food.

8. Plot

9. 1. Exposition
At first they are in Lodz, Poland. It is a nice town where everybody is friendly to each other. Riva, Laibele, Motele, Moishele, and their Mama all live together. Then one day when the Nazis invade all their non-Jewish friends become Nazis and hate them. Then their town of Lodz is dark and getting worse.

10. 2. Rising Action
The action starts in the beginning of the book where regular jewish families are stripped of their belongings from the nazis where the families face disease and/or starvation. Throughout the book, family and friends die in the ghetto they live in. Then they are brought to a camp to work all day long. The camps took many things away from the family but they did not take away their love for one another and their hope in their heart. That is the bigger message that the author is sending out.

11. 3. Climax
Riva gets cut and then gets blood poisoning. Without surgery from a hospital Riva will die. But, they might send her to a death camp first because. This is really a problem for all the prisoners because the poems that she is writing really spark up the energy of the prisoners in the camp and in a way it gives people a will to live, fight and keep hope in their hearts. If Riva dies everyone in the camp will be so upset the can’t work, so the camp won’t have workers and the prisoners will die.

12. 4. Falling Action
Riva’s blood poisoning was getting so bad to the point where she was going to die. Madam Commandant made the decision after the doctor begged her to let Riva to go to the hospital for surgery. This really helped the whole conflict. Now Riva would be able to survive a little longer in the camp without being killed.

13. 5. Resolution
At the end the Russians came and liberated the camp that Riva was in. Everyone in the camp got to leave and live a happy live. Unfortunately when Riva went home all that was there was some Polish person who got rid of Riva’s belongings. Riva was able to start a family now that she is free.