It would have to be enough." Is it enough?īaruch Hashem (Hebrew) - literally, "Blessed be the name," or "Praise God"īrukhim Haboim (Yiddish) - Welcome. What is the significance of the possessions that Halina has with her in the forest? At the end of the book she says, " Dayenu.Do you think Halina and Reuven should feel remorse about the death of the German soldier? Why or why not?.How are bravery, faith, and luck related? Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, but Hermia loves Lysander. Egeus has with him his daughter, Hermia, and two men, Lysander and Demetrius. if I'm not unlucky, then I have to make myself brave enough to help others, even if I'm not brave." Halina responds by saying she isn't sure she can believe in God, but she can believe in luck. In the palace in ancient Athens, Duke Theseus and his fianc Hippolyta are planning their wedding festivities when Egeus, an Athenian nobleman, arrives. Just before Halina and Reuven set off to rescue Batya, Reuven says, "My brothers were brave but they were unlucky.What do you think of Reuven's insistence on first trying to find his brothers, and later waiting for Halina, after she and Batya don't return from the food expedition? Several characters in Escaping into the Night do come back, yet others never do.Do you believe it is ethical for the group to take food and supplies from the surrounding peasant villages? Why or why not? Before the food expedition, Batya raises questions about ethics.Is there sexism in the forest? How are the girls and women treated differently from the men? Do you believe this is acceptable? Why or why not?.When I see the sun rise in the morning, I put my hand on the trunk of a tree and think only about what I have to do to stay alive for one more day." Why do you think she says this? At night sometimes, after the girls are asleep, I think about my husband and the time before the forest. we must live for the present, for each day. Tante Rosa tells Halina, "We don't talk about the past.Moskin says, "There are times to fight and other times where the only thing we can do is to pray?" Do you agree or disagree? What would you do? How well do you think you would be able to survive in the forest? Fiozmann, choose to go back to the ghetto because they can't take the harsh living conditions.
Yet many people who escape to the forest, like Mrs. One of the positive aspects of Halina's experience is her kinship with nature and love of the woods.Discuss how each of them examines his or her faith (or lack thereof) in relation to the history of the Holocaust and the events in the book. The three main characters in the book, Halina, Reuven, and Batya, all have differing notions of faith.What do each of these relationships signify to Halina? How do her feelings towards each of these people change as Halina changes? Discuss Halina's relationships with the various adults in the book: her mother, her father, Georg, and Tante Rosa.Wasn't thirteen the age when you were supposed to stop pretending?" How does Halina grow from "pretending" to accepting her reality? How do other characters in the book pretend in order to escape or deal with their reality? In Chapter 1, Halina says, "I was tired of pretending not to care when the guards hit someone with their rifles, tired of pretending not to notice when I heard gunshots in the streets.
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