Letter to my author

Dear Bartoletti,

I have recently read your book “The Boy Who Dared” and I must say that I believe that you did an excellent job on representing Helmuth in the Nazi-controlled Germany era. Your interpretation of what life was like as a Hitler youth in the prewar rise of the Nazi party in Germany. The way that you pay such close attention to detail in your book impresses me. When you describe the surroundings of your characters I can feel myself there in the story as if it was happening to me. I admire the drama you create to enhance the story as a whole. I can feel the anger or fear that the characters feel in the story as if it they were my own experiences. The way that you can project your intelligence into the characters of the story impresses me as well, such as the conversations between the characters were they go in depth and project their opinions. You capture the pain and unfair treatment of the Jewish people during the holocaust. I felt sorrow for those people while reading your book and it may have given me a new understanding of the pain and persecution that these people were forced to endure. I see that you have much imagination to craft such a great fictional story out of a story that happened in real life. The fact that you created a new look on the accounts of a young man that became a hero in a time where there was a such a shortage of heroes and nobles impresses me the most.

You as a writer impress me in many ways. The way that you started as a small town girl and became a English teacher that would inspire many young students to take a larger interest in writing. You woke up early to write and then went off to teach your English class. I'm sure that your interest in English and understanding of this language lend many of your students to further their own understanding and maybe even take up a career in writing. You started out as a short story reading and writer, to a picture book writing to writing truly great fictional book based off of real history changing events. Now you teach classes at universities and workshops teaching and continuing to inspire future writers for the next generation of great books and novels. The fact that there is no end to your imagination by the reasoning that you can take any historic event and create a great fictional story that shows its effects on the people how had to live it impresses me to no end. You truly are, in my opinion, who of the best fictional writers when it comes down to writing fictional stories about historic events. With this book you have inspired me to read more books all together. You are truly one of the best authors whose work I have read and I am very eager to read more stories that you have wrote over your years as a writer. Thank you for giving us a classic with “The Boy Who Dared.”

Sincerely,

Walker Upton

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This is what it looked like in Germany years before the war started while Germany was in a state of great depression due to the money they had to pay for losing the first world war. This is the scene of Germany during the book "The Boy Who Dared".

This is the symbol of the socialist party that Hitler leads and uses his powers to change the views of the Jewish people and persecute for no particular reason.

This is a picture of children that are sent to a Hitler youth camp after Hitler comes top power in Germany and it is a social norm for all the children to attend a Hitler youth camp.

This is the man who rose to power and took control of the peoples opinion to persecute the Jewish people and make them hated by the German general public.

This is a SS soldier like the one that the main character's mother is dating during the book.

This is a Jewish shop is the story where all Jewish shops were closed down and boycotted because of the things that Hitler was saying about the Jews.

Here is an SS soldier writing on the window of a Jewish shop telling everyone that this is a Jewish shop and you shouldn't buy anything there.

In the middle is the main character that this book is based on.

This is the author of this book that is based off the true events that occurred to Helmuth.

This is a picture of a camp that Helmuth might have been kept at along with other traders and Jews.

This is a picture of a guillotine that may have been used to bring this book to a tragic end...