All But My Life Part 2: Blake Young

I Really enjoyed the second half of all but my life. It was without a doubt the saddest story I have ever read though. Throughout the story of Gerdas journey through different countries and struggles under the Nazi's rules there are several times that Gerda and others with her only manage to survive because of luck. The best example of this luck that Followed Gerda was near the end of the war when Gerda and the remaining survivors were locked in the building and the Nazis put a bomb on the outside to kill them all. Luckily The bomb did not go off and all the people were saved by the American troops along with the red cross. Another situation that Gerda was thrown into was when her dad told her to wear boots even though it was June. If Gerda's father had not told her to wear the snow boots, Gerda would not have had ay chance of surviving. Wether or not luck had anything to do with Gerda's survival, she survived and that is in my eyes a miracle. I wish Gerda could have gotten through the story and still had her friends and family with her but I guess she was fortunate to have gotten herself through it. Even though this was a tremendously sad story, I think that it was the perfect book for us to read during the Holocaust unit.