Book Portfolio Qtr. 2

Twenty and Ten is written by Claire Huchet Bishop, published in 1952. In this book Sister Gabriel learns that bravery isn’t just about being physically tough, it’s about having your heart set in the right spot. In this book, all the students, who were French, had to help hiding the 10 Jewish students.


Bravery isn’t about being tough, your heart needs to be set in the right place. Sister Gabriel takes the Jewish children in, even though she knows what would happen if the Nazis found out she was hiding Jewish kids. The twenty French students realize that there is more to a person than simple religion, and they start sharing food with them and things like that. When the Nazi’s come, Sister Gabriel hides the kids in a cave under ground so they won’t be found. You can be brave, but if your hearts not set in the right spot, no one will remember you.


Life is about more than just being brave; your heart needs to be in the right place. Like with Hitler, he thought he was doing some great thing for everyone and getting rid of the people who didn’t believe what he did. He killed everyone who wasn’t a Nazi and didn’t share the same beliefs as them Hitler and the Nazi’s would put the Jewish people in concentration camps. This is so important because what Hitler di was wrong, and it was frowned upon. He ended up committing suicide and taking cyanide capsules.


Claire Huchet Bishop was anti-semitism, which means you’re against the hostility towards Jewish people, weather or not she was actually Jewish, no one knows. If she hadn’t been, the book would have probably been different. She was biased because she was leaning towards the Jews. Had she been a Nazi, the story would have swung more towards the pro-Nazi side than the pro-Jew side. Claire Huchet Bishop was brave because she stood up for what the Jewish people thought and she didn’t think they should have been treated how they were.


Bravery is about more than simply being tough, you need to know right from wrong, and your hearts got to be in the right place. In Twenty and Ten, sister Gabriel that’s the Jewish children in even though she knows she could be killed if the Nazi’s found out. She knew the kids didn’t deserve to die because of something as simple as religion, so she helped them and kept them safe.