Cage

Love it

I am reading this book in school and it is great. It really gives you a chance to know what it was like during the hollacaust. Very sad but i highly recommend it. It will make you cry when you see what these people went throug.

Ruth Sender

I met this author last year. My teacher is really good friends with her. She is so nice. She even recited her poem "Why?" for us. Memorized!!

Great Read had to read for school but i loveed it

Great book

.highly recommended-thrilling

i must say i am more interested in fiction but this book changed my mind. The captive details and the personalities of the main character was embracing and inspiring to all ages

This book is really great if you are intrested in the Holcaust and learning about how they was treated

Tori

Very very very emotional but very very good

Love this book

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LOVE..LOVE..LOVE!!!

I've read this book about about 6 times since I was in Middle School, and 10 years later it STILL makes me cry. This is one of the best stories of strength I have ever read.

holocaust scary but book excellence.

We have to read this for school, parts of the book needed a bit more detail, but i enjoyed reading it. its intense and scary, it shows exaxly how the holocaust was. but still a great book.h

Great book!

If you like books about the holocaust then this is the book for you. I was drawn into this book and finished it in less than 12 hours. It was great

not worth it

i had to read this for school and couldn't even finish it.

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A good read

I really enjoyed the middle and end portions of the book, but the beginning could be very boring.

Amazing!!!!!!!!:)

The cage by Ruth Minsky Sender, is a heartbreaking story. I absoulutely loved this book! It was inspiring, deep, and amazing. She fought for her family ( mother and her brothers), she even protected those she barely knew, her friends, and her dignity. I felt she included so many details that i could imagine each word i read. Ruth's true story made me cry and cry and cry... and at the end, i smiled. She lived to have her own family of kids and a husband. She deserves praise and applause!

Pure Luck

Elie Wiesel, Thomas Blatt, Filip Muller, David Faber, and Viktor Frankl were holocaust survivors. Over 6 million innocent lives were taken during the World War II by the Nazis all over Europe. But these people were the few who decided to write about their experiences in the genocide. The Cage is about a holocaust survivor, Ruth Minsky Sender, and her side of the story. I thought this book was mediocre because I had a notion that Riva was very "lucky" compared to other concentration camp survivors. I was looking forward to more of a trill, suspense, and more brutal struggles. There were indeed, trill, suspense and struggles, just not enough for me. I felt the main character, Riva, was a strong and caring. She had to step up to the plate and take care of her brothers through the ghetto. Have you ever felt like you needed someone to be there for you when you were discouraged or struggling? I think the author is trying to communicate to her audience to stick together to your close ones during complicated situations, and by doing that, you will have support, encouragement, and of course, company. I remember during PE, we were running a large distance and I was about to give up towards the end but my friends talked me through to go on, and finish. "I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders," a Jewish proverb. I say this is a good read but not a great one.

One of the better Holocaust accounts.

I thought it was a good book. I'm assuming it's a memoir of the author's life (once I read her biography on Wikipedia). This book sounds vaguely familiar and I believe I have read it before a long time ago but nevertheless I thought I might as well read it again. It's a small book with less than 200 pages and I was so interested and engrossed in it that it took me several hours to finish it. I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next, I wanted to know how she managed to survive through the entire ordeal and still manage to keep hoping and to keep living. Riva is one of the most strongest characters I have ever read so far.

I admired Riva for having to take care of her brothers through the hardships of living in the ghetto. Then having to be forcefully separated, she had to survive on her own and she never lost hope. It's as if she drew strength from losing her mother to give her the will to stay alive. Although the situation was always bleak and survival is never guaranteed, it was amazing to see how Riva managed to continue to hope even in the face of this kind of adversity.

There were a few things with this novel that I did not quite agree with. First I noticed it's somewhat catered to children and I sort of have to wonder about that. I realized children should be taught about this moment in history but I think this book really should be catered towards teens as this story surrounded Riva in her teenage years. It just seems to make more sense. Also, I found the flow of the narration to be a little jumpy throughout the first half of the book. It was first one major event then it just skips directly to another there wasn't real flow to put the two together into one smooth transition, it felt almost as if it was the writing was rather haphazard.

Overall though, a touching Holocaust story and not one to be missed. The story tells you that without hope, there really is nothing to live for and it's a lesson to learn for everyone in future generations to come.

Becky BBy:)

Well this book is pretty kool cause it's touching and stuff you know emagine you ere "Riva" the stuff she had to go threw it really emotional ike how they just took her mom and her Favorite tree and your brother just died and the sun is still shining she a mom no not a teenager no more poor "Riva" all the stuff she went threw???:(
Love,
Becky:)

Highly Recommended!

this is one of the best books i've ever read about this subject. very well done. i bought it in the 7th grade and many years later its still a good book.

AWESOME BOOK!!

My teacher is reading 4 chapters of this book to the class everyday. It is soo sad! It reallly touches your heart and makes you feel what it was like to be a Jew in Polland.

Outstanding!

The book Cage is about a girl named Riva'Ruth Minskey Sender' and how she survived the Holocaust. Some parts make you want to cry. Like when her daughter was crying because she saw her friends grandparents, it reminded her that she didnt have any because they were killed. But Im not going to tell you the rest. My favorite part in the book is when ever she or her mother said, 'As Long as there is Life there is Hope.' If you like this book then read her next book, 'To Life.'

A reviewer

The Cage is a wonderful book that will touch your heart and make you truly see what some victims of the Holocaust went through. Ruth Minsky Sender' sad story is (as I just wrote) sad, but it teaches a very important lesson- not to let go of hope.