Echo- Text to World

    I am reading a book called Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan. This book starts with a young boy Otto (50 years before WW2) who decides to go into the forbidden woods just so he could win hide and go seek. He to pass the time decides to read a book about three princesses who were abandoned and he soon finds out the story is true and the three princesses's story hasn't ended and the only way to go back to their home in the castle is if only their souls leave the forbidden woods so they put their souls into a harmonica which takes a really long journey many years later. The magic harmonica is first found in Germany in 1933 by Fredierch Schmidt who instead of going to school works at a harmonica factory and his father is a jew-lover which gets Fredierch into trouble with the law then it switches to two boys in 1935 in Philadephia, USA. Michael and Franklin are Orphan brothers who are adopted by a rich/wealthy woman (Mrs. Sturbridge) who lost her son a few years earlier. Mrs. Sturbridge asked for a girl but got two boys back and was going to keep Franklin but not Michael because before her father had died he had changed his will that if Mrs. Sturbridge doesn't adopt a child within one year she would lose her wealth and money. So Michael makes a deal that if he joins the Hoxie Harmonica band he would leave Mrs. Sturbridge, so Mrs. Sturbridge agrees and he goes and buys a harmonica (it ends up being the magical one) and tries out for the Harmonica band.

    This book relates to the real world because in the early  1940's Japanese people were sent to camps after the Pearl Harbor bombing. Americans were afraid there were Japanese spies that were going to attack again and they thought there were spies. Jewish Concentration camps were created by Hitler because of his hatred for Jewish people. This relates to Echo because this gives the point of view from Germany and what it was like and in America what it was like for the Japanese. Finally, I liked how it gave a certain point of view from the fictional characters in this historical fiction book.

      In Conclusion, Echo is a 4 part story with a harmonica that travels from Trossigen, Germany where Fredierch Schmidt donated it to an Orphanage in Pennsylvania. Then Michael Flannery after being adopted donated it to Ivy Lopez in Fresno California. Then she gave it Kenny Yamamato an  air force soldier who barley survived world war 2. This book talks about world war 2 but with fictional characters. Finally, this book makes me think about how bad it was for the soldiers and the Jewish in World War 2.