2) What is prejudice? where in the world have you seen prejudice? what are the effects of prejudice?

prejudice is an unreasonable reasons that makes people to decided to dislike someone or somethings. I have seen the prejudice in the news or like in the history books. for exmple many years ago the white people were ignored the black people because of their skin color was different and they make the black people to work and make them to slave. I think the prejudice made people more worth and hurt people alot.

1) What do you know already about the Holocaust

Holocaust is an event in which there is a lot of destruction and many people are killed, especially one caused by war. it affected many Jewish people, and it killed alot of people from Jewish and the people who helped the Jewish. almost 600 million jewish people died because of Holocaust and many million poeple were suffered and tortured by the German.

A boat to nowhere- Theme

I think the theme of this book is that the person who live with people can changed. Kien is the character who changed in this story. First he was mean to the villagers but he started to change.
I think he changed because he stayed with the villagers everyday and he knew that if he respect someone that someone will respect him, too. when he rescued Big Tam he knew that he can help people and rescue someone.

A Boat to nowhere - setting

This book takes place in the Vietnamese village, sea, thailand, and the island named Out cast. First in the book it takes place in the village. the characters were lived in the village but when the Kien and the three strangers came to the village, their life changed. Kien, Mai, Loc, and the Grandfather ran away from the strangers. they went to the Thailand but the people in the land didn't want them to stay. So the four of them came to the middle of the ocean, again.