The Boys In The Boat Book Report

From the time we were young we had friends. Making friendship was always an instinctive concept but we never knew where it would lead .In Alice Munro’s story “ The Found boat”, Eva, Carol, Frank, Bud and Clayton are a group of children that live in a small town and goes to the same school. In this story, the boat initiates a new stage in the relationships between the boys and the girls and how does the boat have an influence on their sexual awareness.

“When you get the rhythm in an eight, it’s pure pleasure to be in it. It's not hard work when the rhythm comes- that “swing” as they call it. I’ve heard men shriek out with delight when that swing came in an eight, it’s a thing they’ll never forget as long as they live.” -George Pocock

It’s 1931, and Germany is in a massive post World War I depression. The unemployment rate is at 70% and millions of Germans are jobless. People have lost hope and faith in their country, and Germany in itself is starting to lose respect worldwide. A glimmer of hope came when Berlin was chosen as the host city for the 1936 summer Olympics. This was two years prior to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor, and Germany was still under the rule of President Hindenburg. In an attempt to rejuvenate Germany, Hitler vowed that he would give every German citizen what they wanted. As Chancellor, Hitler promises the unsatisfied Germans an improved life

Throughout all books there is a common characteristic of their theme. This identifies the way this book will be seen by any of the readers. One of the biggest themes within Outliers is Human Nature and Self awareness. These ideas are huge thought this book and also in Boys in the Boat. With these characteristics we could be able to show how we truly are living our lives an how we can do what we dream of but how that is accomplished is a good idea. Within all people there is a level of self awareness that leads us to be who were are this along with our characteristics from human nature create each of us in how we live and how successful we end up being throughout our lives.

So Hitler took on the task of building new stadiums and rest houses for the athletes. They were big, lavish, and of course had giant swastikas down the sides. They were also in the perfect location, a small recluse area so they didn’t have contact with the outside. Hitler did all this in an effort to show that he cared for them. Around this time the Holocaust also started, and all of the Jews were publicly persecuted and killed. But Hitler was smarter than that, so he told everyone to take down Anti-Jew signs and stop persecuting the Jews, so that when the foreign athletes would be in Germany, they wouldn't see the massacres or the hatred. Therefore the foreigners would bring back good comments about Germany to their

The games had an abundant amount of controversial events and boycotts before the games started and during the games. With several boycotts being developed in countries like Canada, France and the United States with the majority of these boycotts being run by Communist base parties. Adolf Hitler used the Olympic Games to showcase his idea of white superiority and although Hitler’s Germany was seen as successful as well as powerful nation, there was a major obstacle. Hitler received a “Severe setback to Nazi strategies on demonstrating white, Aryan superiority to the world were the four gold medals won by American black track and field athlete, Jesse Owens.” (Morrow, Sport in Canada, 275) Jesse Owens success at the games went against Hitler’s idea of white race superiority. The most significant problem in Nazi Germany was the anti-Semitic views towards the Jewish people in Germany and caused American to threaten a boycott. If the Americans did not attend the Olympics Hitler could not have showcased Nazi power through sports because the United States had the overall best athletes as a country in the world. Instead, American only gave Hitler one stipulation to them attending the games and that was to put a Jewish athlete on the German team. (Morrow, Sport in Canada, 275) The Olympics began with not one country boycotting the games “…and Hitler was able to parade Nazi youth before the world.” (C.E.S. Franks, Sport and Canadian diplomacy, 665) This is why the 1936 Olympics went down in history to be known as the Nazi

The 1936 olympics were the first olympics to be televised. Hitler put these olympics on There for his country. Hitler did this because he wanted his country to look better and himself look better. Hitler was actually a very bad man in the days he set up the Holocaust which killed many jews.

The 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany held from August first to August sixteenth. 49 nations showed up and 3,963 athletes represented them. Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer at the time of the olympics and used it as Nazi propaganda. Hosting the olympics helped Germany show the world that it had recovered from the destruction and isolation The Treaty of Versailles had caused it. Adolf Hitler hid his racism towards Jewish people and Roma people and as well as its growing military. In 1931 the International Olympic Committee chose Berlin for the eleventh Summer Olympics. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor and Germany became an one party dictatorship. Germany then started to go after Jewish people and blamed their problems on them.

The boys bonded and created good relationships. That made it possible for them to win the Olympics. The main character Joe put together a boating team

During 1936 when the Olympic games were expected to be a German showcase Hitler lambasted at America for including black athletes in the Olympic games, but

They also built the metropolitan expressway which gave public transportation a major boost which lead to many citizens of Japan purchasing color televisions. The final example that shows the Olympic Games should not have a permanent home is hosting the Olympics gives the country a chance to make history. "During the Berlin 1936 Olympics, nazi leader Adolf Hitler planned to show the worth the the Aryan people, meaning whites of Northern European ancestry, were the dominant race" says Flora on page 4. During the Olympics athletes have the chance to set and break records and when people refer to the record that was broken they also refer to where the record was broken. For example, the 200 meter run was broken by USA in bolt at the 2012 Olympics in Great Britain. Also, history can be made like what happened during the 1936 Olympics when Jesse Owens p, and African American, became the most successful athlete in those games. Also, when the Soviet Union was in great power there water polo team faced off with the Hungarians in the semifinals of the 1956 Melbourne Australia Olympics

As host of the olympics, Hitler had the power to include and exclude certain athletes simply based on them as a person rather than the skill they posses. Hitler instituted a policy in all German athletic organizations, an Aryans only rule which did not allow all Non-Aryans to competes. These Non-Aryans involved homosexuals, Romanians, Communists, the mentally/physically disabled, and the Jewish. As a result many Jewish athletes were turned away.

The summer of 1936, the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany. The International Olympic Committee had awarded Berlin with the games with no idea that Adolf Hitler would be in control. Hitler’s Regime was slowly reaching its peak by the time the Olympic Games started. Hitler started to implement his extremist views on Germany such as racist policies. Hitler saw the games as a chance to prove his theory that Aryans were the superior race.

Hitler set out a massive propaganda plan for the 1936 Olympic Games. He had to cutback on his propaganda because it caused other countries to distrust Germany. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, “Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) as well as Germany’s growing militarism.” The new image Hitler created of Germany made other countries hesitant toward Hitler and his regime.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics, also known as the Nazi Olympics, was one of the most politically charged events in world history. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, did not originally want to host the Olympic games. But, after much persuasion from his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, by saying that hosting the Olympics would be an excellent way to show off the Aryan race’s superiority over others, Hitler agreed.(“Nazi Olympics Tangled Sports and Politics”) The decision to hold the games led to over one hundred countries participating that year, including the United States. The U.S. knew how poorly the Nazis were treating Jewish people and other minorities. They were fully aware that the Nazis were using the Olympics as propaganda to make themselves seem peaceful, but chose to participate anyway. This decision was a poor one.