110 pages • 3 hours read
Livia Bitton-JacksonI Have Lived a Thousand Years
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | YA | Published in 1997A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Essay Topics
The Nazi Aryan ideal idealized blond hair and blue eyes as the signs of the “superior" race. When and in what ways does Bitton-Jackson’s blond hair and blue eyes impact her experience during the Holocaust?
When Bitton-Jackson refuses to leave her house wearing the yellow star, her mother tells her, “What’s a yellow star on a jacket? It does not kill or condemn. It does not harm. It only says you’re a Jew. That’s nothing to be ashamed of. We’re not marked for being criminals. Only for being Jews” (31). Why does Bitton-Jackson disagree with her mother about the impact of the star?
Bitton-Jackson often uses German words without directly translating them. At what points in her story does she do this, and what is the effect?
