Honors English II 1/28
Errors from the Rena’s Promise Reader Response #1
Directions: Type out the answers to this assignment
1. Identify the error (s) [fused sentence, comma splice, fragment, apostrophes, etc].
2. Fix the error(s) by correcting and improving the sentence.
1. The book Rena’s Promise by Rena Kornreich Gelissen with Heather Dune Macadam is nonfiction, it starts with Rena beginning to tell her horrific story of survival to a writer in the United
States. –p2
2. Rena and her family originated from Poland, they lived there happily until the German’s started
to take power. –p.2
3. When she first arrives at Auschwotz, for example, Rena assumes that she and the others “will all
be treated humanely” (59) this however is not the case. –p. 2
4. In Poland before the Germans came Rena had a somewhat carefree life, in Auschwitz, however,
something as simple as a nail or a piece of rope is a possession to be treasured. –p.2
5. Rena became engaged to another man but her heart was still with Andrezej, later after she
heard of Andrzej’s death she returned home to live with her parents. –p. 2
6. It has been years since she left Poland, now, from her home in North Carolina, she and author
Heather MacAdam retell her story page by page. – p. 2
7. Rena and Danka liver with the Silber’s for some time, during which Rena becomes engaged,
however the Nazis demand that all Jews turn themselves in to work in camps. –p. 2
8. In 1942, she makes the bold decision to turn herself in to the German forces. Saying goodbye to
her sister and fiancé in order to protect her hosts from being caught and punished. –p. 2
9. In the first section it is interesting not only to have a point of view from Rena but Heather as
well. Heather, the lady who listened to Rena Gelissen’s experience in the Holocaust. –p. 0