what questions you would ask a german woman when she accused falsely a jewish boy of a break in?

Question

This is english homework, and it is based on a news show with an interviewer and two people from germany- a shopkeeper and a policeman. It also involves 2 young boys, one jewish, one not. They were playing with a rubber ball, when the non jewish person chucked it and the jew didn't see it, and it hit the womans shop window and smashed it. She came out and accused the jew of it, but the non jew wasn't having any of it. He kepr protesting, but it wasn't making any difference. The policeman came along, and he thought that the jew had done it as well, but he wasn't as anti-jewish as the woman was. After this incident, they have been taken to an interviewing show in england, but I can't think of any questions to ask them. If you were able to send a question in for them to be read out live on the show, what question would you send in to ask them?? Please make it sensible and on the subject, I need this for tomorrow for my english homework.

Answer 1

a) It is normally not really that obvious to see if someone is Jewish, so I wonder how this woman can know. I would ask her first how she got the idea that this boy was a Jew and how she feels about Jews, so the audience can get a glimpse of this woman's political opinions. First people in the audience will realize that she has strange political opinions.

b) Next I would ask her if she has really seen the Jewish boy throwing the ball.

c) I would ask the boys (if both are in the show) to tell their version of the story, or only ask the non-Jewish boy (if only he is in the show) for his version of the story. After the boy/s say/s that the non-Jewish boy threw the rubber ball I would tell them that it is never a very good idea to play ballgames near a window, no matter if you're the catcher or the thrower and that they were both acting a little irresponsible anyway and that they both should apologize for breaking the window in. Audience will show empathy for the boys, who apologize so nicely, even though that lady is such a horrible racist.

d) I would ask the shopkeeper if she might have prejudices against Jews and therefore might only imagine to have seen the Jewish boy throwing the ball. I would also ask her why she is only accusing one boy instead of both and why it is important to her that one of them is Jewish. Her answer will most probably expose herself completely as being a racist. Audience will hate racist woman >> first booh-calls.

d) After her answer I would ask the policeman for his version of the story and ask him for his personal opinion about the happenings and if he would trust more the angry woman or the Jewish boy. Because the policeman is not a racist, he will probably trust the boy's version of the story more than the shopkeeper's version.

e) with everyone (policeman, audience, you) on the Jewish boy's side you can kick the lady's *** (metaphorically) and fully expose her racism by a brief conclusion of the results of this discussion

f) tell woman that she has to think about her political opinions and should get rid her prejudices

g) tell Jewish boy that he should better learn to catch a ball

h) tell non-Jewish boy that he should better learn to throw a ball (in the right direction)

i) everyone happy >> go eat some popsicle

Answer 2

I like Elaine P's answer. Put more generally, "What specific evidence do you have that the Jewish boy threw the ball?" She'll probably say that she saw him do it. Then you could check out her eyesight. Let's assume that she had glasses and could actually see that far--and that she was in a position to see. If the answers to all of these still didn't exonerate the kid then I'd start with the other answerer's questions on her feelings about Jews and nail the bigot.

Answer 3

This sounds like the plot in a german book called ''Damals war es Friedrich''. Is it based on this story?

I think you need to ask her if she has any proof that the Jew did it because in law the accused is always innocent until proven guilty. (Although, if it is based on the book, it was set in the second world war so there would not have been any CCTV cameras or anything)

Answer 4

The Jewish boy is at a disadvantage from the start. In the bible we are told man is at enmity with God. Since the Jews are God's chosen people, man will go against the Jew as he sees them as God's elect. So when it comes to a choice they will go against the Jew.This of course is entirely wrong as in the Bible we are told to pray for Israel and her people and you will be blessed, condemn her and you will be condemned.

Answer 5

If I were the interviewer, I would stay away from the subject of religious prejudice and stick with the legal aspect: "Did you actually see who threw the ball? or: "Why do you believe that (Name of boy) was the one who threw the ball?"

Answer 6

I know the qanswer but I am not going to tell you because that is cheating. What would you ask?.....I dont know where you got that question but that would simply not happen in todays Europe and they should not be asking such riculous questions etc etc etc....

Answer 7

keep your questions open-ended (nothing that can be answered with yes or no). I would ask what her opinion of semetic people is, or something that will allow her to ramble into a possibly self-incriminating racist remark.