After The Flood By Gertrude Analysis

The parents came out of Grandma’s room by one by one, bags under their eyes, makeup running down their face, and bright red noses. By that time, I could almost predict what happened. As my mom and dad approached us with their heads down, I prepared myself to hear exactly what I never wanted to hear. “The doctors are turning off the life support machine. She isn’t suffering anymore, and she will be looking over every one of you guys. She said she loves you all so much,” Mom told us while my dad didn’t hide his tears back.

throughout the story from a cold-hearted character into a loving and compassionate character. For example, Rosa and Liesel are dropping off the wash for all of the customers and Rosa makes Liesel drop off the wash at the worst house: "What? Mama shoved her, you heard me, saumensch. Move it." (42) In this quote you are able to see the side of Rosa that is cold-hearted as she curses at her child and shoves her to do her job when she herself does not want to do it. Rosa is portrayed as not the best foster mother or even a good foster mother. Rosa consistently displays characteristics of cold-heartedness as she takes out her anger of her own life on others. Later in the story Rosa begins to transform from

The carriage clattered over the rough road, and there were moments when Abigail felt the conveyance tilt upon its wheels, sending her toward the side with her mother's scant weight pressing upon her in grim reminder of how little the frail, ill woman could withstand the rigors of such a journey. Her fingers in Abigail's hand were cold, hardly more than winter twigs. She could feel the fear inside with them, an invisible fog that sapped heat and set her teeth to chattering, despite the warmth of the air.

“I don’t feel so well” Jan’s father had suddenly said one morning at breakfast. Her father, a World War II veteran, stood up and went to go lie down. The rest of the family continued with their day. Michael went to see how his father was. When he tried to wake him his father didn’t respond or make a sound. The 11 year old boy was the one who first knew that his father was gone. The memory of her father’s loss is vivid in Jan’s mind. It was a substantial shock after he had survived the horrors of World War II and then just passed away quietly at home one morning. Jan now understands how

Edouard, Sarah’s father in-law, was forever traumatized into silence about seeing Sarah return to the apartment to find her dead brother. Edouard had nightmares and would never forget what he had witnessed. As Julia read Edouard a letter from Genevieve to Gaspard’s family about Sarah, her life, and her now joining the DuFaure family “He sounded like he was crying, but he appeared to be doing everything he could to make me think he wasn’t” (195). Seeing Sarah return to the apartment to find her brothers dead body locked away had been a defining moment in Edouard’s life and being able to hear the letter about Sarah’s new and better childhood with the DuFaure’s he gained some closure, at least Sarah found a great family after what she had gone through. William Rainsferd was also greatly affected by learning about his mothers true identity. He rethought his entire life, caught in a whirlwind of emotions and new information, and finally at the very end of the book made peace with the new knowledge and used it to better his life. His life was forever changed by learning more about

In Cry, the Beloved Country, the city of Johannesburg enables Gertrude’s desires to control her life, yet the desires that govern her are shamefully careless. Before Gertrude left Ndosheni, she had been surrounded by villagers who essentially knew many or all of their community’s people, including her. With the fear that several people would know of or observe her actions, Gertrude was encouraged to act upon the ethical desires widely accepted by her people. On the other hand, Johannesburg has little to no sense of community—being a heavily populated city and the majority of its inhabitants strangers to one another—which allows Gertrude to pursue the amoral desires within her, and for them to occur unnoticed by relatives. When Stephen Kumalo, her brother, finally receives word of Gertrude’s illness, he leaves for Johannesburg and finds her in a shabby, dirty house, crammed between similar buildings. Anxiously standing in front of his sister’s door, awaiting what would be their first encounter after several months, Kumalo overhears a “laughter in the house, the kind of laughter of which one is afraid… perhaps because it is in truth bad laughter,” (Paton 59 emphasis added). The bad laughter he hears is a product of Gertrude’s careless desires; her undisciplined lust for men. The context in which this laughter comes from is what makes it bad, especially in Kumalo’s mind, for he is not just her family, but a priest as well. Without a close-knit community to direct

The Butters were among these inmates, and were sent on a train to Switzerland to go forward with their exchange and escape. On the very long train ride there, Irene’s father passed away from malnutrition. Irene remembers this as the worst part of her experience. His body was taken out of the train and left on a bench and the Butters were forced to go on without him.

My heart sank like a bottomless ocean. I was standing there is shock and just wanted to wake up from this horrible dream.Then Hilda, Beatrice, Tzipora and me started walking away from Elie and Shlomo.This is when I could hear Elie and Sholom leaving me forever.Slowly disappearing into the gray, dark and gloomy fog.They were are gone forever. ”Mother.Where are we going.”I don't know.”After all of the sudden, I could see a pile of pale and skinny dead people.That was one of the most disgusting things that I have seen.I could see flies and dogs feeding on their corpses like their food.Then I could see smoke coming from a tall and dark chimney from an old, abandoned building. ”Is that...the...the…,”What do you want to say? .It's the crematoria.We can't go.’They can't take you guys away from me

She was the person that nobody was to mess with; however once the war came, her life was adjusted. The reader saw a side of Rosa that nobody else would imagine seeing. Rosa Hubermann’s attitude towards her loved ones and her behavior toward others surrounding her went through extreme metamorphosis. To begin with, Rosa’s attitude towards her adopted daughter, Liesel, was transfigured at the end of the story. In the beginning of the story, Liesel arrived at 33 Himmel Street where she met her kind Papa and tough Mama.

The German police chief lined them up and began transporting everyone to the extermination camp in Treblinka. As they lined up to board the trains, a Nazi officer stoped in front of Isaac and told him to get out of the line. He was paralyzed with fear as he watched his mother, sister, and two beautiful nieces board the cattle wagons. The door slammed shut on them and the lines of people continued to move forward onto the next wagon. Somehow he won a ticket to live that day and knew he should get out of there fast. But just ahead of him, he saw Rosa - the beautiful, kind, selfless girl from his building. Isaac realized he must act no matter what the cost. He mustered up all the confidence left in him and told the officer, “that’s my sister. I want to be with her.” The Nazi approached Rosa and asked if Isaac was her brother. She said yes and, sure enough, the Nazi allowed her to get out of line and leave with Isaac. Later on, they survived together working as slaves in an ammunition factory for 4 years. That line to Treblinka was not the last time they escaped death, but the hope they found was able to put all their miseries aside. Rosa never once doubted the true love they had for each other and was, therefore, eager to get married in the ghetto despite the risk they would be taking. She was confident that they would survive and she is still

For me? Or for you?” (paragraph 34). This once again shows the narrator’s conflict with her mother, even implying how she thinks her mother is selfish thinking more about her interests and opportunities than her own daughter. Finally, the tension between their disagreement is most evident when the narrator describes her utter hopelessness over her mother’s decision, “I stormed off to my room and threw myself onto my bed. I ached inside. Like the feeling you get watching a lost balloon float far into the sky until it becomes an invisible nothing (paragraph 35). This quote really emphasizes the narrator’s disappointed, helpless feelings; it shows just how unimportant she feels compared to her mother’s research as if her feelings and future mean

Father of Edith, who ran a timber business, died when she had only just turned two. Her mother, a very devout, hard-working, strong-willed and truly wonderful woman, now had to fend for herself and to look after the family and their large business. Edith Stein from her earliest years showed a great aptitude for learning, and by the time of the outbreak of World

Henry Perowne’s visit to his Mother’s nursing home really resonated with me. This was mainly because I have a personal connection to this story. Less than two years ago, my Grandmother (my father’s mother) was admitted into an assisted living facility. Just like Lily Perowne, my Grandma’s health has also slowly been deteriorating, and while not as severe, she has shown symptoms of memory loss. So, as awful as it sounds, I can really understand the difficulty that Henry faces as he gather’s himself to go visit Lily. I am always a bit reluctant to visit my Grandmother, and I’m not entirely sure why. Initially, I thought it might be because her current condition is not one that I wish to remember her in. I’m not sure that is true though, because

She merely puts trust in those people as they are her family and close friends. This helps me realize the fact that even one’s own family can be one’s nearest enemy. The thorough analysis of Gertrude’s character reveals another terrifying fact that women are not treated equally as men throughout the history. In

Claudia expresses again and again how marginalized she and her sister perceived themselves to be, "Adults do not talk to us - they give us directions" (10). When Claudia thinks back to a childhood illness she suffered, she remembers her mother's irritation at finding her sick in bed. Claudia questions the reliability of her perceptions of pain and confusion, "But was it really like that? As painful as I remember? Only mildly. Love...eased up into that cracked window" (12). Claudia's mother's irritation is tempered with compassion; she coats Claudia's phlegmy chest with salve and "hands repinned the flannel, readjusted the