The Zookeeper's Wife By Diane Ackerman

ZooBreak by Gordon Korman takes place in Cedarville, Long Island. There is this group of friends and there is this one girl named Savannah and she has a pet monkey named Cleopatra and she left her monkey unattended outside in her backyard and by the time she realized her monkey was in her backyard her monkey was already gone. My theme is positivity, mainly because in this story there is a problem and most of them stay positive and in the end it all works out.

The Genre of this book is “Historical Fiction”. This book takes place in Poland, during WW2. In this time, Adolf Hitler wanted to kill every Jewish citizens. Max and Zena need to get out of the concentration camp before they get killed. Even if they escape, they will be stuck in the middle of a forest with

Lily Atkins 4/18/2018 Lit 2000 Professor Farmen Analysis Of: What Is The Zoo For What In “What Is The Zoo For What,” Patricia Lockwood paints a portrait of nature. Nature is violent and free; it embodies a sense of chaos and unruliness that society has tried to control through the invention of captivity. Inventions of captivity can be described as zoos, but is also anything that holds another thing; like a fountain holding water, a song containing sound. Many forms of captivity are described while words are redefined to point out the very abstract invention of captivity, which is language.

Changed Him They Cage the Animals at Night is a true story about the author, Jennings Michael Burch, who tells the story of the loneliness and pain he experiences in his life in orphanages and foster homes during the 1950s in Bronx, New York. Jennings changes a lot throughout this book: becoming more experienced, more carefree, and mentally stronger. Jennings becomes more experienced from all the homes and orphanages he’s been to. One example of this is the “no friend” rule Marc tells Jennings about in the beginning of the book:“‘we’re gonna become friends.

Literature encapsulates the human experience, reflecting facets of our culture, traditions, and beliefs. Literature functions as a tool to develop and explore empathetic links with other individuals and can provide insight into experiences removed from our own reality. Peter Fischl’s poem ‘Little Polish Boy’ is one such text in which we can attain a unique understanding of the horrors catalysed by war. An expression of Fischl’s own Holocaust experience, this poem is set in WWII, and addressed as a letter to an innocent child of the war from a photograph Fischl found years after the war ended. We can also learn of the loss and grief children face in times of war through the picture book ‘a Soldier, a Dog and a Boy’ by Libby Hathorn. The story follows a young boy orphaned by the Battle of Somme and he’s only left to survive with his dog before an Australian soldier comes to his rescue. These texts allow us to reach a better understanding of the different effects conflict has on children.

Questions have been raised on whether Chinese parenting raises more flourishing children than Western parenting. Despite what people think, in Amy Chua's essay “The Roar of the Tiger Mom”, she portrays the differences between the beliefs of Chinese parenting and Western parenting. Chua introduces the views of a Chinese parent compared to the views of a Western parent. The methods used by Chinese mothers in raising their children are drastically different from Western mothers. Each defends their methods and believes the other group is doing their job poorly. In the end, both types of parents just want one thing-- successful children.

Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.

In a crowded city such as Manhattan, it was no wonder that a man like Jerry felt lonely. He was without a friend, a mother and father, and the typical 'wife, two children, and a dog,'; that many others had. Jerry was thrown in a world that he felt did not want him, and his human flaw of wanting to escape loneliness led to his tragic death. In Edward Albee's play, The Zoo Story, all Jerry wanted was to be heard and understood, and in the end, after sharing his life story with a complete stranger, he got his final wish - death. The Zoo Story not only tells of the alienation of man in modern society, but also reflects the philosophy of twentieth century existentialism.

The novel German Boy by Wolfgang Samuel is about his life as a boy from Germany. The book takes place during World War II. Wolfgang goes through this tragic time era with his mother and his sister Ingrid. He is not able to live a normal life of a child such as other children in the world. The characters, settings, and themes make this novel the success it is today because it helps the reader to know what it was like to live during WWII. Wolfgang’s development and experiences further the reader's interest. Going to Berlin and Strasburg from Wolfgang’s hometown Sagan added to the struggles that he faced with moving from place to place to seek safety. Family will always be there to help and no one is safe from war is what Wolfgang learns with his experiences living in this time period.

In 1965, Jerzy Kosinski wrote his controversial novel “The Painted Bird”, which tells the story of a young six year old unnamed boy’s journey to survive during the violence and horrors of World War II. Kosinski shows readers how war can change people, as well as how barbaric human beings can act during wartime. During this time the Nazi sentiment was spreading like wildfire throughout central Europe. Hitler took great measures to ensure that Nazi’s remained in control by using cruelty and violence in creating fear and terror. Those living in Europe were far too scared to go against the Nazis’. The Jewish were not the only enemies of the Germans “Gypsies followed close behind... having no place in Adolf Hitler’s ideal of a racially pure

"On July 16 and 17, 1942, 13, 152 Jews were arrested in Paris and the suburbs, deported and assassinated at Auschwitz. In the Vélodrome d' Hiver that once stood on this spot, 1,129 men, 2,916 women, and 4,115 children were packed here in inhuman conditions by the government of the Vichy police, by order of the Nazi occupant. May those who tried to save them be thanked. Passerby, never forget” (De Rosnay 60). In the book Sarah’s Key, it begins with a young girl named Sarah Starzinsky, who is dealing with her family being removed by the French police and put into a camp. Before the family left, Sarah puts her brother into a closet and locks him in to where he will not come out until she comes back. However, Sarah and her family did not realize that they were not

This is about a graphic novelest, Art Spiegelman, writing about his fathers expirence's during WWI. At the start, Art arrives at his father Vladek’s house in order to write his father’s WWI experiences for a book he plans to write about his father’s life. Vladek begins his story as a teenager in Sosnowiec, Poland, in the years leading up to World War II. He meets Anja and marries her. After they have their first son, Richieu, Anja suffers from severe depression, and Vladek accompanies her at a sanitarium in Czechoslovakia, where she will receive medical treatment. On the way there, they witness the spread of Nazism throughout central Europe, but are still relatively safe from it in Czechoslovakia. Anja recovers, and they return to Poland. With World War II coming, Vladek leaves for the front as a Polish soldier, where the Germans take him

In Edward Albee's play, The Zoo Story, Jerry tells Peter bizarre stories about people he has encountered that influence his shallow and lonely existence, to demonstrate Albee's view that society is unnecessarily consumed by indifference, unkindness, weakness, and emptiness. In an attempt to cause Peter to realize that his own life is filled with emptiness and shallowness, Jerry tells Peter about the lives of some of the people in his boarding house. He talks about the colored queen, the Puerto Rican family, the landlady, and the woman who cries all the time, in hopes of causing Peter to compare the meaninglessness of his life to their lives. In doing this, Jerry hopes Peter will realize that his life

Diane Ackerman wrote of a hero. She wrote to tell the story of Antonina Zabinksi, a courageous and resilient woman. Ackerman told of all the tough, dangerous situations Antonina was put through so that she could spark something inside of her readers. She wanted the readers to feel true emotion. “The Zookeeper’s Wife” takes place between 1935 and 1945. The setting is placed during World War II. Diane Ackerman’s explains the many struggles Antonina faces and how she faces each one bravely. An example of how Ackerman conveys emotion to the reader is when there was fire set to

Unlike how many believe, Nazi ideology first stemmed from the Enlightenment period when Germany slowly embraced holistic ideas that were the original tenets of Nazism. This was a result of the shifting of ideas from the idealization of a single person in the Enlightenment period, to the idealization of a nation (Adamson). However, Germany began seeing the “oneness” of foreign values that focused on unity as inadequate and “un-German” (Adamson). In other words, these values were seen as threatening to the traditional system of Germany because it was threatening the existence of the belief of one organism being superior over the other. Due to this, Germany slowly adopted stronger beliefs of Nazi ideology such as racial superiority, anti-semitism, and social darwinism. Diane Ackerman, a naturalist and research, describes these ideologies in her book The Zookeeper’s Wife which describes how a family, the Zabinskis, dealt with the atrocities of the Holocaust while playing a big part in hiding Jews at this time. Through explaining Nazi ideologies through characters and events in her book, Ackerman describes Lutz Heck, a zoologist and animal researcher, and his belief in racial superiority, why Nazi policy towards Jews was anti-semitic, as well as descriptions of Jewish conditions in the Ghetto based off of social darwinism.