Book Review: Letters From Rifka

Franz Kafka was born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary on July 3, 1883, but his live was short lived. He deceased at the age of forty on June 3, 1924.Kafka got most of his fame, because of his executor refusal to destroy all Kafka’s manuscripts. He is most known for his novels Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and The Trial. He was a German author of novels and short stories. Kafka came from a middle-class Jewish family in Prague, and was the first child of six. Kafka’s Father, Jacob Kafka was a butcher, and his mom helped Jacob with business, resulting in their absence most of the time at home. Kafka went to Charles university of Prague, where he initially majored in chemistry, but changed it law after the first two weeks of school. Frank

I would like to tell you about, Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate. This fiction book is about a young boy named Kek who is an immigrant from Sudan, Africa. He lived in Sudan his whole life until ten, but, has to move to America after a tragedy. It is hard for him to move to America. He holds on to hope no matter how hard things get and he has a lot of important new adventures in this country, that help him become a better person.

Lead-In/Hook: What would you do if you were stuck in a box, and if you got out, you would be killed. Would you try to escape, or stay inside with soldiers treating you like a dog, without a lot of food, and hope for the best? Think about a Jewish boy and a little girl that were caught by the Nazis while trying to escape from a concentration camp. Even if they try to escape, they will be stuck in the middle of a forest with no food, no drink, no arms, nothing. And now German soldiers are trying to find them. Book title, author, & genre: The book I’m reading is called “I survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944” written by Mary Pope Osborne. The Genre of this book is “Historical Fiction”. If you like books with risky actions and hard choices, you're going to love this book. Protagonist: In this book, the protagonist are Jewish brothers and sisters called Max and Zena. There are both very dynamic. They are unique in ways because Max takes risks and has a lot of courage, and Zena is shy and has hope, but she is scared of what will come. One thing that they have both in common is that they will never leave each other's sides. Point of View: The book is written in the third person point of view, the story is told by the narrator, at one point, the story is also told by Zena. Even though it’s the narrator that tells the story, she also describes how they feel. This book is not only told by the narrator, sometimes the characters interact with one another, so you know what they are thinking of. It also makes the story

The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary, is about a young girl (Farah) who’s had a hard childhood and overall life. She fights her way to freedom,even with many obstacles standing in the way. During her childhood, she lost her leg by stepping on a landmine, and then lost her father and sibling in a bomb attack. Now she must fight her way to the America’s to have a better life with her mom. The American’s were suppose to save them from Pakistan. “ A thousand Afghan refugees were to be rescued from Pakistan and taken to America!” (Ahmedi 133) Now she had her hopes up for a much better life, and she did. “ I don’t know what the future hold for me. With God’s grace, I plan to go to college, but I don’t know what I’ll study yet.”

Alister McGrath, from the very beginning of this book, plainly states what the dangerous idea is all about. “The dangerous new idea, firmly embodied at the heart of the Protestant

“There is no place like home,” Dorothy from “The Wizard of Oz,” say’s . This quote shows, how much Dorothy misses her home and believes that it is one of a kind. However, Rifka from “Letters From Rifka”, does not know her home or where she belongs. Even though Rifka does not know her home, Rifka does know that home is where she is safe with her family. This is a story about a young Jewish girl who has to leave her “home” because the Russian army is planning to recruit her brother Saul who sincerely loathes. They flee for America where safety was promised to them. However, the trip they must embark on is exceedingly treacherous. Initially, Rifka's family nominates her to distract the guards securing the train to Poland because she has none of

This article by Walter H. Sokel claims that the metamorphosis Gregor goes through gives him the chance to be rebellious. Sokel highlights that after Gregor is changed into a cockroach he also changes mentally, which affects his actions.

Fragments Of Isabella by Isabella Leitner Is a book that is about a girl and her family. Her and her family are jews and they start off in a place in Hungary called Kisvárda. They get deported to a concentration camp in Auschwitz. Where a lot of her family died like her mother one of her sisters and her older brother. You learn that her father went to America to try and get them immigration papers but by them time he got them it was too late for most of his family but a couple of them.

In the introduction, it is apparent by Dr. Kenneth Sufka comments that how you studied in high school will probably not work in college. However, much of what he observed in college students is easily fixed. Also, what he saw and made into guidelines is applicable to all students across the globe and not to just one in particular. All of these rules can most certainly bring your grades up and make you into a better student. Specifically, they will turn you into a better studier and test-taker. In all, it is beneficial to learn the rules he has set.

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.

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is a book about a girl named Lina Vilkas. This book took place in 1941, the time when World War 2 was going on. Lina is fifteen years old and has a wonderful family. In the book she would get arrested by the Soviet Union because she was Lithuanian and Joseph Stalin, the leader of the country at the time, did not except this. Lina, her brother, and her mother were all separated from Lina’s father because he got taken to a different camp. Lina and her family got loaded onto a train and they were sent to the north (Siberia) where they would have to work and live in very harsh and strong conditions. Lina would record everything that would happen from then on and she would try getting it to her father so they

In his novel The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka describes his own life through the life of his protagonist Gregor Samsa.  Careful study of Franz Kafka's life shows that Kafka's family, workplace, and reaction to the adversity in his family and workplace are just like those of Gregor.  So we might ask why Gregor was transformed into a bug since Kafka obviously never turned into a bug.  The absurd image illustrates how Gregor lacks self-respect and feels like he's a bug in the eyes of his family and society.  Franz Kafka was unhappy and never found his place in life, either.  Therefore, he might have felt just like Gregor, like a bug.  Furthermore the novel describes Kafka's expectations of his own future and he was partially

"A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night”. — Franz Kafka

In The Trial by Franz Kafka, the protagonist K. is going through what is often thought of as one of the most dehumanizing aspects of society. Even in the United States many criticize the justice system for being dehumanizing. People are forced to wear the same thing, act the same way, and are given numbers instead of names. In The Trial Kafka emphasizes the dehumanizing aspects of this process by exacerbating the bureaucratic steps that must be accomplished and adds more uncertainty and secrecy to the steps. Kafka’s writing shows the lack of information that K. is given, and the symbolic dehumanization that occurs during the whipping and with K. lacking a last name.

Lu Xun’s “Diary of a Madman” and Franz Kafkas “Metamorphosis" are both stories that challenge the idea of reality. Diary of a madman depicts the idea of an insane first person as he starts to visualize texts in his reading that say humans are going to eat him. “Metamorphosis” keeps the reader guessing weather Gregor is an actual insect or not through his slick metamors and vague use of language. Although “Diary of a madman” is told in first person and “Metamorphosis” is told in third person they both exemplify the human thought process and help us challenge the idea of sanity within a human being.