Briar Rose: A Short Story

knew in order to detach herself from society’s standards and her emotional attachment to people,

The use of multiple layers of narrative in Jane Yolen’s- Briar Rose is highly effective in communicating the story and the story and themes concerning Gemma’s past experiences of the Holocaust and Becca’s quest for truth and fulfilment of her Grandmother’s legacy. Yolen uses a number of voices or accounts of events to give the reader a dramatic sense of the extent and the horror of Gemma’s experiences. The fairytale story, Becca’s quest and Joseph Potocki, all add richness of detail to the novel as a whole. Techniques that incorporate this include symbolism, allegory, intertexuality, narrative structure and language.

Have you ever felt so alone, you get the impression that you do not belong at a place? Sandra Cisneros describes the unfavorable relationship she faces with her family. Although Sandra is talked down upon, she persuades the readers how the loneliness impacted her life.

On this particular day, she was walking through the woods, singing and skipping merrily along. All of a sudden, there was a sound behind her. As she turned around to

Jane Yolen, in her novel Briar Rose, has used an allegory of Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty as a metaphor to hide the real experiences and emotions suffered from the Holocaust during World War Two. The development and techniques employed within the story are extremely effective for the use of the allegory.

| Rose is describing her frustration and also, describes her jealousy towards Caroline’s life; that she escaped from living on a farm and had the ability to choose her life.

When Rebecca’s grandmother died, she had made a dying promise to her, which is to find the castle and the prince from her tale about Briar Rose. This is an important event to the story that made Rebecca question about Gemma’s past.

“For a minute Rose of Sharon sat still in the whispering barn. Then she hoistered her tired body up and drew the comfort

As a side note I did look to see if I could find Rose’s diary but was unsuccessful. If anyone can find it I would be interested to read that passage in full context.

A novel's essential purpose is generally to entertain as it is through entertainment that a novel is made memorable. The main factor that contributes to achieve a memorable novel is the ability the author has in exemplifying certain ideas as well as the way in which these ideas are embedded throughout the story line. Jane Yolen's Briar Rose is made memorable through its complex yet tightly fabricated narrative structure, the unique language of the narrative in the way Yolen relies heavily on irony, the use of effective characterisation, which Yolen manipulates to enhance the plot and develop the novel as a whole. Yolen combines all these techniques to assist in portraying the ideas of fairytale, past effecting present and future as well as

This module is called close study of text. It is module B of paper 2 worth 20%. This is a novel, a work of fiction. The author or composer is Jane Yolen.

She missed her boyfriend. She missed her friends in London. She didn't dare try to speak to any of them. She knew she'd be an unwelcome interruption.

In Anne Sexton’s most famous work, Transformations, she revises the Brother Grimm’s story of “Briar Rose” (Sleeping Beauty) in a poem that explores feminist interpretations as well as challenge the traditional fairy tale format. She deconstructs the conventional fantastical “happily ever after” ending to show the gruesome reality of incest at hand involving Briar Rose and her father. There is more to the tale than meets the eye. Sexton portrays Briar Rose as a passive character due to her father’s gruesome actions whereas in the Grimm’s story , it appears as if the father is overprotective of his daughter.

Aria was a young girl who lived in the forest, now known as the Amazon Rainforest. In her era, no one spoke the only way the humans could communicate was through a small technology device that was given by the gods, a cell phone. Many of the humans were very happy with it but Aria loved to dream of a day when she could make a sound like a jaguar or a frog. Aria was different from all the other living humans because she didn’t live with any of them her home was in a cave with her friend Kinkajou she named him like that because in her mind she imagined a lot of colors which reminded her of the flower’s nectar he took. Kinkajou stayed in the cave during the day because Aria loved to listen and play with the animals of the rainforest. During the night when Aria came back to the cave, Kinkajou would sing to her in his language making sounds that had Aria dream of

She felt lighter as she descended towards the lobby as if a weight had been lifted from her shoulders. But she didn’t question the feeling, instead she embraced it as she thrust onwards to the unknown.