Briar Rose Speech

Transition. Clara didn’t let her age or resources get in the way of her goals. She earned her own money to pay for her books by sewing and writing letters for neighbor who didn’t know how to read or write.

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.

Human nature is truly a complex thing to understand. Jackie French has lured us into a world bursting with vital historical information, she has entangled in the novel, a series of facts about the many events that occurred in World War II. French has taken the time to structure this novel with sensitivity and sophistication. She has shown great sympathy towards the Jewish people throughout this captivating novel. The author then leads us onto a path to teach us the importance of history and the endless lessons we may learn from the mistakes of previous generations.

The Holocaust was a brutal event in World War Two and millions of people were killed. Although this occurrence was brutal, beautiful things happened too. Beauty and brutality co-existed throughout the the Holocaust and changed people's lives. Markus Zusak used imagery to represent beauty and brutality co-existing in “The Book Thief” throughout the lives of Liesel, Hans, and Death.

Terrible Things by Eve Bunting is a fantasy story with compelling symbolism connected to the Holocaust written for all ages. Eve Bunting tells the readers “Standing up for what you know is right is not always easy. Especially if the one you face is bigger and stronger than you. It is easier to look the other way. But, if you do, terrible things can happen.” Eve Bunting tells readers in her allegory and in her short message that standing for what is right needs confidence and bravery. However, if looking away is the action made, terrible things can happen. This is similar to what happened in the Holocaust where millions of people died because very few people chose to stand up to face the Nazis. Her story presents the theme, standing up for what is right is difficult, but looking away will cause terrible things to happen, through symbolism, repetition, and tone.

There are various social issues that come across in our daily lives. One of the most reoccurring is stereotyping. The two characters accessible in this essay are Princess Elizabeth from The Paper Bag Princess and Hana from Hana’s Suitcase. In these two stories, both girls Hana and Princess Elizabeth have been stereotyped. Hana is stereotyped on her ethnic and spiritual backgrounds; she must face the expatriation and killing of large number of the Jewish people by Nazi’s throughout the Holocaust. On other hand, Elizabeth is stereotyped established on other “old-style” fairy stories; where the princess wishes the rescue and the prince fights the aggressive dragon. She faces a bigot stereotype. This essay will discuss how the authors; Levine (Hana’s Suitcase) and Munsch (The Paper Bag Princess) deal

Part of the novel Briar Rose takes place during the Holocaust, the mass murder of Jews during the time frame of 1941 to 1945. During the Holocaust, more than 6 million Jews, as well as members of other persecuted groups, including homosexuals, were killed at concentration camps. In the story, Becca travels to Poland to learn more about Gemma, her grandmother’s, fairy tale stories that she tells Becca and her two sisters throughout their adolescence. She meets Josef, who upon arrival, Becca discovers was the “prince” in her grandmother’s stories. Josef explains the story of his life, focusing on when he was involved in the Holocaust. In Josef’s story, he tells of how they meet and revive a young lady who has completely lost her memory besides

The aim of this book review is to analyze Night, the autobiographical account of Elie Wiesel’s horrifying experiences in the German concentration camps. Wiesel recounted a traumatic time in his life with the goal of never allowing people to forget the tragedy others had to suffer through. A key theme introduced in Night is that these devastating experiences shifted the victim 's view of life. By providing a summary, critique, and the credentials of the author Elie Wiesel, this overview of Night will reveal that the heartbreaking events of the Holocaust transformed the victims outlook, causing them to have a lack of empathy and faith.

Jane Yolen discusses the variations in Cinderella throughout history in America’s “Cinderella” Yolen began a career in publications as an editor and later became a professional writer, winning numerous awards and publishing over seventy novels. Yolen observes that the European Cinderella and the Asian Cinderella possess more strength than the helpless modern Cinderella. She attributes this evolution to cultural incorporations and mass market’s reproductions of the tale. American interpretations of Cinderella result in a lasting change to a dependent heroine. Yolen reveals many people are familiar with the changed Cinderella and not the former Cinderella. In Jane Yolen’s essay, America’s “Cinderella”, she denounces the debasement of women in today’s society by comparing the past Cinderella to modern Cinderella, characterizing Cinderella as reliant, and criticizing the example of Walt Disney’s Cinderella.

Where there is doubt along with darkness, the human spirit finds a way triumphs. In the documents A through E, different stories are told through books or from someones perspective of the time during the Holocaust. The characters mostly seem to be happy in this tough time bringing up the question, how does the spirit triumph. The love, the laughter, and the natural beauty helps the human spirit prevail. To help these people think and feel positive, they find a way to love.

In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel illustrates sadistic memories of the Holocaust to convey the lost of innocence of fifteen year old Eliezer to the readers. At a young age, many people encounter traumatizing incidents that strip away their purity forever. For Eliezer, he will always remember the German's deliberate brutality against the Jews on the concentration camps. His innocence deteriorates as he witnesses several horrific moments that influenced his morals. Wiesel engages the reader with powerful unforgettable moments in order to acheive his purpose.

The Holocaust was a time of great suffering and inhumanity. The novel Night, which took place during this time, was written by Elie Wiesel and talks about his teen self-experiencing the concentration camps of Auschwitz. This is related to the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas which is the story of a young German boy named Bruno who befriends a Jewish boy in a concentration camp. The many similarities and differences between the movie The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and the novel Night include their many themes of “inhumanity” and “guilt and inaction”, and the two also share and differ in the loss of innocence of the characters and how they develop in each medium.

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 “The Shawl”, Cynthia Ozick uses vivid details throughout the story to engage the reader. The story portrays the hard times Jews had during the Holocaust in a concentration camp consisting of three main characters: Rosa, Stella, and Magda who are trying to survive the horror of Nazism through a magical shawl. Rosa is the mother of Magda, a fifteen month baby and the aunt of Stella, a fourteen year old girl. The shawl is the only thing keeping them alive throughout the story and at the end it leads them to their death. The author’s use of symbolism is very significant to the story. Cynthia Ozick use of symbolism helps the reader visualize the setting by using symbols to convey different meanings and understand how these symbols characterize the experience of the holocaust survivors.

Once Upon a Social Issue Fairy tales have always been told to us as children; whether to comfort or entertain us, they always seem to be a part of everyone’s childhood. “Once Upon A Time”, the title is a characteristic of a fairy tale, but she leads the story to an ending that is anything other than “happily ever after” (Gordimer 12). Although Nadine Gordimer’s title is typical in a fairy tale in the story “One upon a time”, the story she writes is anything but typical. Instead of dealing with characteristics and synonymous with fairy tales, the author uses irony to reflect the idea of humans