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A unique relationship forms between the author and the reader through McCourt’s effective ‘show and tell’ narrative method. This gives the reader more involvement and greater emotional attachment. During the first part of this book, he ‘shows’ the reader, through innocent misunderstandings, that interpretation is needed in order to fully understand the context: “Sometimes he [Mr. Leibowitz] speaks to Mrs. Leibowitz and I don’t understand because strange sounds come from his mouth. Freddie understands…smiles back and makes the strange sounds” (38). Here the reader knows that the ‘strange sounds’ are the Leibowitz’s speaking another language. Frank does not understand that there are different languages that people speak other than just English, but the mature reader is informed.

Tobias Wolff’s memoir, ‘This Boy’s life’ explores his record of growing up in 1950’s post-war America. Frequented with tropes surrounding masculinity, identity, and relationships between individuals, Wolff retells his experiences beginning with Jack at age 10, attempting a fresh start with his mother, Rosemary, and continues throughout his adolescence, navigating toxic relationships and societal expectations. Jack’s compelling desire for a worthwhile identify results in him manifesting webs of lies and acting out in problematic means, cracking the façade of his virtuous nature. However, Rosemary’s troubled relationship complex of attracting abusive men, may act as a conduit and instigator towards Jack’s behaviour during his childhood and the

The narrator of Sophie’s Choice, Stingo, meets a young Polish woman at the Pink Palace in Brooklyn after World War II. She has a dark past due to some horrendous experiences during Nazi occupation in Poland and time in Auschwitz. It is important to take a critical look at her fictitious narrative and deem whether Styron has produced a plausible character. Also, it is key to assess if the stories told by Sophie attribute positively to real accounts of the Holocaust without trivializing the history in order to create a popular

Emerging from humble beginnings, Jacobs Engineering Group is as bonafide global entity. With headquarters in Pasadena, California, Jacobs’ company culture is based on investment in employees, relationship-building amongst clients, and focusing on continual growth.1 With offices on every continent, Jacobs continues to gain strength as a most viable global engineering company.

In Maus, Spiegelman uses a third person narrative to tell the story of his father’s experiences in the Holocaust. In contrast, Robinson uses first and second person to tell the story of Lisa Marie’s family’s hardships due to Residential Schools. Through the use of historical references, relationships and evoking emotion in the reader, Eden Robinson’s narrative better exemplifies how individuals of second generation trauma use the experience of post memory to connect with the reader when compared to Spiegelman’s Maus.

Different from other resources, in this article the author does Jewish social studies in the works of Christie and concludes that Jews in the works of many Christie novels. The Jewish character are stereotype, most of them are good looking man. The author also lists the titles of works in which Jewish appear.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. This saying fits perfectly with a certain character that goes by the name of Howard W. Campbell, Jr. The narrator and protagonist Howard Campbell is an American playwright living in Germany with a German wife as World War II breaks out. Campbell is persuaded to remain in Germany, cultivate the Nazis, and become an American Agent. Throughout the novel “Mother Night” you get to see different sides of Howard. As the novel gets deeper so do you with this character, getting to learn more and more about Howard and his personality. This essay will show you who and what type character Howard W. Campbell, Jr was. Howard at heart a somewhat a simple man, who loved his wife Helga and his work as a writer. he hides his true self deep inside and puts on a façade for everyone. Howard is so effective at hiding himself, that people only know him as the Nazi he pretends to be.

The Kommandant's Mistress (1993), by Sherri Szeman (pseudonym for American author Alexandria Constantinova Szeman) is a highly original first novel that portrays the relationship between the Kommandant of a Nazi concentration camp and the Jewish inmate he makes his mistress. The first part of the novel depicts a narrative from Kommandant Maxmilan von Walther's point of view, while the second retells Rachel Sarah Levi’s perspective. The book concludes with what appear to be official documents, coldly objective biographies of the principal characters, affording yet a third perspective on the story and its actors. The versions of the story told by Max and Rachel are surprisingly different, yet recognizable as the intimate drama they shared in

Though set in entirely dissimilar countries at different points in history, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Alias Grace’ and Hannah Kent’s ‘Burial Rites’ possess significant comparisons. Both for instance, are fictionalized historical novels following the tribulations of a female protagonist convicted of murder and both have been widely acclaimed for their incredible literary style which merges classic poetry, epigraphs, folklore and historical articles with fiction. The most striking parallel between each novel that can be drawn, however, is the way in which authors masterfully craft the stories of untrustworthy, cunning and deceptive criminals to elicit sympathy from their audiences. Readers of the novel and secondary characters alike are gradually pulled into sympathising with ambiguous and untrustworthy female leads, Grace Marks (Alias Grace) and Agnes Magnusdottir (Burial Rites). Despite the heavy suspicions of others and a lack of evidence to support their claims of innocence, these characters present artfully manipulated features of their defence stories to provoke empathy, sympathy and trust from those within the novel, and those reading it.

During the early 1900’s up until recent history, women have been treated through the lenses of men. Heller’s satirical Catch-22 tries to clean this lense, by overly showing the dehumanization of women. Through sex, and objectification, Heller is able to point out the problems in our own society. At the end of the novel, Heller contrasts these persistent themes with the men’s humanity, and he is able to make us want change in our society. Through prostitution, and the general use of women for sex, Heller paints a vivid reflection of society.

Jennifer Phillips defines Patrick Bateman in her paper as a “covert, unreliable narrator” meaning it is not immediately apparent that depictions of his surroundings are distorted. This initially sparked criticism among readers, particularly those approaching the text without an understanding of its satirical nature, interpreting it as a glorified story rather than one of irony in which Bateman’s crimes were described in unnecessary detail. Phillips states that indications of Bateman's unreliability lie in his confession to his girlfriend that he is an ‘evil psychopath’, a warning which goes unheeded, and his confession to his lawyer which is ultimately ignored. “The exchange is an indication that there is a discrepancy in the narration.”. These examples show the difference between Patrick Bateman’s self-image and how others see him, ignored by a society either unable or unwilling to see his depravity.

As illustrated, Englander effectively incooperates comedy into his narrative in order to portray the horrors of the Holocaust in a lighter manor than traditional Holocaust writings. He successfully fuses together humor and historical accuracy. Other novelists admire his creative work in What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank. As Jonathan Franzen states, “It takes an exceptional combination of moral humility and moral assurance to integrate fine-grained comedy and large-scale tragedy as daringly as Nathan Englander does” (“What”). Instead of taking the Holocaust literally and describing a specific survivor story or summarizing a set of facts, Englander subtly highlights the Holocaust while focusing on a different, comical story

In the short story, The Old Chevalier by Isak Dinsen, the male protagonist, Baron von Brackel reflects on his past sexual encounters with two women whose personalities are extremely different from one another. In many novels, short stories and comics authors would create two women as “polar opposites” for a man’s sexual and/or possessive gaze, which is evident in the text. In order to understand, why a man may be attracted to different character traits in women, I will examine The Baron’s attraction to Nathalie and The Mistress by looking at how literary works men portray women, what they find attractive and the fulfilment that men seek from a woman.

In William Styron’s book Sophie’s Choice Styron explains the effects of World war 2 on an American, a Polish person and a Jewish person. Sophie, the polish women, who is forced to make a very difficult decision during the war, a choice that, affects her mental state of mind for the rest of her life. Stingo, the American and narrator of the story struggles to find inspiration for his writing career while also discovering his families past. Nathan, the Jewish man who is hopelessly in love with Sophie a holocaust survivor, lashes out in anger and questions her about her past. Sophie’s Choice uses three characters guilt to portray the hardships of World War 2 and the mental instability it has caused.

Henry James’ novella, Daisy Miller, illustrates the incompatible social constructs of knowledge and innocence. Daisy, a young, American girl from upstate New York, meets a gentleman named Winterbourne while on holiday in Switzerland. Also an American transplant living in Switzerland, he becomes fixated on understanding Daisy’s behavior, mystified by her independence and self-confidence. The opposition of their qualities ultimately leads to Winterbourne wasting their limited time together trying to decipher whether Daisy’s spontaneity is a result of her innocence or the lack thereof. Daisy Miller herself is an enigma to Winterbourne.