Red Leaves By Brahmachari Analysis

What happens to a person who has no identity at a time when identity can be one’s last hope – their salvation or a mark for death. In his novel Milkweed, Jerry Spinelli invites readers to experience the Holocaust through the eye of a young boy who misunderstands everything except the love of family and the different forms it can take. Misha, an orphan boy is taken in by a young group of Jewish thieves. He is simple minded of his own identity because Misha adopts the identity of the people around him in his life, first as a gypsy, then as a Jew when he follows his friend’s family into the ghetto. Readers are forced to focus on the simple acts of caring that takes place in a time of suffering because Misha is unable to understand what is really going on around him. Hope and selfless acts of love still exists during a time of havoc in the Warsaw ghetto, is shown through the innocent eyes of Misha. By using techniques such as dramatic irony, revealing characters’ emotion, and a unique choice of a narrator, Spinelli successfully makes his readers to feel empathy.

“I looked back to the hole. What if we were digging our own grave?” (128). Lina, the main character of the book, says when forced to dig a hole with three other women. This is just one example of what Lina, her family, and millions of others have to endure while at labor camps. Ruta Sepetys novel, “Between Shades of Gray” shares the story of one family who was arrested and brought to a labor camp. Lina and Jonas were arrested, along with their mother by the Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD). They were separated from their father, taken to the Altai Labor Camp, and forced to work for little food and water. Throughout the story, Ruta Sepetys shows just how much a person can change and learn in one year. In the novel, Lina starts out as a naive girl but becomes a resourceful and intelligent young lady.

Shelter is a book about discovering who you are. It began with a kid named Mickey Bolitare and his uncle, Myron. Mickey witnessed his father’s death so he is now living with his uncle unwillingly. His life falls apart til he meets Ashley. Ashley is a newbie in school like him, and the second he sees her he falls for her. This girl is the reason his life is livable; until she disappears without a trace. He won't let anyone else leave him, he's lost too much already. On his search for Ashley he meets the Bat Lady who tells him his father is in fact still alive. But Mickey watched his father die right in front of him. With this information he breaks into her house and finds nothing. Except for a symbol that he has now seen everywhere. A butterfly. Now his mind is storming with thoughts of if his father really is alive. He continues his search, and he won’t stop until he knows the truth. In the novel Shelter by Harlan Coben the author uses multiple literary elements such as symbolism, conflict and foreshadowing.

Actions taken will determine the future. Caitlin, the author of Zolaria, grew up with her best friend Hanna. They went through their childhood innocence together. When high school arrived they parted ways and life changed. Through her appeal to pathos, Caitlin Horrock’s “Zolaria” establishes that people should not take life for granted; furthermore, her use of foreshadowing and connotative language stresses to readers the importance of living to the best potential.

The author uses sensory details of sounds, smells and feelings to highlight to horror of the violence experienced by Chika. ‘…smell is sickening, of roasted fish, unlike that of any she has ever smelled’. And also author uses future tense and repetition ‘never find her sister’ to highlight the tragedy and horrific event of the war and violence. Throughout the story, the author demonstrates the futility of war and violence identifies that there is no positive affects to anyone at all.

During a person’s teenage years, one is most vulnerable to trauma that occurs around them. In the book Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Marjane lives through a revolution in her own country. The story speaks to her loss of innocence during the revolution and how she goes through her life. In Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie is going through the Holocaust with his father and he witnesses many major and scarring events. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of A Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, the story is about Ishmael and his life as a boy soldier in Sierra Leone. These individuals all lose their innocence at a very young age but it shapes them to be better people later on in their lives.

Aharon Applefelds’ short story Tzili depicted what it would be like to be a maturing teen on the run. Readers will comprehend the true meaning behind the work of Tzili, the tone, connotation, plot, as well as the reason why certain characters were chosen to be portrayed within the story. These characters include: Tzili, Katerina, Mark and Linda. Applefeld’s memoir Story of a Life will also be referenced throughout the analysis in order to provide a parallel to the work of Tzili.

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.

Both Chercover and Madsen’s critiques focus on problems associated with immigration, however Chercover takes the analysis of unsuccessful immigration one step further by concluding that paper acts as the underlying mechanism behind this problem. Paper traps females into constrictive gender roles, which results in the feelings of unhomeliness. Wayson Choy highlights both the positive and negative effects of paper on his characters throughout his novel All That Matters showing how paper provided a means of liberating them from their old life but also applied a constant constraint to each person’s freedom. In the essay that follows, I will explore the role paper plays in the hardships faced by characters in Choy’s All That Matters focusing specifically on females and how paper negatively influences the development of their identity.

The lines between right and wrong are blurred. Huge questions about society are raised that students, like myself, can ask themselves. Minorities face injustices, and genocides are happening every day around the world, even today. If every high school student read the memoir Night, then they could be prepared to end similar injustices and prevent another catastrophic event, like the Holocaust, from happening in our world again.

“The Laughing Sutra” by Mark Salzman takes place in a historically tense time of world relations. While this book tells an enlightening adventure story, it gives insight on world history and scary realities. “How to Read Literature Like a Professor” by Thomas C. Foster gives insight on reading reputable literature by giving readers cognizance on writers’ process. Foster provides concrete instances and ideas that appear throughout the world of writing. Foster brought up many relevant points, but in this case, geography and politics were most prominent in “The Laughing Sutra”.

The plot in the short story “Hindus” demonstrates how a certain sequence of events can help people better understand themselves. Leela meets many different and unique people on her journey throughout

It’s a story talks about Kareem, a young boy in eighth grade. who represents the case of many poor people around the world. He lives with his poor family in an old house, its walls are peeled and the painting was removed day by day leaving some creatures’ shapes on the roof. Kareem tend to meditate upon the roof that just facing his bed, he loves bed time when he looks at the roof right above him and meet diverse creatures, like cow, dog, grass, tree, buries, bird, cloud and a thief. His imagination took him to create different stories of the creatures and fake a conversation with them. “And Kareem harried looking for a grass on the roof, then when he found it he led the caw to its place. Thank you, Kareem. Said the caw. And she promised to

The recuperative power of language is revealed when Liesel begins an intrepid career in book thievery, finding solace in books and words amidst the cataclysmic historical period of Nazi Germany. Liesel’s unconscious desire to overcome her traumatic experiences is discovered within the confines of the basement. This is symbolic as, in Freudian psychoanalysis, the basement represents unconscious drives, repressed fears, traumas and fantasies. In Liesel’s journey to process her trauma and acknowledge new traumas, she psychoanalytically seeks out the comfort of the womb due to the absence of a motherly figure in the form of the basement. Zusak alters the archetypal image of the basement, picturing it as a metaphorical ‘womb’ for Liesel, a place of salvation and safety. “Liesel revisited those dark rooms of her past.” (p. 117) When Liesel discovers it is unlikely she will ever see her biological mother, she retreads underneath the table in an attempt to alleviate her pain. However, when Liesel feels psychologically strong enough to face the trauma of her abandonment, she is able to leave her place of safety and security and share her story with Max. This demonstrates the complexities of trauma and how an individual utilises differing coping mechanisms to confront their psychological suffering. Liesel, whilst opening herself to the pain of others, learns to express and

Every single IB student is gifted with knowledge. With that knowledge comes books and research. It's important for teachers to choose the proper books for their students to read. The most recommended books for grade seven IB students are “Wanting Mor” by Rukhsana Khan and “Red Leaves” by Sita Brahmachari. “Red Leaves” is about a girl named Aisha, a boy named Zak and another girl named Iona who all want to get their happily ever after. “Wanting Mor” is about a girl named Jameela who has to get through her life, having a cleft lip and having her father abandon her. Both books are filled with suspense and plot twists. the book “Wanting Mor” is much more entertaining than “Red Leaves”. “Wanting Mor” had a more engaging plot and it had the suspense that “Red Leaves” didn't have.