Rose : A Young Girl With Brown Hair And Blue Eyes

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.

Once the family got off Ellis island they started looking for uncle Patrick's apartment. Patrick gave ma directions so they soon find it. There greeted by Elsa who would have slammed the door if them if it weren't for Patrick inviting them in. Elsa doesn’t like Rose’s family and Roses family doesn’t like Elsa’s family. That night Patrick lets all of them wash up in his apartment bathroom. Rose describes how she is very thankful of the bathtub size and the running hot or cold water because conditions were a lot less convenient in Ireland.

A guy she couldn't and wouldn't talk about, was it her father? It sounded as if she had hatred against him. Her father wasn’t there for her and caused her mom do all the work to support both of them. Another reason she had to not like Caucasian men, yet she fell for Jordan. Unless Jordan fell for her, as said in the last sentences of the first stanza, He attempted to get close to her, but she didn’t feel comfortable. The hatred must have been strong or else she would have accepted her own feelings as well, but instead denied them. The second stanza lost me, How was the fire created? Was it actually a fire or a metaphor, maybe comparing her life to a fire, however, there are people and she gets saved. Do the people mean something or did someone start the flame? Sue began to hear herself yell during the horrible fire, how did it happen for her to become part of the fire? Where did it happen for tons of despair on people’s faces? “Until his arms had lifted her, into wild and secret dark.” His? Jordan or the father? It had to be Jordan, they escaped into the forest. Yet, they left everyone behind while the fire was still occurring in the town. Why the woods? What are they trying to hide from? It seemed too fast for everything to occur, First they meet and fall in love, then a fire occur and they run away into the woods. Did Jordan start the flame? Did he do it to become closer to Sue and seem as a hero? The second and

| 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.

Rose is glad that the minister “[is] not going to mention God” (14), but instead the man starts to harass her, a far more grotesque action, bringing a sense of irony to the story. At this point, Rose starts to question the ethics of society, and this can be seen not just as confusion, in the context of the story, but also as a further exploration of youthful bewilderment about established values from a young age such as mutual respect and the integrity which adults are expected to uphold. Even towards the end of the story, Rose “could never understand what recommended [the minister]” when she decided to self-pollute at a later stage of her life. The lack of answers is the very reason why Rose attempts to consider multiple perspectives at once in hope for more answers, motivating her development through adolescence.

Leland writes as if Rose has been cheated out of something he loved dearly, making the reader feel bad for Rose. Leland talks about how much Rose used to love baseball and how Rose dedicated his life to it. Leland explains how Rose’s trials, “Stir intense passions--for fairness, forgiveness and a second chance”. The reader feels as if Rose is not even getting a fair chance when Leland explains how the commissioner of baseball will not even listen to Rose’s case. Facts like these make the reader side with Rose before even hearing each side’s case. Leland appeals to the reader’s emotions in this case because most people feel that even the lowest of people deserve a second chance, a chance for Rose to reform his lifestyles. Leland quotes Rose saying, “Even Charles Manson gets a hearing every two years”. Leland agrees that Rose deserves a chance.

Rose tries to find support in many people such as her mother, but her mother too “busy” with other things like work and won’t even visit Ivy. She also looks towards Jimmy Wilson, the boy who has had a crush on Rose since the second grade, but finds only a shy boy who needs to focus on his own emotions before someone elses. Rose turned toward William T., the boy who has been driving her to the hospital everyday and her loving neighbor. He was always there for Rose and would do anything to help her being the considerate friend he is. Rose, though gratefully to have William T. by her side, did not find what she need within her friendship with the sweet boy.

My reaction to Alice Walkers piece ARoseLily@ was quite interesting and confusing. Interesting in the way she wrote the wedding ceremony different from the main story. Confusing because you, the reader, have to read really carefully to see what the plot was. Overall, once I got the hang of reading her style it became clear to me how she felt and what the story was that she was trying to introduce. There was definitely a lot of symbolism in the story. First of all, the name A Roselily @ means A beauty and perfection, happiness and grace and lily means purity, and guiltless@(Symbolism in literature pg.3)

The stairs creaked under her feet as Esperanza walked down the stairs and onto the cold hardwood floor. The house was dark and the atmosphere sad. Mama and the rest of her family were nowhere to be found. She looked down at her hands and remembered the day before when she had pricked her finger on the thorn of a rose, harboring bad luck. Had the rose really caused that much trouble? She couldn’t believe how much something so small could change her life so much.

In Rosen’s article, she highlights the harsh effects of images on the coming generations. Supporting the same argument, Hymowitz discusses how history is destroyed by the images posted in the mass media websites. Rosen quotes Camille Paglia on one of her observations of her students “young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them” (10). Paglia says that “young people” are destructed by the images and their future becomes indefinite. In the past, children used to inherit culture, traditions and even behaviors which enable them to become experts in facing life’s obstacles such as lack of self esteem, making decisions and managing time.

Rose is a true villain, not life or even death will stop her from getting what she wants. She will take what she wants even if it means she needs to harm or kill someone. With her dark powers and sinister thoughts she will slice through any that try to get between her and her goals. Her motives are truly despicable, So despicable she would come back from the dead to achieve them.

Whenever she walks through the doors alone, it is showing her entering into the business market as a monopoly. When she walks further in, and takes her drink, it was like they were welcoming her into the world of business. She begins to talk about how she has trials and tribulations to get to where she is going to. This could be explained with a financial crisis like she was going through herself because she was not able to have the money to get the building that she wanted. When she pushed the ladder back up to the man who was falling, it had shown how she was not going to let anything stop her from making it to the

First Rose thought of how she found out that her BFFs were cock blocking her. It was after her last boyfriend, Bryan, refused to even kiss her, let alone touch her. She was frustrated with him and all her past boyfriends that wouldn't so much as go past a little groping. Rose wouldn't stand for it anymore so she had Donna look into for her. Donna had said that Bryan was threatened by all three men that if he touched Rose that they would kick his ass, each one would get a chance to beat the mess out of him. Rose was only a little mad until Donna said that she did some digging and

Sleeping Beauty is a tale known for a princess who pricks her finger, falls into a deep sleep, and a prince comes and awakens her with a kiss. Anne Sexton’s interpretation of this fairy tale, however, explores incest/rape, and the darker side of the Briar Rose’s life. Briar Rose is an innocent child in the beginning, who is unknowing of the grossness of her father’s actions. Throughout the entire poem, he is very sexual towards her in his actions and the way he speaks. The King had a christening party for his daughter, but was only able to invite twelve fairies. The thirteenth fairy was upset and cursed Briar Rose; she would die on her fifteenth birthday by pricking her finger, however another fairy altered it so that Briar would go into a

Over the next 3 days a lot of changes came to Brook. First Mary enlisted her in a private school and introduced her to all the kids her age in the neighborhood. Brooks friendly personally won her the respect and friendship of all the kids. Lastly Brook was taken to the one place she had always wanted to go but her father had never let her. not to some amusement park or some fancy store but her mother’s grave! She had longed to see the place where her mouther was last seen on this earth but her father had never let her go even when she tried to sneak out he would always find her before she got to the grave. As she looked down on the headstone something caught her eye. In the place where the ashes were supposed to go there was a saying it said “love is all you will ever need to get though life”! though touching to Luke and Mary it meant something more to Brook. She knew that saying. One of her only memories of her mother was her telling her that every night. Brook was sure that her mouther had made her father put that on for her but why. As she looked at the grave stone something clicked. In her old house there was a picture of her mouther in a large frame on the wall that her father never took down never dusted nothing and if she touched it she was badly punished. On the bottom of the photo was that saying. She turned to her new parents and asked if she could go look at the photo they agreed eager to find out if it meant something. At the house