Symbolism In Sarah's Diary Entry

In the book Sarah’s Key, Sarah goes back to the apartment where she left her little brother. She unlocked the secret cupboard to find him deceased. This completely tore her heart. I feel so bad for her. Sarah is pretty hard on herself. I do not think that she will ever be able to forgive herself. Thinking that she was responsible for her brother’s death really makes her think worse about herself.

In a future that seems so barbaric and unbelievable, many aspects of our society today can be seen. American families work so that they may purchase lawn ornaments which hang from a rack and are perceived as a very beautiful display. These decorations, called SGs or Semplica Girls, are shipped in from the poorest countries in the world. These lawn ornaments exhibited as a sign of wealth are living women working a physically demanding job in order to get minimal compensation that can be put towards providing their family with a better life. In his short story “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” George Saunders uses symbolism to show that the tiny wire that connects Americans to immigrant workers is invisible to some but painful to most.

Gwen is an emotionally challenged character and is unable to perceive individuals intentions with the lack of knowledge and the need of materialistic possessions to feel secure about life. Due to Gwen’s harsh experience in the depression, Gwen is demanding in every aspect of her relationship and isn’t able to clarify the emotions of others. “There! Are they there? Can you see a set of keys I can’t. Can anyone see a set of keys? Gwen is trying to find the keys by taking everything out, illustrates the symbol of the lack of key to life, which is a reflection or change in perspective to rediscover and solve issues in life. Parallel characterisation and irony is highlighted to encapsulate that Gwen is self-absorbed and oblivious of her surrounding and her actions because Gwen isn’t able to realise that she is what she portrays her daughter to be. You know what you are becoming? Snide. A nasty, snide girl. No one likes a snide girl...” As Gwen has loss of control with her relationship with people becomes a need for Gwen to review every phase of her life. The metaphoric baggage is trying to shut the range of chaos and emotion, and the baggage that Gwen is holding, the emotional baggage “They struggle with the case until it is shut” Meg carries this baggage to show that Gwen is affecting others around her and is in need of a self-discovery. Discovery

Diaries are used to write down current events of one’s life so they can be read in the future, most likely by the same person. Nancy’s Diary therefore symbolizes the future that she’ll never have, due to her being murdered. This pertains to the theme because the theme of the story is about the loss of innocence; a family was murdered in cold blood, rendering the town suspicious of one another and afraid. The Silver Dollar symbolizes the senselessness of the crime- right after Perry finds a silver dollar, it rolls away and he finds himself aware of the fact that he is currently ‘Crawling on [his] belly to steal a child's silver dollar. One dollar.” It is clear that in this quote he understands how foolish he and Dick are being by robbing this family, only to later kill them. This adds to a whole different theme of the book, that being the commonality of evil- Dick and Perry are described as ‘persons unknown,’ almost as if they are a non-tangible force of evil that’s come to take away the serenity of people’s live in

The rose bush is directly stated by Hawthorne that it might represent a sweet moral blossom. It can also be shown as “To

The characters in Sarah’s Key who want to remember the Vel’ d’Hiv want to learn from and about the life changing time. Julia Jarmond, one of the story’s main protagonists, is a journalist who is researching the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup. While looking into the French event

But soon she realized that you can’t be in control of everything when she accidently burnt down a hotel. Another example of symbolism is The Joshua Tree. Rose Mary, Jeanette’s mother, is a believer of independency and wants her children to take care of themselves so that they can overcome difficulties which will be worth the struggle in the end. Rose Mary loves the Joshua Tree because of its struggle to grow and its beauty, she says, “it’s the Joshua’s Trees struggle that gives it beauty” (The Glass Castle, pg. 38). The struggle in both the Joshua Tree and children help them to become firm and well rooted in their beliefs and morals.

The story of Sarah touched the lives of many characters in the book “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana De Rosnay. Sarah had such a profound impact on every character in the book, whether it is the scarring and unforgettable memories they have of her or new information they have gathered from the past. Julia invested her entire life into finding out more about Sarah, her life, and what happened to her after a daring escape from a concentration camp. She sacrificed her marriage and many personal relationships because she cared so deeply and passionately about Sarah and what had happened to her. Julia blocked out all of the negative opinions and people telling her to stop and worked nonstop to learn the truth, to never close her eyes on the past. The brutal past of Sarah left a

The French originally built these camps to receive Spanish refugees. (“Nazi Transit Camps: Drancy”). The camps were built for about 700 to stay, but approximately 7,000 people were held there, they were again faced with poor conditions. Of the 7,000 people there 3,000 died and the 4,000 remaining were shipped off to Auschwitz where they were sent to be killed. (“Nazi Transit Camps: Drancy”) Upon arriving at Drancy the Jews were subject to violent searches, and their heads were shaved. Everyone that went through the camps were all eventually sent to Auschwitz and murdered, there was approximately 1,000 people every 2/3 days murdered at Auschwitz. (“The

Symbolism is what gives a story a deeper and more insightful meaning. It can be a person, object, action, place or an event that in addition to its literal meaning, suggests a more complex meaning or range of meanings. Throughout this short story, many things have been symbolized to a more in depth meaning. A major symbol in the story that is talked about over and over again is the curse. This curse symbolizes the need to complete unfinished business. When the overpowering feeling of hunger struck the husband, it instantly brought him back to the original bakery. Since he technically didn’t rob the original bakery, the curse was lingering over him to do so. This symbol relates back to the theme of choice because the husband had the choice of

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “The Birth-Mark,” there are a variety of symbols representing control, the earth, man, and nature. These themes all tie together in the characters along with the bigger symbols of the story. Characters in this story are symbols with ideas of control and how they control one another. Aylmer controls Georgiana, Aminadab, and he attempts to control nature by removing his wife’s birth mark. In the story, nature controls every character in ways like killing Georgiana and putting the spot on her cheek in the first place. There are themes of man versus nature with Aylmer trying to eliminate the birth mark, Aylmer controlling Aminadab, and his occupation of a scientist who tries to control nature. The main symbols in “The Birth Mark” are of control and nature, seen through many characters and concepts in the text.

Sarah's Key contains some of the most powerful, heart-wrenching scenes ever filmed -- and this is not sensationalism, but truth. This film is important for making everyone aware of a particularly horrific episode in France during World War II and -- if you didn’t know -- what human beings are capable of, for ill as well as for good.

“The Keep” by Jennifer Egan holds many symbols and themes that have to be isolated from the rest of the filler text. Within my Part 1 project, I tried to make it clear that Howard thought of his castle as a place where your imagination can be kept and where other’s imagination can be kept as well. The third picture, or the Santa slide, represents the feeling of children very well because a staple in the life of a regular child includes the tradition of sitting in his lap and telling him what you want.

Marynelle Jacob Recreative Approach Relentlessly he beats the drum. Faster. Faster. Staring out. He pounds on and on until the final blow rings out and stops He stares at the caravan. Takes out a match, sets the caravan on fire. He stands back watching the caravan burst into flames. GINGER comes running towards JOHNNY. Ginger. Johnny! What the fuck did you do er͛ mate?! Johnny. (Turns his head towards Ginger) Why are you back again? Didn͛t I tell you to go away? I told you, I aint your mate. Never was, never will be. You got that boy? Johnny Byron is nobody͛s mate. Ginger. I ain͛t going nowhere without you. Johnny. Didn͛t stop you the first time. Pause. Ginger. I was pissed off- Johnny. Pissed off? (Scoffs) You weren͛t the one that got pissed

But to sum all this up ,the material, grooves, teeth all make up the key that represent you and the things that you to achieve and that you are capable of unlocking that with the right things. Such as I have mentioned before that you must be focused and stay that way and persevere through the path that you want to take to achieve your goal. Where you will have to take steps and make hard easy decisions that will benefit you and take risk as well as you progress. Then skill and ability that you earn as well will be used to unlock what you want and your friends, connections, and assets will also help you get there all of this is used to open that door that leads to everyone hope and dream and goals that everyone wants to achieve. So in conclusion all of this is what the social significance of the key is and how it relates to others and that you are the key to your hopes and dreams. And that just anything can have social significance examples where household items like then key in the essay and that it represent reaching goals through sacrifice. drive, commitment, dedication, and