Symbolism In The White Hotel

Soon, people around the world saw Hitler as a substantial menace as well as a vicious monster, however, people of Germany looked up to him and didn’t want to disappoint him, which made them work even harder and smarter. The terror of disappointment, loneliness, tragedy, and loss clouded their judgement. However, the most important part of this reading was the horror of what would happen if you’d get caught listening to the radio or sending something that shouldn’t be sent. All of the characters in this novel have changed for the better or worse. Fear changes people, and it significantly changed the characters in this

The book did a great job of contrasting good and evil. Two of the main things that Erik Larson compared were the White City and the World’s Fair Hotel. Larson used details to show that the White City held opportunity, jobs, and happiness, while the World’s Fair Hotel was full of darkness and a kiln that lead to the deaths of many people (p. 92). Larson also used lots of detail to juxtapose how Holmes was very calmed and intrigued by death, while Burnham agonized the death of Root (p. 107). These are the two main things that Larson contrasted throughout the book.

So much had changed in so little time. As of yesterday and today, we have been on a train with no food and water. I couldn’t think of anything possibly worse than this. Throughout the night, Madame Schafter, a quiet, kind mother, howled all night about a fire which only she could see, which scared me. If someone so calm and level headed was hallucinating, what was I? “‘Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire!’” (Wiesel 25). What fire was she talking about? Was she talking about the h*ll we were enduring on the cattle car? I had heard rumors that there were crematories wherever we were going, if they were even true. Men in the cattle car tied her up and gagged her, and eventually beat her into silence (Wiesel 26). Although I pitied Madame Schafter, her screaming was driving me crazy, and I too felt the urge to slap her across the face, anything to silence the screaming. I guess that as of now, thinking straight is out of the question. Little did I know that thinking straight would be out of the question for a very long time.

Babi Yar, a poem written by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, tells the story of the Nazi invasion into a small part of Russia, in which, throughout the duration of World War II, over one-hundred thousand Jews, Gypsies and Russian POW's were brutally murdered. However, what is unique about this particular perspective is that the narrator is not a Jew, but a mere observer who is aghast at the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust. It is through allusions, as well as other literary devices, that Yevtushenko elucidates caustically the absurdities of the hatred that caused the Holocaust, in addition to the narrator's identification with the Jews and their history of oppression.

One of the defining elements of literature is its universal nature. Shared between all works, whether they be ancient epics or modern novels, is a plethora of literary techniques and themes. One such element, the theme of isolation, and in some contexts, alienation, is quite evident in the unrelated, yet equally masterful novels As I Lay Dying, 1984 and The Awakening. As one will come to see, this theme of isolation, although clearly similar, differs between, and even within, the three works.

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is the best book and film ever. Ken Kesey the author uses the setting of the story as his most powerful weapon in getting others to understand his viewpoints. In reality it is a bitter commentary on the condition of the American society. Obviously, it is clear in the movie there was symbolism shown. Two examples of symbolism shown throughout the film first would be McMurphy's boxer shorts and secondly, the control panel. The main theme behind One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is that the society that we love so much is not as good as it is made out to be. Ken Kesey's film is a masterpiece. He uses multiple forms of symbolism and shows the truth of society.

"Family isn't always blood. It'd the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are, the ones who would do anything to see you smile, and love you no matter what"(anonymous). In the Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee discovers that sometimes friends care more then family. Relationships are difficult and have changed between Henry, Henry's father, Henry's son, Keiko. Some relationships fall shirt from expectations, while others survive the long haul.

“With a compelling plot, a strong sense of place, and vivid characters, the novel brings to life Hitler’s inexorable rise to power and its impact on an intelligent German family forced to reconsider its loyalties.” written by Kathryn Lasky, the author of Ashes.(NEW, 3) In this novel, we are introduced to compelling characters. It takes place in Berlin in 1932-1933. The main character who is German, Gabriella Schramm was living a happy life not having to worry about anything or anyone. As Hitler slowly started to gain seats in the elections, her family started to worry about what would happen to all of the Jewish people. Karl, Ulla’s boyfriend had a very bad secret he was hiding, but Gaby and her family had no clue until the evening they received

Throughout the twentieth century, the city of Kiev was occupied by various governments, notably the Soviet and the Nazi regimes, during the Second World War. The German army successfully conquered Kiev on September 21st, 1941, after Soviet forces withdrew. Immediately upon German occupation, the planning for eliminating the Jewish population from Kiev began, and was shortly after conducted at the Massacre of Babi Yar, where it has been estimated that any number between 33,771 to 150,000 Jews were murdered. Despite Babi Yar’s involvement in the Holocaust, the events which occurred at Babi Yar were relatively neglected in the studies about the Holocaust. The novel Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel (1970) by A. Antoli (Kuznetsov) has acted as one of few resources which has addressed the massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, as well as the horrific Nazi occupation of Kiev during the Second World War. Kuznetsov was twelve years old upon the Nazi occupation of Kiev and recorded his experience, as well as the experiences of others who survived. The novel has brought light to the oppressive and barbaric nature of the Nazi rule of Kiev which lasted for 778 days. Furthermore, the uncensored version has disclosed how the people living within Kiev acted during the period of Nazi occupation. Prior to this release, Soviet rule had not allowed for any release of information disclosing the massacre of Jews within Kiev during the Second World War. However, due to the oppressive nature of

Lawrence Hill’s third novel, The Book of Negroes, is a work of historical fiction. Hill writes from the view of a pre-Abolition slave narrator. As his first-person narrator, Aminata Diallo, challenges much racism. She tells the story of how her life takes a massive turn at the age of eleven, and narrates her experience of migration in the United States, Sierra Leone, Canada, and finally Great Britain. According to the article ‘The Slave Narrative Tradition in Lawrence Hill’s Book of Negroes’ critics have appreciated Hill’s use of the popular slave narrative form. This novel has won many awards, including a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and a CBC Radio Canada Reads win, since its publication in 2007. Although, critics have been slower to acknowledge The Book of Negroes as an important revisionist work that clings to and undermines a genre.

“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.

‘Raoul Duke’, shamelessly recounts his drug induced hallucinations of “huge bats, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car” and “a huge reptile, gnawing on a woman’s neck” to give the audience the same, bewildered feelings that he felt. The lack of boundaries in the narrator’s speech makes the reader feel as if he or she is experiencing the confusing hallucinations as well, generating a relationship between the reader and Raoul Duke. Thus, the reader’s access to Duke’s struggles against his own mind gives him or her a personal connection to the narrator. Furthermore, Duke often speaks of his “bad waves of paranoia”, expressing to the reader his own fears. This creates an intimacy between journalist and consumer. The two become acquainted through the chapters because Duke’s shared thoughts are so abnormally accessible, a reason why New Journalism was embraced by an estranged

In this essay I will be comparing the disturbing elements in 3 books we have read. These books are The Classic Fairy Tales edited by Maria Tatar, The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The fairy tales and the bloody chamber both are a book with individual stories in them I will be focusing on the fairytale of bluebeard and bloody chamber in The Bloody Chamber and how they relate in their disturbingness and how Lolita is very disturbing too but in a different way. Although these 3 books are a little different they all gave me the same unsettled feeling when reading them.

Throughout the novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford, the characters face discrimination due to their family's heritage. These discriminations continue to escalate throughout the Japanese war on the Americans. The bombings on Pearl Harbor cause much tension between families of Japanese heritage and the families born and raised in America. However, these characters continue to display courage throughout their actions and to stand up for what they believe, even though times are tough. Because of this, bravery is a common theme throughout the entire novel within most of the characters. Specifically, bravery is conveyed by Mr. Okabe, throughout his selflessness within his loyalty to America, dedication to his family, and

I agree with the part the book is based towards a white audience, but I disagree with the part when Wright stated that, “The sensory sweep of her novel carries no theme, no message, no thought.” I disagree with this because the novel has a lot of poetic statements, proving that Wright put in a lot of thought into the book and the characters have a lot of feelings. Not only do the characters have lots of feelings, (love, sympathy, jealousy) but I feel like Wright wants to get a message across to the audience. I would like to talk a little bit about the book and the different messages that they carry.