The Painted Bird By Jerzy Kosinski

Spiegelman has presented his father’s memoirs in a creative way by portraying racial groups as animals and by making the story into a graphic novel. By presenting it in comic form, Art Spiegelman is able to better capture the emotions of those in the graphic novel. Not a dedication in the conventional sense, the book eternalizes the memoirs of Vladek and those around him.

Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer is a very influential novel in the military. In fact, it is required reading material for all 1st Lieutenants in the Marine Corps as well as in the United States Military Academy at West Point. Many Army leaders have read the book and often discuss it among themselves in social situations. Although a fiction read, many leaders extrapolate the use of mission command as well as the leaderships attributes. In this analysis I will be comparing a single event in the novel to the Army’s leadership principles as well as Mission Command. I will then provide a personal reflection and conclude.

Writing, as described by E.L. Doctorow, is an exploration. In her novel, Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott explores the writing process, providing her insight on stylistic, theoretical, and instructional points. These points are essential in the composure of a book and are prevalent in many literary works such as Tim O’Brien’s The Things they Carried. In his book, O’Brien relives his time on the frontlines of the Vietnam War, telling fictional stories of life before, during, and post war. The novels are tied together with O’Brien’s use of character development, dialogue, and design setting strategies as discussed in Bird by Bird.

“The Route of the Crows” by Cemil Kavukcu is a gothic, short story full of symbolism and foreshadowing. “Though the action takes place in and around a house, the house sometimes seems abandoned and sometimes occupied” (“Elements of the Gothic Novel”). The work is pervaded by a “threatening feeling, a fear enhanced by the unknown, and the plot is built around a mystery of an inexplicable event” (“Elements of the Gothic Novel”). Although the narrator and Ziynet are in a constant state of paranoia and assumption, these assertions pave the way to an undeniable fate alluded by the sight of crows.

. Early on, she asks, “maybe this is the wrong thing?” (8) We wonder, what is she referring to? Slowly, more details are given when he “picked up an object wrapped in a plaid towel” and gives the toast “here’s looking at you kid.” Although not directly stated, the implication is that they drank something. Again indirectly, but toward the end we see the symbolic cranes “stepping delicately away from the commotion,” mirroring the couple’s separation from their life. After they kiss, their eyes close, and the cranes fly away into the sun. The implication, though never direct, is that our couple decided to end their lives together

Nature is a powerful yet underestimated force. Humans depend on the weather to see if they need to dress warm or dress lightly. What if they weather for today dramatically changed so much that you were so unprepared, there would be a chance of death? In “The Birds,” Daphne Du Maurier uses imagery and foreshadowing to present the idea that people are helpless in the face of nature.

BODY 1: ABOUT LIFETadeusz Borowski was born in 1922 in a small town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine. Both of his parents were sent to work elsewhere and his brother was in boarding school. Leading his aunt to raise him. His parents and his brother returned in 1934. Despite his families financial situations and the outbreak of WW2 he studied at secret gatherings and passed all his high school exams. In 1940 he enrolled at an underground polish literature faculty at Warsaw University and became one of their best students. Borowski also earned money as a warehouser at a sale in Praga. He would soon meet the woman who would become his wife, Maria at a monthly magazine meet(culture.pl). In 1942 he published his secret collection Gdziekolwiek Ziemba (Wherever the Earth). He was arrested in 1943 and sent to Auschwitz to a concentration camp then deported to a Dachau camp in Germany (britannica). Many polish men were forced to work for the Nazi’s, as Borowski was one. Immediately

A Doll 's House by Henrik Ibsen, is a play that has been written to withstand all time. In this play Ibsen highlights the importance of women’s rights. During the time period of the play these rights were neglected. Ibsen depicts the role of the woman was to stay at home, raise the children and attend to her husband during the 19th century. Nora is the woman in A Doll House who plays is portrayed as a victim. Michael Meyers said of Henrik Ibsen 's plays: "The common denominator in many of Ibsen 's dramas is his interest in individuals struggling for and authentic identity in the face of social conventions. This conflict often results in his characters ' being divided between a sense of duty to themselves and their responsibility to others." All of the aspects of this quote can be applied to the play A Doll House, in Nora Helmer 's character, who throughout much of the play is oppressed, presents an inauthentic identity to the audience and throughout the play attempts to discovery her authentic identity.

Some believe that birds help express spiritual freedom and psychological liberation with the different colors of birds that are associated with various meanings; specifically the yellow bird means you should keep your guard up. In the novel, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers, John Bartle becomes guarded and isolated because of his internal battles created by his experiences from war. Bartle struggles with the lack of control he has over the events that happen to him in during his time in the military. He fights with his helplessness when he tries to transition to his lifestyle at home. He also cannot control how he changes as a person. When we think of war we think of the physical damage we see on the exterior but what we cannot see is the psychological damage in the interior of a person.

Young love, it is a thrilling time in where the blinded youth cross a field unknown. A field where one must undergo a numerous amount of challenges and temptations. In the short story "A White Heron" the author, Sarah Orne Jewett, tells a story about a blossoming girl who encounters a young man, a typical boy meets girl scenario, so it would seem. The desire to be loved can drive a person to do the craziest of things, especially at a young age. Growing up one can learn to express emotion through every gesture and every facial expression, through that process a person can come to realize their own self-hatred with rejection while living in a world in which people strive to be accepted and crave to be desired. In society each gender must face different experiences through life. As a man one expects a provider, a leader, a hunter and as a woman one is expected to be a caretaker, a follower, as we are simply a man 's prey and conquest. In "A White Heron", Sarah Orne Jewett address a social issue of gender inequality by presenting a story about a man 's urge to control a girl.

All authors have a purpose when writing their stories, and that is to provide a message to their readers. This message is known as theme, and literature from all around the world provide one. The themes of H.H. Munro’s The Open Window, Hernando Téllez’s Just Lather, That’s All, and Alden Nowlan’s The Fall of a City, all relate to humanity, and our roles in society. H.H Munro states that we deceive others of their reality, while Hernando Téllez demonstrates that each person has their own place in society, and Alden Nowlan discusses how one’s actions and words can affect others.

Jerzy Kosinski reveals the barbaric acts of civilians in times of war, showing how war changes our sheer humanity. Passed from village to village, he tells the tale of a small gypsy boy wandering without parents during World War II. The horrific tales of the people who took him in, paint a cruel picture of civilization. Was Jerzy Kosinski take on humanity realistic or erroneous?

In the Painted Bird, the parent’s of a young, six-year-old boy made the decision to send their son to a small town in Poland in order to hide him from the Nazis. During the novel the boy is forced to flee from many different situations he is forced into due to death and oppression. Through his journey, this young boy was abused and unnoticed, eventually turning him into a totally different person. This boy is an outlier in every town he comes into contact with because of his appearance (Kosinki, 1). The locals of the towns that he comes into contact with during his journey see him as a gypsy or Jew. During this time people were persecuted if they were not blonde hair, blue-eyed, and fair skinned. The Painted Bird is a novel that speaks of the troubles that these people went through just because they were different. The narrative helps show that diversity is a good thing and is needed for a society to function properly. The impact this war and violence had on the society caused people to be shameful of humanity because of the unlimited cruelty that took place during this time period.

In 1965, Jerzy Kosinski wrote his controversial novel “The Painted Bird”, which tells the story of a young six year old unnamed boy’s journey to survive during the violence and horrors of World War II. Kosinski shows readers how war can change people, as well as how barbaric human beings can act during wartime. During this time the Nazi sentiment was spreading like wildfire throughout central Europe. Hitler took great measures to ensure that Nazi’s remained in control by using cruelty and violence in creating fear and terror. Those living in Europe were far too scared to go against the Nazis’. The Jewish were not the only enemies of the Germans “Gypsies followed close behind... having no place in Adolf Hitler’s ideal of a racially pure

The eighteenth century marked a period of renewal within Italy. This transition saw the acceptance of new philosophies that were rampant throughout most of Europe (Yawney 2). The Age of Enlightenment, as it has come to be known, brought upon changes within the realms of economic, social, and religious affairs. However, amidst any form of radical change come those who do not attest to it. In his fable, The Green Bird, Venetian dramatist Carlo Gozzi incorporates subject matter that attacks not only the realism seen in Carlo Goldoni’s theatre but also the thought of modern Enlightenment ideology.