An Insect's Wing: Sarajevo By Geraldine Brooks

In Kate Chopin’s “Desiree’s Baby,” she uses several different themes including race and racism, love, and identity: foreshadowing, irony, flashbacks, and local color to show her readers that love can easily be used as a object and not real love. Kate Chopin shows the reader the theme of identity in “Desiree’s Baby”. In “Desiree’s Baby” Kate Chopin states, “Madame Valmonde abandoned every speculation but the one that Desiree had been sent to her by a beneficent Providence to be the child of her affection, seeing that she was without child of the flesh. For the girl grew to be beautiful and gentle, affectionate and sincere, - the idol of Valmonde” (Chopin 1).

The audience can easily get attached to Annamarie who throughout the novel evolves into a brave young woman at the age of thirteen. In the afterword of the text, Lowry discusses that Annamarie’s character was created on behalf of Annelise Platt, a young Denmark Jew during World War II. The books development of characters, and historical accuracy of the text provides readers with a compelling story that they can visualize when discussing the life of Jews in World War II. Other Books: The Silent Boy, The Giver Related Titles: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak: is a novel about a young girl living in Germany during World War II. Both novels are about the effects of World War II and have young children as the protagonist.

Ruth Lynch was a young girl when she read “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Lynch said that it gave her hope that not all Caucasians were evil and eased her fear of living in a racist world. Laura Bush, the former first lady, says Lee’s novel was created to bring the country together despite the many different backgrounds. Actress Tina Sloan explained how her and her friends were awakened and realized just what racial prejudice was. Anna Strasberg, another actress says that she believes the novel will teach people to trust others more and not judge a book by its cover.

Both the epigraph of the book and the first message that appears on Phoebe's doorstep read "don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins. " Sal takes this advice to heart throughout the book, using her visualizations of other people's lives both to inform her own experience and to increase her compassion for others. By placing herself in Mrs. Winterbottom's shoes, Sal generates ideas about how her own mother may have felt at moments in her life. When Sal grows angry with Phoebe, she finds herself wondering if her father feels the same way toward her at times. Sal's ability to envision the stories of others allows her to empathize with Margaret Cadaver, who lost her husband in a car accident, and consequently to put her childish

Throughout the book, Annemarie tells fairytale stories to her younger sister, Kirsti. In my opinion, she does this so they both can escape from the harsh reality of the war. Storytelling has become somewhat of a coping mechanism to deal with what is currently going on in Denmark. She wants her sister to have a “normal” childhood but her sister is used to seeing Nazi control in their country. In the beginning of the story, Annemarie along with her sister Kirsti, and their friend Ellen were stopped by Nazi soldiers.

Go Set a Watchman is a novel written by Harper Lee depicting the ideological conflict that the protagonist, Jean Louise Finch, encounters after coming back to her hometown Maycomb. This written task is an interview conducted a day after Jean Louise witnessed her father Atticus and her friend and potential love interest Hank attending the Maycomb City Council meeting. The intended audience is the fans of the novel who are interested in Jean Louise’s reaction to the shocking reveal of Atticus and Hank’s racist beliefs. Throughout this interview, I intended to fully express Jean Louise’s emotion after finding out her loved ones are in fact racists.

Anne Frank was an adolescent girl that document her experience during the Holocaust. Anne was a Jew and during this duration Jews were treated crudely. She went into hidding to stay unassailable. During this time her only friend was her diary "Kitty". "Kitty" was her only friend that made her feel appropriate to express her feeling and emotion about everything.

“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”(Anne Frank) The Diary of Anne Frank is a book based on the life of Anne Frank that seeks to perceive a child of an age of 13 who began to write in her diary who she called kitty which chronicles her thoughts, secrets and adventures. It is worth mentioning that the book was written during World War II when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and began to harass people of Jewish race. Anne Frank contributed to the understanding of the Holocaust through her diary in which she gives a first hand account of day-to-day life in Nazi Germany. In this situation Anne and her family went into hiding in the attic of her father’s office along with another family, where they were

Along with her sister, Christie’s mother helped her find her first publisher after many rejections. When she got writer’s block, her mother always had advice to help her daughter. Madge influenced her younger sister as well by inspiring her to publish many stories in the newspaper. She also wrote under a pseudonym, which Christie did later in her writing career (Dommermuth-Costa 26). Lastly, she was inspired by the archaeological digs that she did during her life.

Cultural differences is something important to the author herself that somehow helps her to become what she is really today. In the beginning of the novel, there are many traumas deal with cultural differences that the author undertaken. One of the traumas she experienced is when she 's in the United States living with Melvin and his mother, she felt like "she doesn 't want to wear American dress" (Le 16,17). This is understandable when a six-year-old girl wanted to keep her Vietnamese traditional culture. And because she is young,

The organization was to help jews and save them from the horrible effects of the concentration camps. Irea would go through the ghetto and disguise herself as a jew to keep her identity a secret. She would beg parents to let her take their children to safety. She would take them to orphanages, give them new names and identities, and teach them catholic prayers so

Tosia Altman had an immense role in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. She educated the youth and also led the underground part of the resistance. She faced death several times just so that she could help others. For example, she saved people from a burning fire, and spread significant messages that helped people to escape. Now forgotten, she deserves more recognition and her work should be known and taught along with the Holocaust.

Flashbacks are another prevalent literary device as it gives us background information to understand the novel better. An important flashback has Kostas and Elena Vilkas (Lina’s Parents) talking about helping some people escape to Germany. This is later realized by Mr, Stalas as the reason that Lina and her family were deported. Lina puts together the pieces and figures

It reads, “Spread your cloak. Ruth is asking for marriage; spreading a garment over a woman signifies acquiring her.” (Harper Collins Study Bible, 387). Knust also confirms what the Harper Collins Study Bible says by reassuring readers in her own words, saying “Identifying herself, Ruth request that he spread his cloak over her, a forthright request that he take her in marriage.” (Knust, 36).

Anne needed to readapt commonly, as well. From Frankfort, Germany, to the Netherlands, into stowing away in The Secret Annex, lastly being deported to Auschwitz. In spite of the fact that Anne Frank and her family experienced numerous hardships, she stayed confident and refused to relinquish her