Metaphors Used In Yolen's Briar Rose

Two very different pieces of holocaust literature speak to their audience with similar purposes, yet unlike tones. Each author uses particular writing tools to drive these. Jane Yolen’s novel, The Devil's Arithmetic, is about the harsh conditions in the death camp, and has a tone of admiration for the Jews. Peter Fischl’s poem, To the Little Polish Boy Stand with His Arms Up, is a tribute to an individual in a ghetto. His tone of fulminate, is quite distinct. Both authors have universal pleas, asking us to recall the fear that lived in the Jews.

What can a person do if their language is tainted with malevolent intentions towards others, how about after sixty millions of their own people are inhumanly slaughtered with little to no respect? Nothing can ease a person’s trauma and torment, attempting to explain an event of such horrific context is extremely for a survivor of said event. However, another problem arises, how one thoroughly explains an event that they desperately do not want to relive. Many Holocaust survivors, who are literary geniuses, use a variety of methods in order to express their opinions and experiences to the reader. Elie Wiesel’s use of repetition, Art Spiegelman’s use of a bizarre genre to create symbolism while explaining euphemisms, and many survivors opening up to the younger generation at Holocaust themed museums.

Two extremely differentiating documents of the Holocaust relay to their audience unlike tones, yet similar purposes. Both authors use specific writing tolls to share their insightful information about the Holocaust with their audience. Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, concerns the inexplicable the inexplicable dehumanization of people in death camps. The fact that she is a Jew in real life contributes to the tone of compassion through pure demoralization. However, Peter Fischl poem, “To The Little Boy Standing With His Arms Up,” has a tone of regret, ignorance, and what it is to be a bystander, Both authors have a universal message. They want us to think, react, understand, teach, remember, learn, and respect the disheartening tragedy of the holocaust.

Two compelling novels going back to the dreadful past during World War II Holocaust, including the death camps with millions prisoners, The Devil's Arithmetic, by compassionate Jane Yolen, and aggressive Peter Fischl’s poem,”The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up, are analyzed progressively. Both writings have a similar purpose and meaning. Both of the outstanding writings inform about history repeating. But, both of the writings also talk about how the innocence of the Jews are coping with their past. Yolen’s novel speaks about the Jewish traditions, and the death camps in the history of the Jews. Peter Fischl poem talks about an innocent boy standing unjustly with his arms up.

Both the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust were major historical atrocities that occurred in the 19th century. These genocidal events were recorded in many different forms; however, if one wants to understand how victims of these acts behaves then one must read a memoir. Memoirs provide evidence of violence toward women and real-life survival and coping mechanisms; however, there is a problematic issue of the author’s memory of the historical events of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Therefore, I will use the memoirs Black Dog of Fate, wrote by Peter Balakian, and All But My Life, written by Gerda Klein, to discuss these topics.

The award winning novel Briar Rose (1992) by Jane Yolen, is a story about Becca Berlin growing up with her sisters and Grandmother Gemma and her quest to uncover the mystery of Gemma’s Jewish past in Poland, during World War II. This story influences the readers’ understanding of history, because it teaches the reader about the Holocaust and the experiences of the Polish and Jewish people during the period of Nazi Germany. The novel Briar Rose is influenced by the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, also known as Briar Rose. This novel may be fantasy fiction, but it still conveys a great deal of truth and addresses the issues of good and evil, suffering and survival and life and death.

Two holocaust wirings showed the world the horrors and facts of the naizs intention to slaughter the jews “The Devil's Arithmetic” and To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up.The Author of “The Devil's Arithmetic” Jane Yolen ends with a tone of compassion and recognition and informs us of the death camps and the sacrifice the Jews made Yolen also uses tools to draw in her readers tools like her personal experience of being a jew and family connection with the death camps and also facts. But in the poem To The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up by Peter L. Fischl, he makes more of a tone of shame and guilt, and how the world didn't do anything to help anyone. Fischl uses tools like capitalization and repetition.

The highlights of The novel boldly interweave the past and present, of storytelling without hiding the universal truth and unravel the cruel beauty of and reality which is told in a brilliant but modern retelling that undoubtedly has its roots firmly based in the dark secrets of the Holocaust. This story is told in a beautiful, haunting and tragic way and manage to be able to weave a unique web of symbolism that offers a direct beginning-to-end storytelling technique.

So in Snow-White and Rose-Red, Grimm’s Fairy Tales,uses one aspect,to define, strengthen, and to illustrate the elements of work...

There are countless pages written by many authors detailing the accounts of the Holocaust. Some of these authors experienced the brutality and horrors of life in a concentration camp first-hand; while, others wrote about their experiences from outside perspectives. In this essay, two of these authors will be compared to one another in order to answer the question of how one tells a survivor’s story. Moshe Flinker, a young Jewish diarist living in Belgium, and Tadeusz Borowski, author of This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, will be compared on the methods that each writer uses to describe their respective experiences, the perspective from which each narrative is told, and the outlook that each author portrays regarding their own futures after the war.

The words “once upon a time” automatically conjure up images of princesses, castles, and fairy godmothers, but do we as readers ever examine these stories closer? When we stop and dissect a work of literature, we may find that its meaning may not be quite as clear as we had originally believed. Fairy tales have powerful but subtle meanings that are as magical as the stories themselves. Double meanings can become more apparent through close examination of the language, the form and content of dialogue within the text, and variations between different versions of the same fairy tale. When these strategies are applied to the well known fairy tale Snow White, it becomes increasingly obvious that there is more to the story than an evil stepmother

Donkeyskin is a fairy tale about a princess who faces difficult challenges but manages to overcome them in the end. The King’s wife dies and with the intention of keeping the king unmarried for the rest of his life, she makes him to promise that he will marry an awesome woman like her. The situation forces the king to propose to her daughter who is even better than the queen. The tale focusses on the idea that good can always triumph over evil. It revolves around the flight of the princess to escape the awful marriage to his father (Perrault, 1977).

Once upon a time fairy tales were born. Many of the fairy tales we have learned were first written between 17th and 18th century, even though their real origins could be traced further back1 in myth, stories, and legends passed down orally. Some first known authors are Giambattista Basile in Italy, Charles Perrault in France, and the Grimm Brothers in German. The two last authors being considered more collectors or such stories2. Interestingly each one created their own versions based on their reality and the audience they were writing for, and such tales had a content highly politic and violent in some cases. Nevertheless, such tales were not the sweetened version we have been exposed to because they were created in a different time in which

The existence of fairy tales have been around for years, throughout the years there have been many interpretations and retells of the stories, an example is Little Red Riding Hood, this traditional fairy tale is one known in different forms. Overall Little Red Riding Hood’s topic in most of the retells is to listen to parents, since they know best. In Grimm’s version, “Little Red Cap”, the theme is about the loss of childhood innocence, obeying parents, as well as being cautious with one 's surroundings. Meanwhile, Angela Carter’s feminist version of the film “The Company of Wolves”, is about the loss of sexual innocence. Although there are many details within both the film and the story that are relatively the same, there are also aspects that show the difference in both female protagonists. Even though there are many alternatives of the story, each one is open to interpretation, it depends on what the reader considers to be the symbolism involved in each of the stories and what they could mean, as well as how the actions of the protagonists and certain characters could change the overall theme. A story has the capability of dramatically changing due to the protagonists and the way they are portrayed.

In this modern day and age, numerous animated and film adaptations of the classic fairy tales of renowned authors such as the Grimm brothers, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen, to name a few, have fed our imaginations with wonder with its surreal and magical creations of their fantasy world where there is an absolute line between good and evil, right and wrong, and the protagonists and antagonists. To be fairly frank, we think that the modern retelling of those classic tales to children by the storybooks and through the media and film industry is detrimental to them in their perception of reality, in building up their self-image and the development of their absolutist view of good and evil.