The Devil's Arithmetic Analysis

As he continues to wonder, interrogative sentences began to appear such as, “What was after the universe?” and having an alone conversation, “But was there anything round the universe to show where it stopped before the nothing place began?” (3). As a result, the absurd questions demonstrate how the story is becoming more confusing and vexed. In this case, the numerous of curiosity and overthinking is showing the stream of consciousness that the author wanted to portray from the start but, in a contrasting extent. Likewise, another polysyndeton, “First came the vacation and then the next term and then vacation again and then

The Importance of the Minstrel Man Allusion in Fahrenheit 451 As can be noticed by reading even the smallest portion of the novel Fahrenheit 451, Guy Montag’s story is told in mostly metaphors, similes, and allusions. For example, at the very beginning of the story, the author writes, “He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked, in the mirror.” (Bradbury 2). This allusion sets the tone for how the reader perceives Montag throughout the rest of the novel. A minstrel man is a member of a group of entertainers who use ‘blackface’ to portray themselves as a person of color. This was very common in the early 19th century and is now seen as racist, cultural appropriation, and generally

When your brother or sister hits you, you automatically want to hit them back harder or get revenge, right? Elie Wiesel chooses to do the opposite in the story “The Watch.” Elie Wiesel lived in a small religious town, then he was sent to Auschwitz. After being in Auschwitz he was sent to Buchenwald, for his religion. After the war he lived in France, then he moved to the U.S and became a teacher at Boston University. Before the war he buried his watch in his yard and after the war he went back to his old house and unburied his watch.

“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry,“ - Cassandra Clare. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, the author, Ray Bradbury, constructs a futuristic American society in which books are no longer allowed. This creates an ignorant and conformist population, which displays the effects that come from lack of literature. The novel follows the life of Guy Montag who is a fireman. In the novel, the task carried out by firemen is to burn books, not put out fires.

Writers and producers made a lot of pieces talking about WWI during the 20st century but they often approached in many different ways the theme of disillusionment. The Grand Illusion by Jean Renoir and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque each have their own way of talking about disillusionment. The novel is more realistic in describing the perspective of Paul, the protagonist, and what he felt when he discovered the truth about war whereas the movie gives a more allegorical point of view of the war with romantic scenes and no scenes in the “real” front. But an important fact to compare both the movie and the novel is that the authors both participated in WWI but not on the same side and they both got wounded a number of times. The two works talk about disillusionment in two different ways, from two different perspectives and yet they convey the same message about disillusionment; war is never as honorable as it is shown throughout the media.

In Maus, Art Spiegelman records his personal accounts of trying to delve into his father’s traumatic past. His father, Vladek, is a Jew from Poland who survived persecution during World War II. Art wants to create a graphic novel about what his father went through during the Holocaust, so he reconnects with Vladek in order to do so. Due to the horrifying things that the Jews went through he has trouble opening up completely about all the things that happened to him. But after Art gets together with his father many times, he is finally able to understand the past legacy of the Spiegelman family.

A man is frozen with a shocked look on his face staring up at the flea tree. Dog sniffs at the base of the flea’s legs. (Left) Would Digger itch his leaves? The setting is a backyard. Wooden fence lined with bushes and flowers

This is what makes the Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen so much like the movie the Devil’s Arithmetic. Yet both share their differences from one another. The differences between Jane Yolen’s novel, written in 1988, of the Devil’s Arithmetic and the movie, made in March of 1999, are both far and wide and yet rather meager at times. The differences were anything from Hannah’s cousins at the Seder to Hannah being Rivka’s cousin. But each difference was included for a purpose.

For example, “The ceiling leaks, the floor boards wobble, the mailbox won’t shut, the light bulbs are broken, and the clock has stopped” (Capote, 1966). The quote show the used of imagery be giving the reader a view of Holcomb and how old it, because we went to Holcomb and he saw the post office and how it looked. The imagery used to show the locator of Holcomb gives the reader more about the author’s purpose of the nonfiction novel. Rhetorical device is to help the reader connect to the novel like the quote give the reader a view of the rundown places in

In fact, during the rudimentary monologues of characters like Colonel Cathcart, Captain Black and Major Major that make the novel a swashbuckler, it all involves them questioning the almost dreamlike existence of man with a name like that. Yossarian: a character that the author did tribute to by writing Closing time, his 1992 reprisal to Catch-22, and did not fail to add in the latter book’s paperback introduction that his major creation will never die in his own hands but in another’s. So much for James Heller. So much for us the readers who have to keep our ribs on hold tickled by many trials within the book, poignantly metaphysical, where a character asks ‘who is’ that stepping on his feet while a court martial is going on. That alone, if it does not give a hint of how boring, pettish and deviating

While on station after transporting Deadrick Allen, this officer (Ofc. J. Jaques #64) was told by Det Sgt. Sibley #42 to place Allen into cell #3. While in the process of searching Allen 's person before placing him into the cell I located a small ziplock style baggy filled with a green and brown plantlike substance in his front right small front pocket. After removing the baggy Allen began being uncooperative.

Towards the end of the book, O 'Brien talks about the mental change the war creates in your mind that never lets you completely bounce back to civilization. On page 208 and 226, the author explains two strategies the soldiers use to keep themselves sane in Vietnam. They use language tricks, turning miles of marching in the pitch dark was called the “night life”, a burnt body became a “crunchie munchie” or a “crispy critter”; “If it isn’t human, it doesn’t matter much if it’s dead.” On page 215, Tim is new to the war and he hasn’t developed the humor the rest of the guys have, like shaking hands with dead bodies to make the deaths seem less real. The author’s friend, Kiowa, says, “Well, you’re new here. You’ll get used to it.” Eventually, O’Brien does get used to it.

The second time a son had abandoned a father of theirs is when Rabbi Eliahou had frantically searched for his son during The Death March, which is what happened near the end of the war when the Germans began losing. They would round up prisoners and load them up into train cars with little food, water, and other essential things we need as humans. In fact the poor rabbi 's son had actually left to better suit and nourish his way through the camp without having his dying father drag him down. When Elie 's father was nearing the end of his life Elie had tried to help anyway he could. He gave him water, his rations, and carried him throughout the camp even while he wanted to lay down like the other old men from the camp.

On March 3, 1943, Henry, Joey, Smiley, and Tommy got locked up in San Quentin. Henry writes a letter to his family telling them about his experience being locked up in a cell that gave him the feeling of fear and loneliness. “Coming in from the yard in the evening, we are quickly locked up in our cells. Then the clank and locking of the doors leaves one with a rather empty feeling. You are standing up to the iron door, waiting for the guard to come along and take the count, listening as his footsteps fade away in the distance.” (Zoot Suit 1354).

“sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I’m not living.” (pg. 113) Thomas is depressed. He lost his loved ones in a bombing, and he’s the only one that survived. It causes him a lot of pain and suffering. “It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music.”