Jane Yolen Essays

“Mama Gone”, by Jane Yolen, Mandy Jane-the daughter of a now vampire-helps Papa to hunt Mama down in order to protect the rest of the village from being attacked by her. Papa did not follow the vampire ritual after Mama died, leading her to a life of blood sucking. Mandy Jane and her father must find a way to protect all from Mama. A lesson that the author brings up in the story is that it is important to have inner strength in times of crisis. The inner strength that Mandy Jane has is shown in

Throughout The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen and The Color of Fire by Ann Rinaldi, there were many obvious similarities but also several key differences. While analyzing the two stories, comparisons between characters, setting, point of view and theme became apparent. Both stories discuss characters who overcame a struggle in their lives. These historical fiction pieces help readers understand the hardships of certain historical events and the reality of life for people living in those eras. The

It is about her life before she is transported to Poland 1942 and then during, while she is there. Both a movie and book have been made of this tale, but they are not both exactly the same. To begin with, The Devil’s Arithmetic was written by Jane Yolen and published in 1988. It is her original work in what she was trying to commemorate to others. Furthermore, a movie by the same title, The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Donna Deitch, which was released on March 28, 1999. These are two different types

Fairy tales are characterized by their happy endings. In “Briar Rose” by the Grimm Brothers this is seen in Briar Rose’s marriage to the prince. Jane Yolen’s version of Briar Rose, however, differs greatly from the Grimm Brothers’ in answering what a happy ending implies. Yolen does not shy away from the trauma that Gemma, a Holocaust survivor, endures and subsequently, how it changes the way she deals with her past. In her version of Briar Rose, she transforms into a princess woken by true love’s

deep desire for freedom and escape. Yet the apprehension of capture is standing in the way every time. Such is the Devil’s Arithmetic. 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

Imagination is usually found in dreams or in young children. Particularly Jane Yolen, this becomes reality when she composes fantasized books. As her emotions go through a roller coaster, her books carry on the same mood. Yolen produces stories with a fictional tone that reflects her life through advanced education, family journeys as a soldier’s daughter, and her desire to read. As for starters, Jane Yolen's influence was first surrounded by her family. Her father was a soldier, so she stayed with

¨The arithmetic, the numbers. You add, you subtract, and there are no more Jews.¨ And there was one person who captivated us with her words, Jane Yolen. Which was later made into a movie, directed by Donna Deitch. NEED A THESIS STATEMENT The book and the movie are very much the same an immense amount of ways. The book,The Devil's Arithmetic, written by Jane Yolen and published 1988. It revolves around a girl by the name of Hannah Stern. A young jewish girl who is taught the importance of the Holocaust

“Suzy and Leah,” a story by Jane Yolen, is a story that teaches many life lessons. The story's main character is Suzy, an average school girl, and Leah, a refugee during World War Two. When refugees arrive and start going to Suzy’s school, it is the English-speaking students’ job to get paired with a German refugee, and Suzy gets paired with Leah. Suzy and Leah’s relationship changes over time, but one thing we can learn is to not judge somebody before you know them. The feelings that Suzy had towards

I read the story, "Suzy and Leah," by Jane Yolen which is a wonderful short story about two young girls who are brought into each other’s lives by fate. The theme of this story is how a relationship between two friends can evolve over time. Leah is a Jewish refugee from Germany that was held in a concentration camp, while Suzy is a girl who was born in the United States and has the typical life of a child in their early teens. They first meet at the refugee camp in the United States, where Leah lives

The two resources used in English II were Night by Ellie Weisel and Life Is Beautiful, co-written and directed by Roberto Benigni, both set in the midst of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is difficult historical subject for teenagers to understand. It is hard, almost impossible, for teenagers to comprehend, simply, the vast death toll. The number of people that died due to this genocide is so great that it doesn’t impact a teenager’s mind in the way that someone would expect. Those numbers become more

standard. This author fought against it by showing how being fat is pretty too. The poem “Fat is Not a Fairytale” by Jane Yolen talks about the acceptance of being fat and the media’s negative outlook on it. The poem describes the wish of wanting positive fat representation rather than anorexic, life threatening waists that are considered “pretty” to media’s standards. A way Yolen shows she wants princesses to be fat is through making puns of their names by twisting them to be related to being overweight

Elie Wiesel and Jane Yolen both use metaphors to incorporate the theme of survival into their novels. Ellie looks into the mirror for the first time since before the concentration camps because he is now free and realizes how much he has changed. The author writes, “ from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me .” (Wiesel 115) In this quote, Ellie views himself as a corpse. He has changed a lot mentally and physically in the concentration camps. Fifth quote demonstrates the theme

“Suzy and Leah” In the story “Suzy and Leah”, written by Jane Yolen, is a girl named Suzie and a girl named Leah. They do not enjoy spending time with each other and don’t understand one another. Towards the end, the two girls start to connect and start on a path to friendship. When the story opens Suzy is standing at the edge of the fence and handing the other children candy. She looks over and sees Leah standing and staring at her. ”She was just standing to one side, staring at me. It was so creepy

In ¨Suzy and Leah¨ by Jane Yolen. This story is about two girls who write in their own diaries everyday about almost the identical things. There relationship was a little malicious when they first met. The refugees got brought america to be saved by the Germans. After they read each other's diaries they got to know each other's perspective. Also got to know each other by being partners in school. Leah is a refugee from Germany who moved to America when the war is still going on in 1944

The main character,Suzy, in “Suzy and Leah”, by Jane Yolen, is a young girl in the United States who is partnered with a refugee of the Holocaust. At first Suzy and the girl have negative feeling toward each other, but eventually they come to understand each other and develop a friendship. Suzy eventually learns what Leah had gone through and now knows how to be a better friend to her. In "Suzy and Leah" Suzy changes her perspective on Leah throughout the story. At the beginning of the story, Suzy

In Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah”, Suzy and Leah have very different opinions about one another but soon find out about their similarities. Leah is a German-Jewish refugee who came to the United States to escape Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. After living in a refugee camp for a while, Leah and the other refugee children began to attend Suzy’s school. Suzy is an ordinary American girl. She is walking to the refugee camp near her home with two candy bars and sees the conditions the refugees live in. She

Suzy and Leah The story ¨Suzy and Leah¨ by Jane Yolen is about two girls writing in their diaries as they get to know each other. They each had a different perspective of how the other one´s life was, and what the other one was like. At first they didn't like each other, but towards the end, those feelings changed and they got to know each other. Suzy and Leah both learned that they shouldn't always assume things about people. In the beginning, Suzy assumed that Leah was weird. She didn't take any

In the short story “Suzy and Leah”, by Jane Yolen, two young girls named Suzy and Leah learns a lot throughout the passage. From the beginning, they didn’t bother asking about each other, and rather just assumed. Near the middle, they started to get to know each other. In the end, both girls learn about each other and become good friends. The two girls, learn to understand how to find a true friendship. Suzy and Leah learned a lot about finding a true friend. When the story first started Suzy and

In the story “Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen, two girls, Suzy and Leah, at first didn’t get along, but over time they found a way. Suzy was visiting a place where refugees were brought, bringing a candy bar with her, and all the kids swarmed over by her but one girl didn’t. That one girl, Leah, thought Suzy was a fake girl. Eventually, they both come to know what happened to each other and their personalities. When Suzy first went to where the refugees were kept, and she had found that girl that looked

Suzy and Leah The story “Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen, is about two young kids during WWII. This story has two different perspectives. Suzy is a refugee from Germany under Hitler’s command and Leah is a nice, friendly girl from the U.S. They both became friends in the end, but at the start they didn’t like each other at the start. In the story Leah and Suzy’s feelings changed from the time of meeting each other and eventually becoming friends. Suzy started out life in Germany and then came to