The incident of the bread shows parallels to what Zusak’s mother witnessed and told him about in her stories. The author drew inspiration from his parents’ stories from living through Nazi Germany. Germany at the time was blindly supporting an inhumane ideology, led by their dictator Hitler, in war and treating the Jewish
The poems “American Primitive” by William Jay Smith and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath have woven into them an over arching theme of a non-idyllic, problematic father-child dynamic, however each poem`s respective tone showcase two different, separately striking effects this dysfunction can have on the child. While “American Primitive” is a contemporary ballad consisting of three stanzas, each constructed by four lines, Sylvia Plath`s “Daddy” is a longer, distraught, poetic tirade of a more confessional nature. “Daddy” uses metaphors of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. “American Primitive” gives reader a feeling one would have seeing an orphaned child, smirking unnaturally, at the funeral. Both poems are rich in material, just waiting to be dug up, interpreted, and reinterpreted again.
Cinderella herself being, a sibling to awful step-sisters, is forced to be their personal slave, thus starting the rivalry between the characters. Bettelheim connects this to sibling today and how they may feel insignificant compared to their older siblings. This rivalry makes the unappreciated youth yearn for acceptance from his parents, the true source of the rivalry as the author reveals later in the essay. Employing valid, biblical examples of Joseph and his brothers, the author successfully establishes the seriousness of how jealousy can affect siblings in competition for parental affection. Moving past the actual competition for attention, Bettelheim focuses on a more underlined effect of sibling rivalry.
Through Slyvia Plath’s poetry we were able to see these themes demonstrated, two poems in which exhibit these themes are ‘Daddy’ and ‘Lady Lazarus’. These themes all seem to play a large part in Sylvia’s poem ‘Daddy’ as this poem is about a vital turning point in her life. The poem talks about her feelings for her father and then it eventually turns to her feelings for her husband. This shows how she was in a fragile state of mind with herself saying that she is a Jew and her father a Nazi along with being a Devil and Vampire. This particular poem was very confusing as she often changes how she feels about the issue at hand; she goes from worshipping her father like a god of some kind to hating him and wishing revenge on him and then to saying how he is ideal model figure.
He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours.” (Zusak 255) Hatred and a longing to fight the Fuhrer is understandable for Max who is a Jew; however, he rightfully teaches Liesel, a German, to despise the dictator too. Later, when her town is bombed, and her family and friends are killed, Liesel demonstrates a vast hatred towards the ruler of Nazi Germany. More than
Blood Brothers How effective is Russell in creating a sense of tension and conflict for the audience between Mrs Lyons and Mrs Johnson in Act One and who does our sympathy lie with most and why? Blood Brothers, written by Willy Russell is a play set in Liverpool spanning the late 1950s to early 1980s. It tells the story of a working class mother and her unborn twins later to become Eddie and Mickey. There are several key themes in the play: friendship, superstition, class and religion. These key themes are evident throughout Act 1 and are used by Russell to explore the relationship between his main characters and to challenge the audience to consider the morality of their behaviour.
In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne created a character that was truly capable of the embodiment of all that is evil. Mr. Roger Chillingworth, A false name that he had adopted to hide his true identity and intentions. Hester knew his true identity for he was her missing husband Roger Prynne. Chillingworth is a complex person, who had for most of his life hunted for thought and knowledge to increase his intellect “the book worm of great libraries” (53).he took on a young bride, to fulfill what he could not acquire from books, which was a human’s caring warmth of heart to nourish his own soul. After two years of captivity he had found a new purpose for his life, to take out revenge upon the man, who had deluded his only source of human affection in his life.
The author also uses irony to add a bit of humor, and also emphasize judgment on men’s idea of the gender roles. “ I want a wife who will work and send me to school”. Hyperbole: The author creates an unrealistic image of the typical wife and exaggerates to make a point. “I want a wife who will go along when our family takes a vacation …rest and change of scene”. This is an exaggeration because even on her free time, the wife is portrayed as a slave to the husband.
First Impressions of the Loman Family In Arthur Miller’s beloved American play ‘Death of a Salesman’, he presents the Loman family in one way, but uses subtle clues to give us, the audience, Miller’s direct interpretation of the characters. The first characters we are introduced to are the protagonist, Willy and his wife, Linda. From the start Miller portrays Willy as a struggling salesman, his last name being ‘Loman’ which is a homophone for ‘low man’. During Willy and Linda’s first exchange, we are introduced to her as a doting wife who cares deeply for her husband, but treats him in a slightly childish manner. She even goes as far as taking his shoes off for him.
He seems to be lost within the joy of killing when he says “Another baby next. O one-two-three the murderer inside me rose up hard.” Which Hitler himself became enthralled with soon losing sight of his reasons behind the “exterminations.” It is the last sentence in the last stanza that connects all of the dots. “If only they’d all consented to die unseen gassed underground the quiet Nazi way.” This quote is included to help show the much deeper more literal meaning of this poem. It also adds to the view that the farmer has gone from trying to save his farm from pests to trying to almost wipe the entire species of woodchucks from the earth. It also seems to show that he blames the woodchucks for not going down easily adding to the reader’s view of him becoming completely