Included in the book are a series of illustrations likening the Jews to the devil. The author highlights the myths the Christians believed pertaining to the Jews’ dealings with the devil, Jewish sorcery and Jewish heretics. During the Holocaust, a time of renewed hatred for the Jews, Trachtenberg writes about a topic that is extremely important in showing the way
Hawthorne uses Prynne's scarlet letter as a huge piece of symbolism. It symbolizes the sin Prynne committed, and the way it contrasts against her plain clothes is in turn the same way her sin contrasts so blazenly against the conformity of a Puritan society. Hawthorne's use of symbolism and protagonists that embody sinful human nature is how Hawthorne created an excellent piece of
The novel explores the impact of the Holocaust. Keller's forthright comment to Mrs Crabbe, 'One presumes they were not gassed... and then burned after the removal of gold amalgam', highlights the evil of the Nazis, and an issue that was reality to Keller. Goldsworthy gives the readers a series of snapshots to evoke images of Jewish annihilation. These images include: Keller's tattoo; Henisch's description of Keller sewing on his yellow star after the murder of his family; and the weakened Keller falling and 'dying' during a concentration camp march. Such tragic images enable readers, along with Paul, to piece together Keller’s tragic past.
A metaphor connects one subject with another that may not be obviously related. When used correctly, it allows the writer to do this in a way that is both stylistically pleasing and concise. The following quotation has been edited and altered so that it includes a misused metaphor. It is from Pope John Paul II, discussing the Nazi Holocaust and the long-lasting impact it has had on Europe: Here, as at Auschwitz and many other places in Europe, we are overcome by the echo of the tears of so many. Men, women, and children cry out to us from the depths of the horror that they knew.
Be able to interpret the key themes in the assigned poems by Frost. 7. Be able to identify the speakers and the significance of their lines in Hemingway’s short story, “A Clean Well-Lighted Place.” 8. Be able to discuss the interrelationships, social dynamics, and interpersonal conflicts depicted in Joyce’s “The Dead.” (Be aware of the characters whom Gabriel encounters.) 9.
In the “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson and “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell we find a study of violence and death; caused by the savagery of humanity when reason and compassion give way to selfishness and unquestionable feudalism. Both authors use prose, tone and setting to articulate the darkest regions of humanity. Even though the settings differ greatly; one is post war era rural America and the other a deserted island. Both authors use setting and tone to effectively mislead the reader from a sense of safety to the surprise conclusion of each story. What could be more familiar than the beauty of a summer afternoon?
This is highlighted with "shut", "bleached" and "dark-clothed". The cleaver use of "shut shops", "sun blinds", "sovereigns", "kings and queens" compounds a critisasation of authority, Larkin does this through sibilance. Larkin then presents the loss in the next stanza with the repetition of the theme of innocence this is highlighted with the quotation "dresses", "never such innocence", "little" and "never such innocence again". This created a sense of destruction and how the war has taken the innocence of so many young people. Also the use off an oxymoron "restless silence" foreshadows the tragedy that is to come.
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
Compare and contrast the presentation of suffering in “Out, Out-” and “Refugee Blues”. The poems “Out, Out-” and “Refugee Blues” have a theme of suffering in common, although they are set on very different scales; “Out, Out-” is based around a single incident, whereas “Refugee Blues”, although telling the story of one specific couple, represents the huge scale of the suppression of Jews throughout Europe. Isolation is a key feature of suffering in both poems. The titles of both poems imply themes of suffering and isolation. “Out, Out-” is the beginning of a quotation from Macbeth: “Out, out, brief candle!
The poem "On the Subway" by Sharon Olds, describes the intesity of racial confrontation, gender contrasts, and financial differences by the use of poetic devicies, imagery, juxtaposition, and tone. Olds uses imagery in her poem to decribe the racial confrontation. An example of this devicie is in line 3-5 of the poem, "his feet are huge, in black sneakers laced with white in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars." The scars portray to the discrimination against the black man by white society. Olds imagery denotes that whites purposely harm blacks, such as whites are powerful; blacks are subservient.