A negative relationship can, in fact, be the catalyst for a search for identity to emerge. It is often through these negative relationships that people seek alternate relationships that will help them on their journey of discovery. In Lonesome Howl, Lucy’s detrimental relationship with her family led her to start questioning who she was. Years of constant abuse led her to begin her search for identity. She felt, however, that she could not go on such a journey by herself.
1) “You know, they just want to stop thinking about the past. They want to pretend it all didn’t happen.” How does Funder show that thinking about the past is necessary to move on with the future? The Stasi was a bureaucracy metastasised (excellent word) through East German society that administered the GDR’s communist regime and inflicted nefarious injustices on the citizens. In her narrative non-fiction text titled Stasiland (2002), a piece of literary journalism, Anna Funder exposes the repressed stories and traumatic corollaries of the regime’s victims in an attempt to determine whether its history should be remembered or forgotten. A lack of closure and resolution has meant that there is a lack of scope for victims such as Miriam, Julia and Sigrid Paul to recover from their
Critically, however, it is the difficultly told accounts of the atrocities of Chelmno that shape’s the reader’s emotional responses to, and intellectual understanding of, Briar Rose * Gemma uses the story of Sleeping Beauty to recount her Holocaust experience * Josef’s’s frank narrative recounting of what happened at Chelmno reveals the brutal truths of the Holocaust to Rebecca and the reader. * The purpose of the multiple narratives is to provide the reader with different perspective not only on the horrors of the Holocaust but also its legacy – its impact on the survivors. STYLISTIC DEVICES: * Yolen uses many stylistic devices in this novel. She begins the novel with Gemma telling her three young granddaughters the story of Sleeping Beauty. Each of the odd-chapters in the ‘Home’ section is italicised to alert the readers to the fact that these are flashbacks to the past, that is, Rebecca’s childhood.
We see this with the close relationship with Miriam, who was a former East German who experienced life behind the berlin wall that brought great sorrow upon herself, which she has not quite escaped. At 16, being an enemy of the state was not a good start towards life with the stasi, being interrogated, and sleep deprivation was some punishment she had faced, until later on her husband Charlie had died mysteriously while in Stasi custody, leaving funder quite physically and emotionally affected which reflects back onto the reader, feeling sympathy for her tragic past. As we see through Funders narrative, this had agitated and brought suffering to Miriam for years after the berlin wall had been down, yet she still was stuck in her miserable past she once lived in. Another person who was unable to move on from their drastic past, convinced by the stasi Fran Paul was labelled to be a criminal, the price she had paid, missing her sons childhood, with him being on the west side of the wall and also worrying bout her respectability after a ‘criminal past’ the stasi had scarred her mentally unable to forget the suffering she had gone
Samira Oral History The interview I read about was a female named Lois Ahrens who lived in Northampton with her partner and whose interest is politics. Moreover, she was born in 1947 right after the world war two and grew up in a working class family in Brooklyn New York. Especially, her uncle and aunt were politically active people in the 30s which inspired her more towards it. Moreover, in her interview she talks how most of his relatives died in the war, in addition it wasn’t surprising/shocking for her because most of the people surrounding her also lost relatives in the war. Since she was Jewish his family went through bad phase in their lives just like any other Jewish did during those years.
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.
Brutality is the actions of people who have the power of being cruel to others. This is thoroughly expressed in depth across the novel of ‘Briar Rose’ however; hope is also showed in the novel where people find hope either in themselves or through power of human spirit. The second dual chapter of the novel called ‘castle’ was told by Josef. The holocaust is an example of brutality as Josef re-tells his experiences in the holocaust. Yolen helps the reader understand that ‘Briar Rose’ is both about brutality and hope through the use of her distinctive prose fiction techniques and a variety of themes and techniques.
She has been diagnosed as having Schizophrenia, which she feels has stigmatised her making it more difficult for her to see an optimistic future for herself. She suffers with the positive symptoms; of her illness this means that something is added to the person’s usual behaviour, such as hearing voices or delusional ideation (Powell 2000). Emma is due to move into a forensic hostel. I am interested to see how staff can assess what interventions are needed to be put in place to help with the process. These assessments can create a dilemma for
58. This quote reveals information about Nelly. This in turn gives the reader a view on who she is and what she feels. Lockwood's nightmare about Cathy Linton trying to get into Wuthering Heights foreshadows the young girl's eventual understanding with the place, through her relationship with Hareton (although this understanding comes only after many months of misery, which may be represented by the wounds she gets from the broken glass). A quote that supports this is “I began to dream, almost before I ceased to be sensible of my locality.
This is the theme that humans are capable of creating great beauty and destruction. During the second world war cruelty and discrimination was widespread. This resulted in some of the most inhumane destruction known to man. During this time there were a minority of people that held on too hope and have stories of survival that are awe inspiring. The Pianist is one of those stories that focus on one mans journey for survival despite all odds.