This is shown through the use when Yolen symbolism throughout the novel. When yolen uses symbolism is because she wants to engage the reader to enhance the meaning of the narrative beyond what is described. 'The Bad Fairy' this quote engage with the reader that it is a metaphor about Gemma's past experience in Chelmon. Furthermore into this, Yolen also describe the nazi soldiers that cause the death toward the vitmin of the holocaust. Similarity to this, yolen uses visual imagery, to describe further into what the image of a nazi dressed as a woman, who desire to hurt children.
The curse stated that when the princess is 15 years old, she will prick her finger with a splinter and fall into a sleep that will last for 100 years. After the 100 years pass, the kiss of a young prince releases briar rose from her sleep, and they live happily ever after. In Grimm’s version, there’s little background or explanation on why the spell was casted on little Briar Rose. In Disney’s Maleficent, the story evolves around the ‘wise woman’ who casted the spell, which in this case is portrayed as a fairy. Disney’s version offers an in-depth background on why Maleficent, after being betrayed by King Stephan, takes revenge by casting the spell on the little princess, named Aurora.
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.
Ashley Hash Molly Luby ENG 113 12 July 2009 Not Your Typical Fairytale Why then did Jane Yolen yet again write another novel covering topics that dwelt with these horrible events? Yolen stated in an interview that the idea of writing _Briar Rose came to her while watching the documentary “Shoah”. The documentary described a concentration camp inside a castle called Chelmno. There was the castle, barbed wire fence, and the gassing of innocent people. To Yolen this portrayed the fairytale Sleeping _Beauty in a horrible but fascinating way.
We all go through all kinds of transitions in our life time, most happen when we are young. Different types of transitions: Emotional Affected by experiences such as changes to the family structure. * New baby * parents separating * new step parents/siblings * grandparents/other family members moving in Another transition could be a bereavement or an illness * illness or death of family member/friend Being with a new/additional primary carer * starting with a child minder * moving into foster care * moving into adoptive care A child can be affected by leaving care. Physical A child can be affected by moving home or the change of location. Intellectual Changes such as moving setting * changing
Paragraph 1 allegory is a technique that yolen uses to convey the horrors of war. this technique is used in the alternate chapters where a flashback occurs and Gemma tells her 'fairytale' to her grandchildren. the fairytale is a recount of her past experiences of the Holocaust and contains hidden meanings packed in metaphors and symbolism. for example, as quoted from the bad fairy, "I curse you, Briar Rose. I curse you and your father the king, and your mother the queen and all your uncles and cousins and aunts.
In Sleeping Beauty, Aurora’s mother and father give her up to the 3 fairies in order to protect her from Maleficents’ curse. For 16 years the fairies gave up magic so that they would be able to raise her in secret. In The Little Mermaid King Triton gives up his freedom for Ariel so that she wouldn’t become one of Ursula’s slaves. Also at the end of the
'Briar Rose' by Jane Yolen explores war and persecution, story telling and memories and the past as the main concern of the text. Yolen seeks to educate readers about War and persecution in the novel 'Briar Rose' and the terrible events that occurred in Europe during the war and about the persecution and mass murder that was instigated by the Nazi rule that came with it. Storytelling is explored through the several genres of stories and forces the reader to examine the line between real and fictional stories as Briar Rose is based on the power of stories. Yolen stressed the importance of memories and the past as Yolen indicates the importance of memories. Jane Yolen's novel, 'Briar Rose' explores war and persecution as one of the main ideas of the text.
The main characters from these two novels are two very different people in many ways, but have one thing they have in common which is the idea that they are both trapped by their own society, but somewhat not trapped when in a certain place or moment. Throughout this investigation these two novels will be closely examined and also compared and contrasted. On the very first page of ‘Like Water for Chocolate’, the narrator talks about being sensitive to the onion. By doing this the narrator introduces the main character, Tita as she would cry a lot even when she was in her mother’s womb. As it says in the first chapter, when Tita was born on the kitchen floor and when the water had dried up, the kitchen floor was filled with salt, which is impossible because the water from the womb is not salt water.
Regardless of its context every text is reflective of the ways of thinking that shape an understanding of the values of the times. Jane Yolen’s novel, Briar Rose (1992) is an extended metaphorical representation of the horror of the holocaust through the allegory of the fairy-tale, Sleeping Beauty. Written in the 1990’s when the historical and cultural understanding of the holocaust was finally achieved, Briar Rose uses the allegory of the fairy-tale not only to blur the line between reality and the illusion, but as a portrayal of humanity’s resilience through didacticism. The horror of the Nazi genocide of World War 2 was only realised and brought to the world through the moral teachings expounded in a variety of texts. Similarly Terry George’s, Hotel Rwanda, (2004) re-enacts the events of the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that tore through the nation and shocked the world.