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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. And all the people in your village. And all the people who bear your name" as Gemma narrates. The curse is a metaphor for being Jewish. Directly linking to the history of the holocaust, the Nazi's came up with a 'final solution' and this was a plan to exterminate the Jewish race. Gemma includes "mother, father, uncles etc." as a way to emphasize on this curse as it applies to every Jewish person, "for all the people who bear your name", metaphorically, it means for this who contained the Jewish blood. LINK Paragraph 2 A technique that yolen has used to convey the horrors of the jewish holocaust was Parallelism. this technique is evident in the novel's structure as it progresses with a few stories developing simultaneously. this would be Gemma's fairytale and Becca's quest for Gemma's identity as an example. Gemma's past life experiences were depicted as an allegory, packed with metaphors and symbolism (as mentioned above) and it is Becca's quest to unravel the truth. For instance, the quote
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