Briar Rose Book Report

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INTRODUCTION: Briar Rose is is a young adult novel written by American author Jane Yolen. The story is based on the German fairy tale Sleeping Beauty and explores similar issues and themes. Briar Rose is the story of a young girl, Becca, in search for her grandmothers mysterious past. Throughout her life, Becca and her sisters, Sylvia and Shanna have heard one haunting story from their grandmothers past. Before Gemma died, Becca promised her that she will find out the truth about her past, as she claims she is “Briar Rose”. The fairytale explores themes of; brutality, horror, redemption and hope. It is both heartbreaking and heart warming. Readers will be excited to turn each page and be reminded of the holocaust as well as a contemporary…show more content…
Becca was left with a wooden box which had mysterious and puzzling documents, yellowed photographs of a women in poor clothing, a handsome mans passport, also a ring with a large stone on it. inside this ring, was a date and three letters- JMP 1928. Becca was confused as who that ring belonged to and was determined to find out. Becca desires to seek answers as soon as possible. She heads to her office where she works and tries to put the items from the box together, but nothing made sense “why had Gemma kept them secret? And what had any of them to do with the story of Briar Rose? ” this mystery device adds tension and suspense to the story. Becca had no information about her grandmother “Gemma had no one else to bore her name. No mother, no father, no husband” Becca’s editor Stan encourages her to seek out the truth about Gemma. He’s support is important because her family are not optimistic that she will uncover anything. There is a hint of romantic attachment between them but for now, Becca just needs to know Gemma’s history and nothing else. Stan helps Becca to find out her Grandmothers past. He suggested that they both go to Oswego which was five to six hours away, but he had a friend there called Samantha who they could stay with and she might be able to make connections that could help

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