The book is an indication of the end of her old life but a start of her new life in Himmel Street as it symbolises her last connection with her family. Nevertheless the book still has a positive effect on her and her foster father, Hans. After a nightmare that causes Liesel to wet her bed, Hans discovers the book and decides to read it to her. Through Hans’ teaching of reading and writing, a father-daughter relationship soon quickly develops between them. “The Gravedigger’s Handbook” is a book of a list of things to get through to achieve the goal, “A twelve-step guide to grave digging success.” It suggests to the reader that Liesel need to recover from the pain of her brother’s death step by step, which foreshadows the importance of literature had on Liesel.
One technique used by authors is writing type. Books can be proposed in many different ways by using different forms of writing like a narrative or a diary. Rosanne Hawke, author of the book ‘Zenna Dare,’ uses this technique very effectively. Zenna Dare is switches from a narrative written by the main character, Jenefer, to a diary written in past tense by Jenefer’s triple great grandmother, Gweniver. The diary is being read by Jenefer, who is trying to piece together her past, so as the diary progress’s, Jenefer and the reader learn more.
: We are Witnesses: FIve Diaries Of Teenagers Who Died In The Holocaust by Jacob Boas The five teenage diarists in this book did not survive the war. Each diary represents the voices of David, Yitzhak, Moshe, Eva, and Anne and how they cope with the impossible. In their diary entry’s they reveal gripping yet compelling experiences of themselves growing up in different parts of Europe. The diarists come from different parts of Europe, yet they share common themes of hope, ambition, fear, and resilience. Each teenager writes and revel their everyday life before and during the Holocaust, their personal and political opinions and their anti-Semitic views.
Her claim in the novel is that not all obstacles will stop you from achieving the ultimate goal. We read and discover the hard ships Nazer has been through while a slave and the experiences she has picked up along the way all with keeping one goal in mind, to get back to her family. The novel SLAVE is an informative novel based upon what goes on or what went on in other countries with human trafficking upon a first hand experience from beginning to end We first encounter flashback, a writing technique used when the writer wants to indicate something significant in their past, when Nazer describes her home life back in her native
In the novel A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, Susanna is the daughter of a wealthy family in Salem, Massachusetts during the 1692 Witch Trials. Before the trials begin, she desperately wants to fit in and become part of a group of girls in town. However, after those girls begin accusing innocent people of witchcraft, Susannah’s parents included, she divulges the information she held in so long. This is a story of the afflicted girls lying and the words that come straight from Ann Putnam herself, capable of ending the trials once and for all. After reading A Break with Charity by Ann Rinaldi, the reader gains knowledge of the Salem Witch Trials through a young woman who experienced the commotion first hand.
Becca had made a promise to find her true legacy, and to uncover Gemma’s past; a promise that was pieced together from an innocent fairy tale, Briar Rose, that Becca had been told by Gemma endlessly from a young child. The promise was the trigger that had begun the quest. Yolen conveys this quest of personal discovery with the use of repetition, imperative verbs and the sense of urgency within the quotes “I am Briar Rose” and “find the castle and the maker of spells” from Gemma portrays how much this promise and quest meant to her. This begins to make the audience question the purpose and innocence of the fairy tale and what its underlying meaning truly is, and make us feel as if there is something being hidden. Repetition is further explored paired with the use of motifs and symbolism when Becca receives a wooden box with a carved rose and briars on it that belonged to Gemma; inside she found pictures of a younger Gemma, a ring and other belongings from her grandmother.
After is a joke. Only during stays." This orientation to the world is what Persky challenges. Commentary The shawl and its connection to the core event in Rosa's life continues to carry significance in the second story. Throughout the second story Rosa eagerly awaits its arrival from Stella--although Rosa doesn't need such a "talisman," as Stella refers to it, to evoke the images of her deceased daughter and of Rosa's family's contented life in pre-war
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 one in Black with big black boots and silver eagles on her hat'. The box that Gemma had left behind, was a collection of her past act out as a mementos of connection with her family. 'wooden box with a carved rose and briar rose on top' this quotes symbolise an important fact that it immediately engage the reader to think that the 'wooden box' is linked to the story for Gemma's story of 'Briar Rose'. Yolen creates a atmosphere of curiosity through Gemma's fairytale, where the reader and the two character, Shana and Sylvia are in engage to the world 'barbs', however 'better you shouldn't know' reveals the difficulty that Gemma is trying not to reveal her past, while on the other hand, when the reader continues into the book, the reader and Becca had discover the reason to Gemma story about the 'barbs' were it is
In the red tent, Dinah learns of her mothers’ past and present. They tell her secrets, stories and advice that will sustain her throughout her youth and into her calling to midwifery, as well as motherhood. Dinah grows up surrounded by caring mothers, but when she is separated from them and thrust into a foreign land, she indubitably feels lost and alone. Thus her journey truly begins to find the legacy the Bible stole from her. In telling Dinah’s story, Diamant allows the reader to learn so much about the culture of Haran, Canaan, Shechem, and Egypt which, in turn, makes the writing very realistic.
Dondre K 7 May 2012 The Glass Castle In her autobiographical novel, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls explores the themes of hope and imagination by telling her life story. Jeannette Walls’ childhood was filled with poverty, instability in homes, and parents that didn’t always provide a safe environment for her sisters and brother. In The Glass Castle, Jeannette uses the literary device of symbolism to illuminate the meaning behind the glass castle that her father was trying to build for his family. Jeannette Walls mentions the glass castle early in her story. For example, when she starts to describe her dad and all the things he wants to do she says, “when Dad wasn’t telling us about the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he going to do.