Yolen has enabled her readers to understand the value of the past for the present and to witness both the true horrors as well as the acts of courage in her novel Briar Rose. A fairy tale may seem a work of fiction, but it can contain truths of horrific events. This can be seen in the way that Yolen uses the character
Banner's book provided large amounts of information pertaining directly to women in America. Her book was helpful, informative, and the main resource for my portion of the report. Meredith Goldstein-LeVande. Women's Suffrage. http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sufferage/home.htm Meredith Goldstein-LeVande provided useful information on the anti-sufferage movement.
In In Cold Blood, the book described the characters so well that it was no secret that Capote comprehended the people. Also, both Capotes were similar because of their relationship with Perry Smith, one of the two murderers. In Capote in Kansas, it clearly showed that Capote had strong, passionate feelings for Perry. “I just wanted to cheer you up.” This was shown as Capote tried to cheer up Perry by attempting to kiss him. They eventually became friends.
These topical matters which Yolen has used are the holocaust, and the fairy-tale sleeping beauty or less commonly known as briar rose. Both these subject matters are well known in society and have had huge impacts on history. Being such well known subject matters instantly engages the audience as they are able to apply their knowledge and to make cross-links between the two subject matters. Intertextuality of any text will be intriguing and engaging as the audience is able to compare and to know the basic outline of what is to come, this could be considered dramatic irony. The symbolism of the holocaust is engaging as fairy-tales are always considered to have a happy ending but using such a dark topical matter which seems to have no happy outcomes is able to surprise the audience and to keep them reading as the audience is waiting to see the “Happily ever after” (pg.
Letting you know, re-ensuring you through the storms of striking conflicts and rest you on the outcome of the storyline. The sensory language that Steinbeck brought into existence had succeeded when it grew into a visualization as if the reader also rides the journey with Lennie and George and the emotional connections are established. Talking more about the strategy and the technique angles of such gifted writer, in the novel of Of Mice and Men, Lennie was created to manipulate the excitement of fear into the book and further more to the readers. Bouncing to another angle, the repetition method was applied where George always gets angry and had enough with Lennie's troubles but the circle went on when George again feels sorry for Lennie, who doesn't understand the complicated life that he has. Foreshadowing was another ingredient added in the story to introduce the readers to ideas of incidents that become main parts of the story as it proceeded.
This statement made by Daley encouraging the importance of looking at situations from a “different point of you” really justifies some key concepts discussed in War Dances by Sherman Alexie such as those characters that take into account the other side of the story. She also goes on to mention, “The ability to see things from a different perspective is a gift in relationships, in all areas of your life because it requires a certain amount of humility and a willingness to surrender” (Daley). The main concept the author of this article is trying to address in this quote is that with every situation at hand, there is two ways of looking at it and by doing that it can tremendously help some of the key relationships in one’s life. Just by admitting that there is a different way of seeing things for that situation, is a step forward in ultimately experiencing better outcomes in areas such as father son relationships, marriages, and in all other areas of an individual’s life. This can be related to the stories written in War Dances with the outcome of the narrator’s relationship with his father in, “War Dances,” or the marriage between husband and wife in, “The Ballad of Paul Nonetheless,” or even the relationship between two lifetime friends in, “The Senator’s Son.” Many of the outcomes in these stories might have been totally different if they lacked this theme of coming to terms with oppositions and looking at their situations in multiple angles.
I chose to write Snow Falling on Cedars from a historical perspective to shape the emotional, psychological and philosophical aspects of the plot. The setting in which a story takes place is significant as it allows the reader to better understand the context of the events and themes. This book integrates memories of WWII through flashbacks from the view of different characters. To further the theme of the theme ‘truth and justice’, I created the setting of Manzanar Internment Camp, where innocent Japanese-Americans are sent during the war. When placed in difficult situations, the attitudes of the characters evolve to overcome these certain obstacles.
The characters that emerge in the story to be mentioned constantly such as the Clutter’s and other local town members are easily pictured in image and emotion throughout the story. The author, Truman Capote, uses imagery to try to help the reader’s picture specifically what the town looks like, the energy of the town, what certain people look like, and other detailed features. This imagery and descriptive writing used by the author helps to describe and easily picture the characters in the book. In the setting, the author also uses conflict to enhance the story by foreshadowing a problem that might have occurred or to occur in the story that ended six human lives of the town. The author doesn’t mention exact names or reasons, but leaves off on foreshadowing a problem with the town.
he also likens her to intangible qualities such as her purity. This is powerful because it points out an ideal quality in women of the time and shows her as a perfect woman. He compares her to tragedy in line 30 “You melted to him as snow to a fire”. He is comparing her love of hamlet to the melting of snow. In this case the melting is tragic.
Chapter 21 discussed how abnormalities of characters are a big sign to show how important they are. While reading this chapter, so many characters came up in my head, whether they were in books, tv shows/ movies, or games. These characters did have abnormalities that set them apart from the rest of society, however, made them obvious as the main character and hero/heroine of the story. So, when I read this chapter, I actually had an "aha!" moment.