Fear In The Boy In The Striped Pajamas And

One can find their place in society by believing that they are influenced by the people surrounding them. On the other hand, they can choose to find their place in society by believing in themselves and what is right for them. An author carefully chooses language to help the reader identify the characters’ place in society. Despite the language of fear in the novels Flowers for Algernon, The cage, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and --by Daniel Keyes, Ruth Minsky Sender, Ruta Sepetys and John Boyne--that conveys a lower place in society, it is the language of hope and love, that inevitably conveys the movement of the characters to a high place in society.

The Holocaust is the setting in the novels Boy in the Striped Pajamas and The Cage by John Boyne and Ruth Minsky Sender, these authors use the language of fear to show the characters’ reaction to the terror inflicted on them by the Nazi’s. In The Cage, Sender uses a strong simile when Riva is in hiding “We curl up in the pitch darkness of the cellar like hunted animals.” (Sender
Riva’s mantra, “As long as there is life, there is hope” (Sender 254) helps her to convince herself that she is in a high place in society. When Riva repeats herself over and over, perhaps she is is trying to connect with their higher self, and raise her self esteem. Interestingly enough, in Flowers For Algernon, the author’s main character, Charlie Gordon, undergoes a variety of scientific tests repeatedly, in which the he uses the language of hope and love: “The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am.”( Keyes 288.) The author's use of the maze both literally and figuratively connotes that Charlie is physically going through the maze and mentally through the maze of