Gerda Weissman Klein All But My Life Analysis
The biography piece is called “All But My Life” and the author is Gerda Weissman Klein. The piece we are given is about a girl and her family when World War 2 started to happen and about how life just suddenly stopped and turned horrid with bombs, gunfire and explosions,and how her father was stricken by an illness, while all this is happening. Her beloved town was once “gay” and “sparkling” ,but it had turned frantic, her entire country was in fear and what was once beautiful was all gone, so quickly. The author, seized the opportunity of showing how much the war changed everything so it could explain more about how the war was like to places. This is seen when she writes,“I had never seen Bielitz, my home town frightened. It had always
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For example, when it states, “ ‘ Poland’s last hour has come… Urge you to come immediately’ ” (5), a letter sent to the family to escape the faith that beholds them, which they couldn’t because of father’s illness. It uses a personification and somewhat effective word choices, like “Urge” and the word “immediately” to show the seriousness of the situation that is coming up with the gossiping of war on Bielitz (and these words are used regularly as negative connotations like in that sentence). Then when it says “ Poland’s last hour has come”, it is not actually Poland’s last hour like in a human’s last hour until death, but it is trying to say that Poland is no longer going to be prosperous ( like when people are alive) and beautiful when the war is going to come( and I never hear “last hour” come as a positive connotation so it is negative). Fully, it is talking about when the war comes to Poland, there will be no beauty , nothing left, as if it was dead(to infer this I used tones and meaning of other sentences, and most had negative connotation such as “horrific” and “defeat” when talking about the war coming and by my past knowledge World War 2 turned everything ugly that once was gorgeous).This sets the tone as horrified, because of the war coming and how it would destroy
For example, when it states, “ ‘ Poland’s last hour has come… Urge you to come immediately’ ” (5), a letter sent to the family to escape the faith that beholds them, which they couldn’t because of father’s illness. It uses a personification and somewhat effective word choices, like “Urge” and the word “immediately” to show the seriousness of the situation that is coming up with the gossiping of war on Bielitz (and these words are used regularly as negative connotations like in that sentence). Then when it says “ Poland’s last hour has come”, it is not actually Poland’s last hour like in a human’s last hour until death, but it is trying to say that Poland is no longer going to be prosperous ( like when people are alive) and beautiful when the war is going to come( and I never hear “last hour” come as a positive connotation so it is negative). Fully, it is talking about when the war comes to Poland, there will be no beauty , nothing left, as if it was dead(to infer this I used tones and meaning of other sentences, and most had negative connotation such as “horrific” and “defeat” when talking about the war coming and by my past knowledge World War 2 turned everything ugly that once was gorgeous).This sets the tone as horrified, because of the war coming and how it would destroy