Graffiti Knight By Karen Bass Sparknotes
The award-winning novel, Graffiti Knight by Karen Bass, has brought up unique characteristics that have been explicitly demonstrated in the IB program. This book teaches IB students new morals of life and encourages them to develop new learning styles in their upcoming years in IB. The first characteristic involved in this book is Fairness and Development, Karen Bass’s detailed description of Leipzig’s lifestyle exposes a dictatorship government controlled by the Soviet Union and certain rights for citizens that faced differences in status or gender. By helping others in need for the justice of himself and his community, Wilm character in the novel demonstrated a new dimension of caring for many readers. The contrast of life before and after
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While the Soviet Union controlled Germany, all women were treated as if they lacked abilities. When Wilm questioned his sister’s attack by members of the Soviet Union, his mother simply replied “Do you think Annelise is the only woman that is been attacked.” . His mother word illustrate Soviets treated women as “things” mere objects, that they could harass and insult anywhere. Women were expected to do as they were told and had no voice of their own. Many attacked women had the constant of being raped once again, and to escape from this risk, these women dressed as men, while exiting their houses.“Try to walk like a boy Liese”. Their society had set up an image where men had more honour then women and were continuously right. The constant attacks from the Soviets wasn’t the only thing that illustrated showed gender inequality, women education had a huge contribution as well. When Wilm has asked Johanna why she wasn't going to university, she had replied “ I finished grade eight. I am not going to university so had no need of gymnasium…Things are hard for women in this city” . Despite being an bright student, Johanna chose not to further execute her studies, as she was aware of the minimum chances of her getting an ethical job, and due to the lack of encouragement, many abled women, put aside their
While the Soviet Union controlled Germany, all women were treated as if they lacked abilities. When Wilm questioned his sister’s attack by members of the Soviet Union, his mother simply replied “Do you think Annelise is the only woman that is been attacked.” . His mother word illustrate Soviets treated women as “things” mere objects, that they could harass and insult anywhere. Women were expected to do as they were told and had no voice of their own. Many attacked women had the constant of being raped once again, and to escape from this risk, these women dressed as men, while exiting their houses.“Try to walk like a boy Liese”. Their society had set up an image where men had more honour then women and were continuously right. The constant attacks from the Soviets wasn’t the only thing that illustrated showed gender inequality, women education had a huge contribution as well. When Wilm has asked Johanna why she wasn't going to university, she had replied “ I finished grade eight. I am not going to university so had no need of gymnasium…Things are hard for women in this city” . Despite being an bright student, Johanna chose not to further execute her studies, as she was aware of the minimum chances of her getting an ethical job, and due to the lack of encouragement, many abled women, put aside their