In Briar Rose‚ the author Jane Yolen‚ introduces the audience to a variety of significant ideas that she portrays throughout the text and uses interesting techniques to convey these ideas. She reveals the concept of parallelism by intertwining the stories: Sleeping Beauty and the Holocaust. She uses symbolism to highlight the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust. Yolen uses postmodern ideas with the use of flashback of the past to retell a fairytale version that Becca’s grandmother Gemma
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Briar Rose is centered around one woman’s Holocaust experience and intermixed with the classic fairy-tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. Yolen’s uses of classic fairy-tale elements such as a prince and the curse of a long sleep are used to connect us to the horrors of the death camp Chelmno. The result is a story that is fresh and shocking as it tears away any of the numbness one may feel for another account of a Holocaust survivor. Suddenly the fairy-tale ideas of rescue and evil are invested with modern connotations
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response‚ refer to at least 3 of the following: ideas and themes‚ characters‚ language‚ structure and context. Value today: * Know the past so we don’t repeat the horror. * The importance of storytelling is to record the history. Gemma and briar is in the story for the future. Linking the past for the present and future. * Value of families/ family histories * * The books is divided into 3 sections home castle and home again. The first and last section include fairy tale. But
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In what ways does the author draw you into the world of the novel? The author of Briar Rose‚ Jane Yolen draws her audience into the world of the novel through the use of the main distinctive features of parallelism‚ allegory‚ themes and the use of the authors note. Firstly parallelism is used in the texts to investigate the similarities between the traditional fairy tale ’Sleeping Beauty’ and historical concepts of the Holocaust by alternating chapters. Another notable distinctive feature is the
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Briar Rose ’’ War and Persecution Theme and definition. The theme war and persecution is based on the constant hostility‚ ill treatment and harsh condition endured by the residence of Chelmno. WWII Poland was a war between many nations causing outright conflict and mass murder of many innocent souls. *Explanation of the theme and its *significance. The tales of the past was told by Josef by allowed Becca and the responder to experience the Poland of the past and what it was once like. There
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Jewish Holocaust The word holocaust originally meant a sacrifice wholly consumed by fire; now it is most commonly used to mean: The (period of the) mass murder of the Jews (or of other groups) by the Nazis in the war of l939-45 (The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary). During World War II the anti-semitic German government under Chancellor Adolf Hitler decided on a "final solution" to what it saw as "the Jewish problem". This was to set up death and work camps so that this group - which the government
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Point Elaborate Evidence Link back to question what does poet say about belonging? 1 poem 3 x peel parts The father is a hard worker man and he is also shows the son’s admiration. Skyzynecki here illustrates vividly aspects of the migrant experience within Australia and the differentiates of assimilation for the older generation. His father has made a good life here in Australia‚ but he can never be Australian because his identity has been forged in the Polish culture. This poem
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English Area of Study:- BELONGING What ideas about belonging are explored in the texts you have studied in your AOS? Belonging to a community or group has a significant impact on an individual‟s sense of self. Belonging is a basic human desire. It can be formed via family ‚ culture and also self – discovery. Texts can show the importance for one to belong to a purpose as an outrageous world of dancing in Baz Luhrmann‟s “Strictly Ballroom” demonstrates how the use of filmic techniques can
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Yolen enlightens and inspires responders through the use of structure‚ language and other techniques. The novel Briar Rose by Jane Yolen is a heart wrenching story of sleeping beauty intertwined with the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust. The structure of the novel is altered in a way to interweave three stories including Gemma’s Briar Rose fairy tale‚ Becca’s quest and Josef’s story. The use of language techniques explores the idea of the characters as it gives an understanding of their circumstances
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Jane Yolen‚ in her novel Briar Rose‚ has used an allegory of Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty as a metaphor to hide the real experiences and emotions suffered from the Holocaust during World War Two. The development and techniques employed within the story are extremely effective for the use of the allegory. Yolen has used a number of techniques to assist in the use of the allegory. She has used the title Briar Rose‚ Yolen has selected this specific title as it is another name for Sleeping Beauty‚
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