Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Wizard of Oz are great works of fantasy. Each novel incorporates aspects that can help the reader understand more about a child’s way of thinking and his/her journey to adulthood. Also elements from Bettelheim‚ Freud and Jung can be applied in analyzing each work. In both Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass and Wizard of Oz ‚ the authors delineate essential components to show how the main characters‚ Alice and Dorothy‚ mature from childhood
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became friends. Throughout the book‚ I describe Bruno as playful ‚and smart. I described Bruno as playful‚ because he loved to play with his old friends before he moved to his new house in Berlin. Once he got to his new house in Berlin‚ he didn’t have no one to play with‚ than he asked Pavel to create a swing with an old tire. Once Pavel was done with the swing‚ he started swinging by himself since his sister Gretel didn’t want to play with him. Once Bruno met Shmuel for the first time‚ he didn’t know
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children. Research shows that children in traditional classes are much quieter and they may just listen to the teacher passively and are scared to make mistakes (Bettelheim‚ 2010). Also‚ the Eastern teacher ignores elements such as inherent interest‚ emotional engagement‚ social interaction‚ physical activity and the pleasure of mastery (Bettelheim‚ 2010). This causes children to not want to study and they are not interested to think of everything around them. Primary schools should actively teach
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• Chapters Eleven to Fifteen • According to Bruno‚ why was the Fury rude? (page 122) • Why did Bruno’s parents argue after their dinner guests left? (page 124) • How does Bruno’s arrival at Out-With differ from Shmuel’s arrival? (page 130) • Why does Bruno decide not to share the news about his new friend with his family? (page 133) • What is Maria’s religion? How do you know? (page 137) • Describe Bruno’s personality? How does he change from the beginning of the story to this point? • What
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eyes of an obnoxious German boy‚ Bruno‚ who really does not understand what is going on. An odd friendship is formed between the son of a Nazi death camp commandant‚ and Shmuel‚ a young Jewish prisoner who lives in a concentration camp‚ close by to where Bruno lives. The Boy in the striped pyjamas is a story about a boy’s friendship between Bruno and Shmuel that tells the world of the horrors of the Holocaust‚ 1939‚ through the eyes of two nine year old boys. Bruno is the main character who is used
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bad‚ Was it is good or bad that Bruno was naive of the Holocaust?. Bruno‚ a 9 year old German boy was naive about the Holocaust because Father didn’t want Bruno to know about what happens on the other side of the fence because he wanted Bruno to feel comfortable at out-with and not want to move back to Berlin because of the Holocaust which is “a Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar”. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas‚ it was good that Bruno was naive about the Holocaust
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Bruno a nine year old boy at the time of the war‚ stands completely oblivious to the horrific goings-on of the war that continue to take place around him‚ even with his father being a Nazi commandant. The title of the book is evidence to this as Bruno perceives their concentration camp uniforms as "striped pyjamas". Deeper into the book we discover Bruno’s interpretation of many Nazi words which gives us further evidence as he is unable to pronounce these important names "the Fury‚" (the Furher)
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fences existed between Bruno and his parents‚ Bruno’s father and Grandmother‚ Bruno and the servants (Pavel and Maria)‚ and between Bruno and Shmuel. These fences strained many relationships and affected how they treated one another and what they told each other. To begin with‚ Bruno and his parents had a fence built between them after they moved from their home in Berlin to a house next to a concentration camp named‚ “Out-With” (Auschwitz- Bruno was too young to understand). Bruno and his parents once
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told from the viewpoint of a child‚ eight year old Bruno. His father is an SS Officer and the family move from Berlin into a house near the grounds of a concentration camp. Bruno thinks that the fence exists so that animals cannot escape. Schmuel laughs‚ but not unkindly and he informs Bruno that the purpose of the fence is to restrain the Jewish prisoners. The sadistic SS lieutenant beats to death the Jewish house servant‚ and following this Bruno discovers Schmuel working in his home. He gives
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Fairy tales picture a world filled with magic‚ love and the triumph of the good over the evil. Fairy tales are a window to other worlds where the wildest dreams can come true and the hero always lives happily ever after preferably paired with his loved one. Although some people argue that fairy tales are full of stereotypes‚ filled with frightening monsters and promote racism and sexism I believe that they are wrong because fairy tales provide valuable moral lessons to children‚ teach them other
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