Jane Yolen presents a great holocaust novel ‘Briar Rose’ concerning about the beauty and the brutality of human and the difference between the fairytale and the ugly reality. Yolen uses variety of techniques to explore her concerns‚ such as story within story‚ allegory‚ symbolism and irony‚ through Gemma’s version of a “Sleeping Beauty” narrative in the novel. Yolen has included all the elements of traditional fairytale in her novel‚ Briar Rose. She used the character‚ Gemma‚ to explore the main
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What would you do if you went back in time to the Holocaust? “The Devil’s Arithmetic” by Jane Yolen is about a jewish girl named Hannah who is tired of remembering about her family’s past. In the book Hannah is transported back in time to the time of the Holocaust. Hannah is taken to a concentration camp where she sees and feels what the Jews had to go through back then. By the end of the story‚ Hannah learns the importance of remembrance and how it impacts your view of things. Remembering is important
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“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen are diary entries between August to October 1944 from Suzy and Leah. The two girls perspective of each other changes as time passes‚ along with their relationship. At the beginning of the story they two girls didn’t exactly get along. Suzy is an American citizen that is helping the refugees. But she gets stuck with this a mean girl named Leah. So Suzy’s writes mean about her things like “she is creepy” or “she’s as prickly as a porcupine. Which shortly after‚ Leah got
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n the article‚ "Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen‚ Suzy Ann McCarthy‚ or the girl with the yellow hair‚ helped Leah Shoshana Hershkowitz‚ the girl with the dark braids. Suzy was helping with Leah English when she came to America as a refugee. This was important and helpful for Suzy to do this for Leah even if she didn’t think it was so important. Leah and Suzy weren’t close in the beginning. They didn’t understand each other so they didn’t really feel like they should be close or even talk unless they
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teachers approach literature with their students‚ they would applaud these instructors’ use of poetry and fiction to guide the learners’ beliefs. For example‚ in selecting poetry to supplement coursework‚ I have recited “Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale” by Jane Yolen to discuss its values‚ the values of American culture related to feminine beauty‚ and the repercussions of valuing a restrictive beauty ideal. It is easy to lead students to an interpretation that fosters tolerance‚ which coincides with the Romantic
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“Suzy and Leah” In "Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen‚ is about two girls who wrote different diaries. Leah is not from the U.S. but Suzy is. And we get to hear their feelings about each other through each diary. The feelings between Suzy and Leah were not so good in the beginning. What happened in the beginning was a girl named Leah and a girl named Suzy were not getting along very well. Suzy thought Leah was kinda creepy the way she was standing with her two dark braids and staring at her. Suzy
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This book report is on the novel Sword of the Rightful King‚ written by Jane Yolen. The book is about the newly crowned King Arthur‚ who rules the kingdom‚ but not the people’s hearts. If he fails to prove his worth. his power will always be in question. Too many want him dead‚ and treachery is everywhere. So the warlock Merlinnus secretley creates a test for Arthur... A sword in a stone is founded-a stone that contains a legend promising that whosoever draws the blade from the stone will rule all
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Do you really know what went on during the holocaust well Jane Yolen wrote a special book about how life was like in the concentration camps which later turned into a movie. There are many different things that go on in between the book and the movie like how there is a major age difference and how Rivka ends up being her cousin. That is some but there’s also many similarities like how Hanna still tells her stories to keep everybody together and how Hanna still sacrifices herself for Rivka. Well
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Briar Rose Basic Summary Plot-The book is divided into two parts‚ the "home"‚ and the "castle". The ending is part of the "home" section‚ returning after the castle. The story is based around the German fairy tale of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) which is told by "Gemma"‚ an elderly woman‚ to her three granddaughters. She tells this to the children almost all the time and it is the only bedtime story she ever tells. The times when "Gemma" tells the story are flashbacks and alternate between the present-day
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altered the fairy tale‚ Briar Rose. The original tale was a straight forward story that can lead the reader to come up with a moral. It was one that also had a happy ending. When Anne Sexton tells us her version of Briar Rose‚ she immediately begins by giving the reader a view of what Briar Rose’s sleep is like. She tells us of how Briar Rose feels‚ and gives the reader some what of an introduction to the ways of Briar Rose. After this psychedelic section of a girl‚ Briar Rose‚ who keeps "slipping
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