The first major plot of the book, Hana’s Suitcase, is of Hana’s childhood, as she grows up in Czechoslovakia. The conflict of this plot is that Hana and her Jewish family must try to survive the holocaust. The second major plot of Hana’s suitcase is Fumiko Ishioka’s mission to learn Hana’s story so that she can teach the Japanese children in the Small Wings club about the holocaust almost fifty years later. The conflict of this plot is that Fumiko cannot find any information about Hana, despite how many museums she contacts. Hana Brady is first described as a normal child growing up in Czechoslovakia. “Hana and George went to the public school. They were average kids, who got into regular mischief and had the usual problems and triumphs” …show more content…
By putting a story behind the name written on a suitcase she received, Fumiko believed she could make the holocaust more relatable to the children. The conflict develops when Fumiko is unable to learn any details about Hana despite her working tirelessly and contacting as many museums as possible. The conflict comes to a climax when the opportunity presents itself for Fumiko to visit Czechoslovakia where she finally learns the story of Hana Brady. She learns that Hana was murdered at Auschwitz, and that her brother, George, was still alive. This plot and conflict were important to the story because it allows us to learn Hana’s story, give her brother some closure, all while teaching the children of the Small Wing about the holocaust. Fumiko’s story contributed to several of the story’s main themes. Like Hana and George, Fumiko demonstrates great persistence. Despite being constantly disappointed by the museums’ lack of information about Hana, Fumiko never gave up searching. Fumiko made it her mission to ensure the children of japan learnt about the holocaust. She refused to let the future generations forget history. Lastly, Fumiko‘s story contributes to the story’s theme of closure. In the end, Fumiko learned the story of Hana and has closure by meeting George Brady and sharing
Mark Baker’s ‘The Fiftieth Gate’ creates a struggle between memory and history as each represents the Holocaust but through different means of representation. The language of memory is partial, subjective, and emotional and experiences confusion and doubts. Baker provides the historical facts of the Aktions and slave-labour camps in historian terms, that of numbers of deaths, survivors and prisoners, and is criticised by his parents. “Fecks, fecks” Joe says dismissively and Genia describes his work as “shopping lists”. This demonstrates how Baker believed his parents’ pasts were represented through history, and Joe and Genia felt their experiences were represen...
This story goes on talking about the past in the concentration camp all of a sudden. Hannah is back at the dining room table and notices the tattoo on Aunt Eva's arm and recognizes it. She says the numerical significance of the number to Aunt Eva, who says that when she was young she was known by another name, Rivka. After coming to America, many of the survivors changed their names. Grandpa Will, Eva's brother, was known as Wolfe before.
Throughout the book, apart from describing her experiences of living in Auschwitz, Livia Bitton-Jackson focuses on presenting certain ideas to the reader. The three main themes are: hope; taking risks; and growing up.
In the novel “The Diary of Laura’s Twin by Kathy Kacer is about a girl named Laura who is having her bat mitzvah and gets assigned to do a project about a kid from the holocaust who never had got the chance to have a bat mitzvah. Laura gets a diary from an old woman but does not know it’s her diary from when she was a little girl. As she reads it learns that the girl Sara is around her age and is living in the Warsaw ghetto during the holocaust with her bother, sister, mom, dad, grandpa, grandma and her best friend Deena. As Laura is reading the book in her life she goes throw problems with her friends and other kids from her school destroying gravestones.
Hannah the main character, Hannah starts off at a dinner with her family which she thinks is very boring where Hannah who thinks she drank too much wine believing that she is daydreaming. Whilst in her mind as she was "daydreaming" Hannah had came into the kitchen to new surroundings very confused she was greeted by a girl named Eva who had greeted her by the name of Chaya. (Chaya meaning life). Hannah soon hears from Eva that it is the year 1942 and that both her parents were very ill and passed away being left for her Aunt Gitl and Uncle Shmuel to take care of her. Hannah learns that she is no longer in her home town. Hannah with Eva go to a wedding with all the family where half way through the wedding nazis come. It all makes sense to Hannah now because the nazis come and take them to a concentration camp which for some reason Hannah knew what was about to happen once the nazis got closer. The nazis came closer soon stopping right in front of them they get out of their trucks as they start pushing them all into the back of the trucks separating them. As Hannah drives off with Eva and everyone else in the trucks with bars for windows and the rest closed in left while watching helplessly as their houses and belongings burn to the ground never to be seen again.
Though Holden’s interactions with Dick Slagle is for a short amount of time, Salinger shows how class differences can lead to conflicts over small things such as suitcases. When Holden observes that Slagle does not take his suitcases out from under his bed because they are cheap, he recognizes that Slagle is ashamed of his suitcases, which is why he responds by putting his suitcases under his bed just like Slagle. After Holden puts his suitcases under his bed to make Slagle more comfortable, Slagle takes Holden’s suitcases out and puts them back up on the rack, to show the rest of the school that he owns “bourgeois”suitcases (121). Holden’s attempt to conceal the class difference between Slagle and himself proves ineffective. This attempt
“Hana’s Suitcase” is a true story about a thirteen year old girl named Hana. This CBC broadcast talks about Hana and her family’s struggles throughout the Holocaust. The speakers of this show are a young woman named Fumiko and Hana’s older brother and Holocaust survivor George Brady. Fumiko is known as a museum curator for a Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. She wanted to have different items from the Holocaust displayed in her museum; but she specifically wanted a suitcase. Fumiko wanted to see what children had left behind in their suitcases because she thought it would be an important item for children in Japan to see. When she was given a suitcase she wanted to learn more about that specific child, Hana Brady. Frumiko decided
With the amount of anti-Semitic activity in Germany, no Jew was safe and Helen realized this quickly. In order to protect her child he had to give her to family to keep her safe. “There we said goodbye as casually as possible and gave these strangers our child.” After this moment, Helen’s fight for survival to see her child once again. Finding a place to hide became very difficult as no one wanted to host a Jewish family due to the fear of the Nazis finding out. “People were understandably nervous and frightened, so the only solution was to find another hiding place.”
Mrs. Sputz, the cleaning lady, says that everybody is different and we should be happy in it. Furthermore, being different is who we are. One more important event was when Spoonface’s doctor tells her the story of his mother who was in the concentration camp and she was very brave. Moreover, the poor people there never gave up hope and some of the little children were skinner than her because they didn’t eat enough. He said all this to help Spoonface, little children were braver than anyone else. The human spirit was in the middle. No matter how bad it is that we’re dying, it matters more that we are still alive. Things were drawn in the concentration camps like the butterflies flying to heaven. Another important event was when there was a reference made to a Bible character Job who suffered many difficulties in life similar to Spoonface.
The holocaust is known for the great number of deaths; including the six million Jews. Ida fink is a writer that captures this time period in her works. In “The Key Game” she appeals to pathos because of imagery used, connections to your own family, and dialog used by both the father and mother. Through her fiction stories, she tells tales that relate to what could have been and probably what was. Ida Fink is known for telling her stories in a journalist like tone with very little color. In her stories, she does not like to tell you how to feel she instead leaves that up to the reader. Fink does place some hints of emotion just by writing the story alone. The interpretation of her works is left up to the reader. As you read through her stories some will find more emotion, some will find more logic, and some may see more ethics. At the moment, we will be looking more on the side of emotions within this story.
In Art Spiegelman’s Maus, the audience is led through a very emotional story of a Holocaust survivor’s life and the present day consequences that the event has placed on his relationship with the author, who is his son, and his wife. Throughout this novel, the audience constantly is reminded of how horrific the Holocaust was to the Jewish people. Nevertheless, the novel finds very effective ways to insert forms of humor in the inner story and outer story of Maus. Although the Holocaust has a heart wrenching effect on the novel as a whole, the effective use of humor allows for the story to become slightly less severe and a more tolerable read.
The story symbolizes character’s in different way that can be interpreted to analyze. Harry Ashfield, a 5 year old kid, dies in a tragic way where his belief and faith lead him to what seemed a pointless death. His literally taking of Bevel Summers words lead him to God, where he wanted to be after living a life so empty and concerning The story represents actions and events that help us visualize what each character symbolizes, to conclude to a characters faith, belief, and weakness/strengths. Flannery O Connor helps us to connect with the story and possibly think about how are religion or beliefs affected us towards conflicts. Having personal connection is our main focus and the characters in the story may represent us or something in our lives.
The children during the holocaust had many struggles with their physical health. They were forced to stay in very small places and were unable to have contact with a doctor if they had gotten sick. Also they had a lack of food and some children in their host homes would get abused and mistreated. At least a little over one million children were murdered during the holocaust (“Children’s diaries”). Out of all the Jewish children who had suffered because of the Nazis and their axis partners, only a small number of surviving children actually had wrote diaries and journals (“Children’s diaries”). Miriam Wattenberg is one out of the hundreds of children who wrote about their life story during the time of the holocaust (“Children’s Diaries”). She was born October 10, 1924 (“Children’s Diaries”). Miriam started writing her diary in October 1939, after Poland surrendered to the German forces (“Children’s Diaries”). The Wattenberg family fled to Warsaw in November 1940 (“Children’s Diaries”). At that time she was with her parents and younger sister (“Children’s Diaries”). They all had to live in the Warsaw ghetto (“Children’s Diaries”). Halina, another child survivor, tells what happened to her while in hiding. Halina and her family went into hiding ...
Sophie was a Polish women and a survivor of Auschwitz, a concentration camp established in Germany during the Holocaust in the early 1940s. In the novel we learn about her through her telling of her experiences, for instance, the murder of her husband and her father. We also come to learn of the dreadful decision she was faced with upon entering the concentration camp, where she was instructed to choose which one of her two children would be allowed to live. She chose her son. Later we learn of her short lived experience as a stenographer for a man by the name of Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. During her time there, Sophie attempted to seduce Hoss in an attempt to have her son transferred to the Lebensborn program so that he may have been raised as a German child. Sophie's attempt was unsuccessful and she was returned back to t...
On June 12, 1929, at 7:30 AM, a baby girl was born in Frankfort, Germany. No one realized that this infant, who was Jewish, was destined to become one of the worlds most famous victims of World War II. Her name was Anne Frank. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank and B.M. Mooyaart, was actually the real diary of Anne Frank. Anne was a girl who lived with her family during the time while the Nazis took power over Germany. Because they were Jewish, Otto, Edith, Margot, and Anne Frank immigrated to Holland in 1933. Hitler invaded Holland on May 10, 1940, a month before Anne?s eleventh birthday. In July 1942, Anne's family went into hiding in the Prinsengracht building. Anne and her family called it the 'Secret Annex'. Life there was not easy at all. They had to wake up at 6:45 every morning. Nobody could go outside, nor turn on lights at night. Anne mostly spent her time reading books, writing stories, and of course, making daily entries in her diary. She only kept her diary while hiding from the Nazis. This diary told the story of the excitement and horror in this young girl's life during the Holocaust. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl reveals the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because of her religion, Judaism. This book is very informing and enlightening. It introduces a time period of discrimination, unfair judgment, and power-crazed individuals, and with this, it shows the effect on the defenseless.