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The book I'm doing my book report on is “Between Shades of Gray.” The author of this book is Ruta Sepetys. The setting of this book is sad and upsetting. Most of the action take place on a prison camp in the Altai region, north of China and on a prison camp in the Arctic Circle. This book takes place during World War II. The prison camps that the characters had to stay at was very nasty, smelly, ugly, and upsetting. I believe that the author picked this for the setting to show what the prisoners in this time had to go through during that time.
The main character in this book was a teenage girl named Lina. She looked very tired, dirty, and miserable, but when she wasn’t in the prison camps she was very pretty and looked intelligent. Lina had a very determined personality. “ Like mother, I tired to think positive.”, this shows that she didn’t see the bad in everything. “I was sliding, tangled in panics undertow.”, this shows that she doesn’t keep calm when she’s in bad situations.
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Lina’s main goal in the book is to survive, and protect her mother and little brother. She is doing this so they can find her dad, and go back to Lithuania to live happily again. The main thing in this book working against Lina is Stalin Solan. The climax of the book was when they go to the prison camps and were fighting to stay
Have you ever thought to yourself “I have a terrible life”? If you have, you most likely have not experienced something as abhorrent as Misha Pilsudski did. He led a simple life in germany, stealing bread and running. However, everything changed in the book Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. He gets sent to ghetto where he lives for over a year, until the Nazis come to take them to the camps. He ends up losing his newly found sister, and soon finds himself on a farm.
Most of the story Night takes place in a concentration camp, so cruelty is going to be normal for the prisoners at the camp. The point of this essay is to give examples of how cruelty is a theme in the story Night.
"Nominated for a 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War is Anita Lobel's gripping memoir of surviving the Holocaust. A Caldecott-winning illustrator of such delightful picture books as On Market Street, it is difficult to believe Lobel endured the horrific childhood she did. From age 5 to age 10, Lobel spent what are supposed to be carefree years hiding from the Nazis, protecting her younger brother, being captured and marched from camp to camp, and surviving completely dehumanizing conditions. A terrifying story by any measure, Lobel's memoir is all the more haunting as told from the first-person, child's-eye view. Her girlhood voice tells it like it is, without irony or even complete understanding, but with matter-of-fact honesty and astonishing attention to detail. She carves vivid, enduring images into readers' minds. On hiding in the attic of the ghetto: "We were always told to be very quiet. The whispers of the trapped grown-ups sounded like the noise of insects rubbing their legs together." On being discovered while hiding in a convent: "They lined us up facing the wall. I looked at the dark red bricks in front of me and waited for the shots. When the shouting continued and the shots didn't come, I noticed my breath hanging in thin puffs in the air." On trying not to draw the attention of the Nazis: "I wanted to shrink away. To fold into a small invisible thing that had no detectable smell. No breath. No flesh. No sound."
Character analysis Annemarie is a normal young girl, ten years old, she has normal difficulties and duties like any other girl. but these difficulties aren’t normal ones, she’s faced with the difficulties of war. This war has made Annemarie into a very smart girl, she spends most of her time thinking about how to be safe at all times “Annemarie admitted to herself,snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage.” (4.60) even though shes going through a lot she still controls it very well.
Many times in stories, authors will use the setting to set the stage for the story. The setting is like the foundation of the story, and without one the story seems merely lost. Quite often the setting will build up the story and affect the characters, and the characters behaviors. Against the backdrop of a Holocaust concentration camp, Ozick produces two static characters whose lack of development throughout the story emphasizes the theme of overwhelming hopelessness.
...nterpretation of the story would be distinct with each setting. For example if he was to choose to write this story with a lower class, African-American social setting the interpretation the audience would acquire would much different. It could be to represent the enslavement era or the civil rights movement. Thus, setting is extremely crucial to the ultimate interpretation of the story.
Between Shades of Gray was a phenomenal book in a different perspective of World War ll. The story is told by Lina, a girl during the devastating hardships she, her mother, and brother experience when they get captured and taken to a Soviet prison camp. She takes a long journey cramped in a train car with the other prisoners, many that don’t survive. When she and the survivors make it to the camp they face struggles like no other such as starvation, harsh winters, and illnesses. She also must be away from her father because he and other men are taken to another prison camp somewhere in Siberia. This book gives the outlook on someone who is confident in Hitler to do good. She believes that he can push the Soviets out of her country, and she can come home.
Once a loving, understanding, and supporting relationship, the friendship between Mistress and Lina begins to deteriorate after the death of Jacob. Mistress assumes a role of power over Lina, when she states, “outside sleeping is for savages,” (Morrison 186) like Lina. As a result, Lina begins to lose some of her control over her will to fight against how the world views her. Lina feels “a peculiar sensation…of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity” (W.E.B. DuBois 2). By forcing Lina recognize her status as a “savage,” Lina recognizes the idea coined by W.E.B. DuBois- “double consciousness.” She “continue[s] to do her work carefully, calmly but Scully disagreed, said she was simmering…the skin near breaking, needing quick removal, cooling” (Morrison 170). Lina attempts to remain level-headed, by trying to mix together the “savage” and her Native American roots. However, the overwhelming pressure of double consciousness causes her to “simmer.” As Scully states the “skin near breaking” Lina’s identity threatens to break free from her grasp. Lina spirals towards her final breaking point and eventual denouement—no longer able to find her true
Adeline, from the novel Chinese Cinderella, has many hardships and difficulties in her life, particularly abuse, neglect and loss. It’s clear that she never gives in and is always able to overcome these difficulties, with her determination and resilience, her optimistic and hopeful attitude, the support from loved ones and her imagination. By using these strategies, Adeline is able to push through her troubles and eventually win in the end.
Johannsen Zoe. “I will survive: one girls life in a Nazi death camp.” (2013). Web. 5 Dec. 2013.
Life is full of surprises, you never know when something bad is going to happen. In the short story “Catch” by Sarah Ellis, Rita experiences this problem. At first Rita is a happy girl who just got her driver’s license, but when her Aunt Darlene gets distracted by an old man, she begins to show the behaviors of a typical moody teenager; acting upset, selfish and angry. Rita is a dynamic character showing characteristics including; quick-tempered, devoted and impatient. Despite this, after a terrifying experience, she changes her worldview and way of thinking.
"Obsession is a commitment; you have to believe in it, because it soon takes you over." A chilling statement made by Pilar Vilades in a New York Times Magazine article regarding how time consuming an obsession can be. This is exceptionally true in cases of OCD. The human mind is truly one of this world's wonders, and watching how a person with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder behaves will cause one to cherish sanity. However, even those who are considered sane experience their share of obsessive feelings in the more benign form of infatuation. Whichever word is used to describe it, the essence of both words resides in the dominance of one's mind by a single, reoccurring thought.
One is struck by the extreme cruelty and hardship he faced while only an emotionally vulnerable child and adolescent. As Wright generalizes his own experiences to show how the society functioned at the time, one may wonder how many individuals were crushed by similar circumstances.
Isabel with the striking red hair that starts fires from miles and miles away, Isabel with the icy blue eyes that make others shiver, Isabel the one with the constant white teeth showing, the girl who has tears swarm her eyes every moment of the day, the one who takes out a mask, securely places the plastic onto her pale face, offering a hand to hold when there is no light in sight, lending a shoulder as a tissue for tears, whispering kind words as someone else’s tears stain her cotton shirt.
There are numerous works of literature that recount a story- a story from which inspiration flourishes, providing a source of liberating motivation to its audience, or a story that simply aspires to touch the hearts and souls of all of those who read it. One of the most prevalent themes in historical types of these kinds of literature is racism. In America specifically, African Americans endured racism heavily, especially in the South, and did not gain equal rights until the 1960s. In her renowned book The Color Purple, Alice Walker narrates the journey of an African American woman, Celie Johnson (Harris), who experiences racism, sexism, and enduring hardships throughout the course of her life; nonetheless, through the help of friends and family, she is able to overcome her obstacles and grow into a stronger, more self-assured individual. While there are numerous themes transpiring throughout the course of the novel, the symbolism is one of the strongest prospects for instigating the plot. In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, numerous symbols influence and drive the plot of the novel.