Originally posted by Peteness
I got a essay to do and i dont understand the book properly
can someone give me tips,quotes, whateva is needed to this Q?
Yoeln has used a variety of technqiues to engage the audience with the text and to create the horror of Gemma's tale, xplian with detial reference to the text, how Yolen has done this?
Please help me with my essay =) really need to do this soon and im worried
Arh, Yes
the novel Briar Rose somehow have brought back so much memories. According to memories Yolen has used many techniques. These include:
Multiple Narrative: Stories coming from many characters within the novel, gives their view as well as experiences of the holocaust. eg. Josef story telling at the end of the novel. Chose quotes from there u feel is significant to the horror Josef has exp.
"we save one.....they kill one thousand" im not too sure if this is the exact quote but according to memory it goes something like that, jus check it up to make sure.
Multiple narrative will then lead to journey, Becca travelling to piece the story together.(Becca's horrific discovery about Gemmas horrific past ect...
Fairytale allegory: Gemmas fairytale allegory, talk about how horrific her exp was, too horrible to tell straight out, so it was put into a fairytale form to engage the audience(creates mystery)
(metaphors eg: the gas that makes everyone go to sleep in the fairytale can be a metaphor of the german Nazis taking over etc).
There r so much more, but this is so lil of wat i can contribute.
Hope its helpful.
