Who Is Zak's True Identity?

Intro: This book is about a Jewish boy named Yanek. This gives an inside look of what happened to Jewish people in the 1940s. He had a very hard life in the 6 year time duration he spent in the ghetto and concentration camps.

His father is taken away for, what his family said, business. Then, with a surprisingly tender smile, he patted my shoulder and went away with the gendarmes"(11). Sarkis Vendarian, Vahan’s father, doesn’t seem to be worried for his life. He doesn’t overreact which allows his family to have false hope for him. This doesn’t last long. Vahan’s family gets word that he and a large group of men were killed on a march. But, the bad news doesn’t end here. A few days later, Vahan wakes up and finds out that his uncle is gone. “Two days after I was taken out of school, Uncle Mumpreh was gone. "To prison," Sisak told me."They came for him earlier this morning." "Why?" "They claim he is a revolutionary," my brother said"(15). Vahan was very close to his uncle. The two were very much alike. Vahan’s uncle was the silly jokester of the family and the two of them were the black sheep of the family. Well, now Vahan is the only outcast. After Uncle Mumpreh was taken away, a couple weeks later, Turkish gendarmes come to Vahan’s house. This gendarmes allow their family to stay in the house, but then they take both of Vahan’s oldest brothers to the garden and the gendarmes shoot them. Now, Vahan and his brother Sisak are the men of the family and they have to help protect all of the women. Vahan realizes that his decisions

Aharon Applefelds’ short story Tzili depicted what it would be like to be a maturing teen on the run. Readers will comprehend the true meaning behind the work of Tzili, the tone, connotation, plot, as well as the reason why certain characters were chosen to be portrayed within the story. These characters include: Tzili, Katerina, Mark and Linda. Applefeld’s memoir Story of a Life will also be referenced throughout the analysis in order to provide a parallel to the work of Tzili.

In a passage from Zeitoun, pages 148- 150, Dave Eggers describes the time when Zeitoun’s brother, Ahmad, used a street camera to see his family that lives thousands miles away. This anecdote builds Ahmad’s caring and protective personality which becomes a key factor during Zeitoun’s imprisonment. In the passage, Egger portrays Ahmad in a admirable light to show his character, uses an image to appeal to the reader’s emotions, and applies diction to symbolize Ahmad as a guardian angel.

Zlata Filipovic was just living a normal eleven year old life. She started writing in her diary about events that happened in her life. It was published into “Zlata’s Diary.” Then something happened that would change her life forever. It was the key to her diary.

Trying to live a normal life in Zak Ebrahim’s situation would be difficult to say the least. This selection from the book demonstrates the hardships he had to go through. Everywhere he went, he was antagonized due to his father’s crimes. The harassment and isolation at school was a dismal situation for him, no doubt, but what made it worse was that Zak didn’t understand why. From random people on the streets to his classmates, he was being targeted because of the atrocities that his father had committed. This especially important because some people may’ve been scarred because of this, as events like this can produce negative psychological events, but Zak made his way through it. It contributes to the message of the book: Anyone can change

The reader is able to see the emotional chaos the characters are subject to after trauma. It changes their behaviors and can make them take risks they wouldn’t normally take. Zucker opens readers to understand the sorrow of Jews and sympathizers that fled from their homes and families while under persecution during World War II, as well as World War I veterans. In the words of Death, the narrator “It’s the leftover humans. The survivors [...] I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs” (Zusak 5). It is true that this type of guilt is often paralysing to certain individuals; however, it can also create empathy and strength when survivors overcome these defining hardships in life. This is shown through Liesel’s friendships with Max and Hans, and the emotional maturity they each possess. These relationships help bring acceptance and joy back into survivors’ lives, and allow them to release the guilt of leaving one

Zusak employs symbolism to allow for connections between the significance of the suits and Ed’s experiences. Furthermore, Zusak utilises first person narration to display Ed’s transformation

Stephen’s father begins to notice all the time his son and Leka spend together talking, laughing, and enjoying each other’s company and so do the other pulp-cutters. They make ridiculous assumptions as to why Stephen and Leka spend so much time together, and they judge Leka, saying he is odd and has weird intentions just because he s from another country. Stephen s father orders his son to quit spending time with and talking to Leka because of the embarrassment it is causing him. At this moment Stephen feels scared and pressured by his father to obey because he is his father after all, and in the end he is convinced to distance himself from Leka. Although Stephen makes this decision that appears to show he‘s reverted to his old ways and beliefs of his father, we are given hope as we see Stephen still cares enough to wake Leka from a nightmare. Stephen grew up surrounded by men who believed they needed to be strong and fearless to be the best men they could be. He adopted these beliefs as his own because he didn’t know any better. When Leka began sharing his stories, Stephen was exposed to

The narrator is caught between his freedom and success in Paris and his past, marred by racism, which he is again about to confront. Using the flashback episode as an example of what he expects on his return, the narrator details the horrible feelings of helplessness and hatred generated by racist behavior. His family in the United States experienced prejudice firsthand and it damaged them forever. His father 's and sister 's lives were destroyed by racism, and the narrator escaped to France to avoid the same fate. Now famous, he must come to terms with his expatriate status, and find a way for his son to live without the same scars of racism.

For me personally, as much as I don’t understand my mom and dad and as much as I feel sorry or both of them sometimes, I can’t help but love them very much" (Chbosky 13). These social issues are addressed in the narrator's

While neither perfect nor complete, this portrayal of the quintessentially paradigmatic Zarka is an exceptionally precise laundry list of what I consider my multiple positive personality traits and disorders, or as near as my finite understanding of Quantum Mechanics, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Name Numerology will permit - To be and not to be! The question now, like that posed by Hamlet, Schrödinger's cat, and Pandora is what will you choose to do with this less than Common and impressively proofread, spell checked, and punctuated Essay, after cracking it open for a peek inside?

Fezzik’s parents gave him an ultimatum that would force him to fight, which is truly dishonarable and wrong. As expressed, the past major events of the characters allows the lesson of the novel to be created.

This also shows the reader that by Hans recognising the old jewish man as human, the life of the Jewish man is significantly impacted as he now feels something of worth and can die now knowing he is a human. This act of giving bread also impacts the life of Hans, as Hans is made to join the army in the most dangerous class of work as he is now seen as a ‘Jew Lover’. Through this quote the audience can see that change is inevitable and impacts the course of ones life, as through one act of kindness, two mens lives are significantly impacted. Zusak explores the concept of changing perspectives through how he incorporates the idea that change is inevitable and impacts the course of ones life, into the roles of his characters in his book ‘The Book Thief’.

The author uses sensory details of sounds, smells and feelings to highlight to horror of the violence experienced by Chika. ‘…smell is sickening, of roasted fish, unlike that of any she has ever smelled’. And also author uses future tense and repetition ‘never find her sister’ to highlight the tragedy and horrific event of the war and violence. Throughout the story, the author demonstrates the futility of war and violence identifies that there is no positive affects to anyone at all.