![]() ![]() ![]() She used the fairy tale to impart the truth because her experience is too traumatic for her to talk openly about. She uses the story Briar Rose or Sleeping Beauty to pass on her personal history to her family. But it was all there, buried” (quote from Becca to Josef about her grandma, Gemma) Gemma’s first struggle was telling her story, although written is fairy tale as that is all she could remember. The three main struggles we explore are it is through Gemma’s past we learn about the horrific events lead by nazi’s and concentraion camp, Gemma coming to terms with the events and how she responded, and Gemma making her past bearable. Through complex narrative structure and metaphor of the fairy tale, Yolen helps us to understand the struggles of Gemma, her friends and family in ‘Briar Rose’. The text ‘Briar Rose is written in fairy tale made to potray an allegorical story of the holocaust, Jane Yolen does associate this with childrens stories as they often contain moral lessons on conflicts between Good and Evil, Love, Hate and explores the themes of courage and endurance, heroism, and Good and Evil. We see the characters from the past struggle with forces of evil and we see the characters of present struggle with the quest to find the truth and comes to terms with it. Close Study Of a text: Briar Rose Jane Yolen’s novel ‘Briar Rose’ is a witness to the struggles of people in both good and bad times. ![]()
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