Immersion Novel

The author introduces the character in multiple different ways that work very well. For instance, some information on the main character is given through how the Nazis treat him. The character is made to seem more weak by having the Nazi's descriptions of him included in the dialogue. The author does not use much physical description of the narrator because it is in the first person. The physical description also isn't really a key part in this kind of story. There are many descriptions of the other characters however. The description is mostly used to show the decrepit conditions that the other people are in. This kind of physical description isn't used until the very last paragraph of the book. The only character that can be noticed to be prominent in the early parts of the book other than the narrator is the narrators father, and this is mostly because he is the only character that isn't killed off within a few seconds of meeting them.

If Euphemisms Could Kill...

Oh wait, they can. The name Kristallnacht is basically a euphemism for the ransacking and slaughtering of Jewish homes, and Jews themselves (and by that I don't mean that they ransacked Jews, or slaughtered Jewish homes. I could have made the grammar a bit better there). There are some other ways of putting this subject into other terms, such as putting a frog in a pot of boiling water (it's not as fun as it sounds). For instance, when using this metaphor, the boiling water would be Kristallnacht. This is because (quite obviously) the frog would be the Jewish people. The boiling water is what would have killed the frog, so Kristallnacht is what would have been harmful to the Jews. To answer the second question, they didn't fight because they didn't realize what would happen to them if they didn't fight. The euphemistic name shows it to be the boiling point because the fact that the event was given a euphemism by the Nazis shows how little they care about the Jews.

The Holocaust Is About Bunnies?

So, the Holocaust is about tiny bunnies being taken away by gigantic, mystery-shrouded creatures with nets? Well, kind of. Because, everything that we have gone over in class recently is intertwined and connected together (a bit redundant). The short humanity unit was all about the goods and bads of humanity. The Holocaust focuses a lot on the battle between the good and evil sections of humanity, the Nazis and their allies representing evil, while everyone else (I forget the name of the entire group against the Nazi party) represents good. The Terrible Things represent the Nazis, and the forest creatures represent everyone who gets killed by the Nazis. These three things that we worked on all represent of each other in one way or another.