Summary Of Paper Bag Princess
“Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.”(Annan) Social issues influence the society and are opposed by the people living together though it is all created by themselves and this is what we see every day. Keeping the social issues in mind the two novels that we will be talking about are Hana's suitcase which is nonfiction and the paper Bag princess which is a fantasy story (fiction). Their main leads are Hana Brady from Hana's suitcase and Princess Elizabeth from Paper bag princess. They aware us with the social issues taking place with regards
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In Hana's story we see the circumstances that she had to go through during the holocaust. The most important element that is worthy of attention is the juxtaposition of the three stories that are tracked in different places and the characters can easily be recognized. The author tells us how the Nazi troops had stereotyped and how they had lowered Hana's family in the rank and position. In this story the author helps the readers to understand the impact of the holocaust that affected the families who became its victim and to make people realize that they can make a difference by standing against it. Levine tells us about Hana's life and what she had gone through and how the holocaust destroyed everything and took her life away. "Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up" (Gates). Hana's suitcase gives a reality check, so that we look in to ourselves and correct and fill out the deficiencies that lacked in the people who were a part of the holocaust. This is important for the young generations to read because knowing the history is an important element of life and it is needed to rethink to instruct the children about the historic events and how the discrimination based on ethnicity in the genocide should be eliminated from our
In Hana's story we see the circumstances that she had to go through during the holocaust. The most important element that is worthy of attention is the juxtaposition of the three stories that are tracked in different places and the characters can easily be recognized. The author tells us how the Nazi troops had stereotyped and how they had lowered Hana's family in the rank and position. In this story the author helps the readers to understand the impact of the holocaust that affected the families who became its victim and to make people realize that they can make a difference by standing against it. Levine tells us about Hana's life and what she had gone through and how the holocaust destroyed everything and took her life away. "Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up" (Gates). Hana's suitcase gives a reality check, so that we look in to ourselves and correct and fill out the deficiencies that lacked in the people who were a part of the holocaust. This is important for the young generations to read because knowing the history is an important element of life and it is needed to rethink to instruct the children about the historic events and how the discrimination based on ethnicity in the genocide should be eliminated from our