Evil In The Painted Bird
Jordana Rabinowitz, P. ID -1381813
Twentieth-Century Representations of Evil
IDS 4920-04
Does this novel characterize evil? What is the nature of evil from the point of view of the book?
In The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski’s hero, a Jewish orphan during WWII, pays witness to atrocities seen while roaming through rural, backwards towns in Nazi occupied Poland, which happen to be populated by antiquated, superstitious pagan-like townspeople. Innocence in a 6 year old hero juxtaposed against evil brutality in villainous townspeople makes the story unusually disturbing and gripping. Typical WWII tales understandably reveal the German Nazis as the true criminals and mass murderers of the time but in the story we see Polish villagers playing
Twentieth-Century Representations of Evil
IDS 4920-04
Does this novel characterize evil? What is the nature of evil from the point of view of the book?
In The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski’s hero, a Jewish orphan during WWII, pays witness to atrocities seen while roaming through rural, backwards towns in Nazi occupied Poland, which happen to be populated by antiquated, superstitious pagan-like townspeople. Innocence in a 6 year old hero juxtaposed against evil brutality in villainous townspeople makes the story unusually disturbing and gripping. Typical WWII tales understandably reveal the German Nazis as the true criminals and mass murderers of the time but in the story we see Polish villagers playing