“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen are diary entries between August to October 1944 from Suzy and Leah. The two girls perspective of each other changes as time passes‚ along with their relationship. At the beginning of the story they two girls didn’t exactly get along. Suzy is an American citizen that is helping the refugees. But she gets stuck with this a mean girl named Leah. So Suzy’s writes mean about her things like “she is creepy” or “she’s as prickly as a porcupine. Which shortly after‚ Leah got
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This book report is on the novel Sword of the Rightful King‚ written by Jane Yolen. The book is about the newly crowned King Arthur‚ who rules the kingdom‚ but not the people’s hearts. If he fails to prove his worth. his power will always be in question. Too many want him dead‚ and treachery is everywhere. So the warlock Merlinnus secretley creates a test for Arthur... A sword in a stone is founded-a stone that contains a legend promising that whosoever draws the blade from the stone will rule all
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n the article‚ "Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen‚ Suzy Ann McCarthy‚ or the girl with the yellow hair‚ helped Leah Shoshana Hershkowitz‚ the girl with the dark braids. Suzy was helping with Leah English when she came to America as a refugee. This was important and helpful for Suzy to do this for Leah even if she didn’t think it was so important. Leah and Suzy weren’t close in the beginning. They didn’t understand each other so they didn’t really feel like they should be close or even talk unless they
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Do you really know what went on during the holocaust well Jane Yolen wrote a special book about how life was like in the concentration camps which later turned into a movie. There are many different things that go on in between the book and the movie like how there is a major age difference and how Rivka ends up being her cousin. That is some but there’s also many similarities like how Hanna still tells her stories to keep everybody together and how Hanna still sacrifices herself for Rivka. Well
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Briar Rose Basic Summary Plot-The book is divided into two parts‚ the "home"‚ and the "castle". The ending is part of the "home" section‚ returning after the castle. The story is based around the German fairy tale of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) which is told by "Gemma"‚ an elderly woman‚ to her three granddaughters. She tells this to the children almost all the time and it is the only bedtime story she ever tells. The times when "Gemma" tells the story are flashbacks and alternate between the present-day
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altered the fairy tale‚ Briar Rose. The original tale was a straight forward story that can lead the reader to come up with a moral. It was one that also had a happy ending. When Anne Sexton tells us her version of Briar Rose‚ she immediately begins by giving the reader a view of what Briar Rose’s sleep is like. She tells us of how Briar Rose feels‚ and gives the reader some what of an introduction to the ways of Briar Rose. After this psychedelic section of a girl‚ Briar Rose‚ who keeps "slipping
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The main characters in Jane Yolen’s story‚ “Suzy and Leah” are Suzy and Leah‚ Suzy was an American. She did not get along at first with Leah‚ a German born Jew who just moved to the united states. Leah did not like the way Suzy was treating her‚ saying “She treats me like a pet.” They eventually found a way to understand each other and treated them with respect. Suzy’s feelings changed once she read Leah’s diary‚ which helped her understand her better. At first‚ Suzy had a lot of questions and
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world who judge people before they truly know them‚ but every person has a different story. These people can unravel and surprise you. This is shown in the novel called Bronx Masquerade by Nikki Grimes and the short story called “Suzy and Leah‚” by Jane Yolen. In the story Bronx Masquerade there are a variety of kids that all come together and these kids express themselves in poetry. Within this story‚ Grimes shows the difficulties their lives were. In the short story “Suzy and Leah” two characters come
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Suzy and Leah The main characters in Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah” are Suzy‚ an American who doesn’t realize how hard the Jews have it‚ and Leah‚ a Jew who moves to the United States to escape the Nazis. At the beginning of the article‚ Suzy believes that Jews are like animals. Leah sees Suzy trying to “help” the Jews by giving them food‚ but Leah believes that Suzy has a false smile As they get to know each other more‚ their opinions start to change. Until her mom explained it to her‚ Suzy never
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Briar Rose Songvu Vu Mrs Joyce ESSAY: How has Jane Yolen made use of the features of a fairytale to explore the themes in Briar Rose? Jane Yolen‚ author of Briar Rose‚ combines both fairytale and historical attributes in one work. Based on the old tale of Sleeping Beauty‚ Briar Rose is a fairy tale within a fairy tale however‚ the traditional ‘happily ever after’ notion does not apply. Through fairy tale elements of fantasy‚ recovery‚ escape and consolation; Yolen has been able to explore
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