Briar Rose

Briar Rose

Characters
1. Gemma
  1. "I am Briar Rose"
    1. "I was the princess in the castle in the sleeping woods. And there came a great dark mist and we all fell asleep. But the prince kissed me awake. Only me."
  2. Narrates the tale of Sleeping Beauty (Briar Rose)
    1. Use of italics and Fairy Tale language
  3. Her Death acts as a catalyst for the later events
    1. "Promise me you'll find the castle. Promise me you'll find the prince..."
  4. See 'Symbols' for affect of holocaust on Gemma
2. Becca
  1. Main Story Told Through Her Point Of View
    1. Binary Structure
3. Josef
  1. He holds the key to Gemma's past
  2. Becca can find the fullness of understanding that she seeks
    1. He is still living in the past as he doesn't know how the present played out
      1. He "feel(s) like driftwood"
  3. Josef lives near Chelmno (like many affected by WWII)
    1. "drawn to the souls of the dead"
Symbols
1. The Mist
  1. Exhaust Gas used to kill the Jews at Chelmno
    1. "What's a mist? ... A fog. An Exhaust"
2. Briars
  1. Barbed Wire
    1. "briary hedge with thorns as sharp as barbs"
3. 100 years sleep
  1. Sleep of Death
    1. "A hundred years, a thousand years, it doesn't matter. Dead is dead"
4. The Bad Fairy
  1. The Nazi's
    1. "The bad fairy... all in black with the big black boots and the silver eagles on her hat... but she came that angel of death"
Context
1. Fairy Tale Genre
  1. Darker Origins of fairy tales
    1. Gemma's story
  2. Theme: Good vs. Evil
    1. Comparison of Gemma Sleeping Beauty with historical events
    2. Good Always Wins!
2. WWII
  1. The Jewish Holocaust
    1. Gemma's story
  2. The affect on survivors and future generations
    1. "You must understand that this is a story of survivors, not heroes"

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	Created by shannon.mccabe about 11 years ago