Extracts from this document. Introduction In Briar Rose, the author Jane Yolen, introduces the audience to a variety of significant ideas that she portrays throughout the text and uses interesting techniques to convey these ideas. She reveals the concept of parallelism by intertwining the stories: Sleeping Beauty and the Holocaust. She uses symbolism to highlight the atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust. Yolen uses postmodern ideas with the use of flashback of the past to retell a fairytale version that Becca?s grandmother Gemma told her growing up. Becca the protagonist discovers this story to be an allegory of the Holocaust. Briar Rose has an authentic narrative structure as two parallel stories of the Holocaust and Brair Rose are intertwined and told simultaneously.

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The novel incorporates Gemma?s version of the fairytale which is a metaphor for her own life and experiences during the holocaust. Her personal story corresponds with the fairy tale, and she passes this information on to her granddaughter through her dying words?I was the princess in the castle. The Prince kissed me.? This refers to Gemma?s experience in the gas chamber when Aron resuscitates her and gives her a second chance at life.

Her dying wish was for Becca to unravel the mystery shown when she says?Promise me you will find the castle. Promise me you will find the prince.? This repetition?promise,? Highlights Gemma?s dying request to Becca to discover the parallel story and the truth behind Briar Rose. Middle?All the bones of many princes who had been before rose up from the thorn bush singing? Alludes to the many who lost their lives, bravely fighting to save others. These symbols of death, show the readers the cruelty that the victims faced during the Holocaust.