Art as a Second Language
Bernice Eisenstein’s novel I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors uses both art and modern language to express the feelings and emotions associated with her family’s traumatic history. Eisenstein blends images throughout her work to help the readers gain a better understanding of the emotional journey that she has undertaken through writing this novel. Not only does she tell the story of her life but she also incorporates the life stories of her family and community. She uses images to further express feelings which cannot be articulated in words. Not only does she use images throughout the story to visually represent things she uses extreme language and comparisons to demonstrate her desire to understand her families past in order to understand herself.
Throughout the novel, I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, Eisenstein explores the boundaries of graphic literature as well as memoir writing. The combination of the two forms of literature is used to......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 1912
Approximate Pages: 8 (260 words per double-spaced page) |