Ari Pineda
Leveron
Ap Lang. – Pd. 1
23 January 2017
Hiding In A Zoo The book The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story was written by Diane Ackerman, to convey several messages. One of the lessons that really stood out was, that when evil is presence there is a need to rise up to the occasion. In the book they sacrificed a lot and do things they never though they would do. Ackerman really got her message across by using parallelism, pathos, and allusions. These also helped the book more interesting.
I found it really interesting seeing how Diane Ackerman uses parallelism. Ackerman uses parallelism to compare the people to the animals. For example in the book Jan is a zoologist and owner of the zoo, he studies disguise and deception of animals. …show more content…
This is where the pathos comes in. Pathos is present in the book to show that no matter how hard life is getting they are constantly over coming it. Ackerman is really hitting the readers’ emotions by using pathos. At one part reader reads “Whose lips were blue, and her face so white that we could see many freckles, normally almost invisible. Her strong, ever-busy hands trembling. The sparkle had vanished from her eyes… “Will I be able to escape…” (Ackerman 203). The reader can just imagine the girl standing there hoping to make it, trying to overcome everything that is going on around her. Another time when Jan and Antonia had to overcome evil was when their son Rys got sick. “Rys caught a bad chest cold that sharpened into Pneumonia, and he remained in the hospital for several weeks” (Ackerman 257). This evil is not from the Nazi’s or another person, this might not be evil at all, but to them this was the most evil thing that could have happened to them. Knowing all the good they have done, to then turn around and have their son be sick. Jan and Antonia really had to rise to the occasion they did not stop helping or give up, if anything they fought
Leveron
Ap Lang. – Pd. 1
23 January 2017
Hiding In A Zoo The book The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story was written by Diane Ackerman, to convey several messages. One of the lessons that really stood out was, that when evil is presence there is a need to rise up to the occasion. In the book they sacrificed a lot and do things they never though they would do. Ackerman really got her message across by using parallelism, pathos, and allusions. These also helped the book more interesting.
I found it really interesting seeing how Diane Ackerman uses parallelism. Ackerman uses parallelism to compare the people to the animals. For example in the book Jan is a zoologist and owner of the zoo, he studies disguise and deception of animals. …show more content…
This is where the pathos comes in. Pathos is present in the book to show that no matter how hard life is getting they are constantly over coming it. Ackerman is really hitting the readers’ emotions by using pathos. At one part reader reads “Whose lips were blue, and her face so white that we could see many freckles, normally almost invisible. Her strong, ever-busy hands trembling. The sparkle had vanished from her eyes… “Will I be able to escape…” (Ackerman 203). The reader can just imagine the girl standing there hoping to make it, trying to overcome everything that is going on around her. Another time when Jan and Antonia had to overcome evil was when their son Rys got sick. “Rys caught a bad chest cold that sharpened into Pneumonia, and he remained in the hospital for several weeks” (Ackerman 257). This evil is not from the Nazi’s or another person, this might not be evil at all, but to them this was the most evil thing that could have happened to them. Knowing all the good they have done, to then turn around and have their son be sick. Jan and Antonia really had to rise to the occasion they did not stop helping or give up, if anything they fought