Jerzy Kosinski

Fame can be a double edged sword as the author of The Painted Bird, Jerzy Kosinski, learned. After moving to America after World War Two he used embellished and falsified stories of his time as a child on the Eastern Front to gain intrigue among those surrounding him. When the book The Painted Bird was published, this use of his story stirred controversy over the legitimacy and factualness of the story. The story did not come from nowhere and proved to be a combination of his own exaggerated experiences, his adoptive brothers past and stories that were told among his peers after the war. This brings into question if the novel can still impact others, and if because of its fictional narrative if it can be taken as a legitimate testimony. Despite its…

Homeless Bird By: The book Homeless Bird is about a girl named Koly, Koly is around ages 14 or 15 and her maa and baap (mom and dad) are arranging her marriage, they’re an Indian family so their culture is different from ours; it’s different from ours in their culture the family of the soon to be wife has to send money to the husband's family and dress their daughter in her finest clothes, which she will be married in. They don't wear dresses like we do in America, they wear a dress called a…

World War Two was a very popular topic for writers because everybody around the world during that time knew about the event which led to different people to talk about how they got through the war. From The Painted Bird, written by Jerzy Kosinski, the main character talked about how he felt as a gypsy-Jew during the Holocaust period. Detailed sufferings that occurred during that time was when he was forced to flee from his bed at an unexpected part of the day and go into hiding in the attic. “I…

For each of theorists, the view of humans was effected by the experiences in their life. Both Freud, and Kosinski view human nature in a pessimistic light. Also, Marx is another theorist who does not think highly of human nature. As the human nature view develop, the way people should be governed is argued. The solution to face economic inequality for Marx was to generate revolution to create a communistic society. Freud and Kosinski would argue that a revolution would only bring out the true…