Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex. That is the definition of a problem that has been planted in the earth for centuries and has changed the the human race forever. Over the past 400 years discrimination has become a recurring issue that has caused heartbreak, change, and leadership among the people persevered through it. Slavery and the Holocaust are events in history that have changed humanity forever and share the same principal, and that is why authors just can't help but write about them. Artists, authors, and producers have many different ways to develop a text and establish an idea, but when it comes to getting a point to their …show more content…
Alan Gratz--the author specifically pinpoints discrimination from multiple aspects throughout the story. It is based it off the holocaust and Nazi party which was a brutal time and event that caused major separation between Jews and Nazis. The author uses quotations like this to develop the text: “My God, they’re finally doing it,” Da said. “They’re going after the Jews.” I didn’t understand what he meant, but I was afraid.” This is a quote was said during the night of the broken glass, “da” is saying to his wife and child that the Nazis are essentially beginning their plan to establish a master race. The author uses dialogue on multiple occasions to help develop a motif and also create a sense of reality. He also stopped the quotation to put a speaker tag and then immediately continued which in this case brings the text to life and also helps the reader understand that there is discrimination occurring against the Jews by causing a pause affect. These same narrative techniques are used in other texts such as “Sonnet 29” and also a speech by Ben Franklin. They also incorporate these purposeful narrative techniques to bring meaning to the