She adapts her language use to the situations and speakers in different sections of the novel.įor example, spare and heroic language is used by Josef Potocki in the ‘The Castle’ section of the book. ” The use of language by Yolen also enlightens responders. At the end, in similarity with all fairy tales, there is a happy ending foretold by Stan (Becca’s prince) after he greets her with a long and very satisfactory kiss “We’ll get to happily ever after eventually. The narrative is divided into three sections: Home, The Castle and Home Again. The parallelism is satisfying to the reader as both Becca and Josef receive the answers to what they have wanted to know. He had been in the opposite position of Becca as he knew the beginning of the story but not the end. Yet he tells the events in third person as if he were only a storyteller and not one of the characters. He is the witness, the key to the mystery of who Gemma really was and where she had come from. In the story, Josef Potocki takes the narrative into his own way of storytelling. The story tells a narrative in the present, but flashbacks are added in the form of a fairytale. Yolen also uses intertextuality to structure her novel. More importantly the fairy tale references deepen to the story of Gemma’s holocaust sufferings. The placement of segments of the never-completed fairy tale at intervals through the narrative adds suspense and mystery to the novel.
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