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    A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"
    A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"
    A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"
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    A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"

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    A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535825436
    A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly"

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      A Study Guide for Celeste Raspanti's "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" - Gale

      10

      I Never Saw Another Butterfly

      Celeste Raspanti

      1971

      Introduction

      After coming across a book of poems and drawings created by children of the Holocaust concentration camps, Celeste Raspanti wrote the play I Never Saw Another Butterfly in 1967. Officially published in 1971 and presented as a one-act cutting in 1980, the drama is based on the true story of survivor Raja Englanderova.

      Raja was one of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen to enter the gates of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp located in Czechoslovakia (now divided into the two nations the Czech Republic and Slovakia). Raspanti brings to life the experiences of all those children by holding a magnifying glass to the experience of just one.

      Terezin was created as a model camp, one designed to fool outsiders—particularly the International Red Cross—into thinking the Jews were being treated humanely throughout the Holocaust. Most adults who entered the camp were intellectuals, artists, and scholars. The children of Terezin were encouraged to create. They wrote poetry, played music, drew, and painted pictures. When Terezin was liberated, six thousand poems and drawings previously hidden were discovered. Some of those works were compiled into a book called I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Hana Volavkova. The book inspired Raspanti to translate the children's art into drama.

      The one-act play investigates the topics of death and victimization while exploring themes of the true meaning of survival and what is required to hope in the face of despair.

      Author Biography

      Raspanti was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1928. The youngest of three children born to Italian immigrant parents, Raspanti grew up in a close extended family. After winning a writing contest in 1943 at her Catholic girls' high school, she knew she wanted to be a writer. Her plans changed when, in

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