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    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose"
    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose"
    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose"
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    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose"

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    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels 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 Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535819947
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      A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Briar Rose" - Gale

      09

      Briar Rose

      Jane Yolen

      1992

      Introduction

      Jane Yolen's Briar Rose, first published in 1992, uses the fairy tale of Briar Rose (also called Sleeping Beauty) to tell the story of the Holocaust, the extermination of millions of people, mostly Jewish, during World War II. Through the eyes of a young woman, readers travel to Poland with the protagonist, Rebecca Berlin, called Becca, who attempts to sort through the mysteries of her grandmother's past. For some unexplained reason, her grandmother, called Gemma, has recited the story of Briar Rose to her grandchildren all through their lives. Gemma tells her grandchildren that she is the princess who was put under a wicked sleeping spell, but she does not fully understand why she believes this. On her deathbed, Gemma pleads with Becca to figure out the significance of this fairy tale—to find the castle that she vaguely remembers and the prince who saved her life.

      At the heart of this novel is a young woman's deep appreciation, respect, and love for her grandmother. She fulfills her grandmother's last request and in the process encounters the story of the brutalities of the Holocaust. She hears of her grandmother's courage, her grandfather's love, and the scars that the Holocaust has left on the Polish people, Becca's ancestors.

      Yolen has stated on many occasions that this book was written for an adult audience. However, since the story uses the fairy-tale theme, it is often classified as a young-adult novel. One of the topics that Yolen discusses in this story is the roundup by the Nazis of people accused or suspected of being homosexuals. Homosexuals, like Jewish people, were sent to camps where they were killed. Because it treats this topic, some have deemed the book unsuitable for young readers. On the other hand, the book has also been widely praised. Briar Rose won the 1993 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award, was one of the American Library Association's Outstanding Books for 1993, and was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award.

      Author Biography

      Jane Yolen, author or editor of almost three hundred books, was born on February 11, 1939, in New York City, to Isabel Berlin, a social worker, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist. As her family often moved when she was a child, she was subsequently raised in California, Virginia, and Connecticut. Yolen attended Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she won several poetry awards and attained a bachelor's degree in 1960. Two years later, in 1962, she married David Stemple, a computer scientist who taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1976, Yolen went back to school and completed her master's degree in education at Amherst.

      Yolen's long and prolific publishing history began with her children's book

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