Literary Analysis

Introduction

This paper analyzes the theme and stories of two books in which one is fictional and the other one is non-fictional. It also analyzes the impact of story books on children and people. This paper also analyzes the conflict relationship of the two characters, i.e. Hana Brady and Wilbur.

Hana's Suitcase -Karen Lavine

The book Hana's Suitcase is the first book written by Karen Levine. Hana's Suitcase is the true story of a Jewish girl Hana Brady, of New town in Moravia. She became a terrible testimony to the past but hope for the future. Hana perished in the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz. The story of her family was reconstructed by Fumiko Isoka, the founder of Tokyo's Center for the Study of the Holocaust. She received the suitcase in 2000, from the depository's concentration camps, on the top of which were written these words: Hanna Brady, 16: 5 1931, an orphan.

Because of the questions of many Japanese children who were present at the Tokyo center, Mrs. Fumiko decided to embark on a journey across continents to find traces of the owner of a small briefcase. The mystery of Hana case came about seventy years ago about a little girl and her family, who lived happily in Czechoslovakia until the Nazi invasion (Levine, 2003, 9).

A traveling exhibition with her life story, which originated in Japan in 2001, was seen during the first 12 months over 52 thousand visitors. It was subsequently published book, which is only sold in Japan over 95 thousand copies. Czech edition of the book is complemented by an introduction to Czech readers who wrote to George Brady, Hana Brady's brother, who survived the Holocaust after the war and retired and lives in Toronto.

"Hana's Suitcase" tells a true story that takes place on three continents and spans a period of nearly seventy years. It combines the experience of a girl and her family in Czechoslovakia in the thirties and forties' of last century, a young woman and a group of children in Tokyo, Japan, and a man in Toronto, Canada, in the present." The author reconstructed based on the memories of Hana's brother George, the story of the Brady family in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi regime. The Bradys are friends in their city Nove Mesto, a happy family with a small business and numerous. Hana has many dreams, they most ardently desire, however, to be a teacher.

After Hitler's troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, life completely changed for them. First, the mother and then deported the father, and later Hana and George are sent to Theresienstadt. 1944 Hana is sent to Auschwitz. Fumiko Ishioka, the director of "Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center", with sending a suitcase for her 1999 exhibition from the museum in Auschwitz. "Hanna Brady May 16, 1931 orphan." - This is the case and is simultaneously everything Fumiko know about the case and its owner. She promises to the children who regularly visit the center in Tokyo, find out more about Hana. Fumiko travels ...