How would you feel if you had to be worrying about the Nazi´s taking you away for being Jewish? Or living in a Nazi controlled area? In the book Black Radishes by Susan Lynn Meyer, Gustave lived in Paris with his parents and hung out with his cousins/friends Marcel and Jean-Paul everyday until the Nazis came and Gustave and his parents moved to the unoccupied zone where he worries about his family still in the occupied zone. At the end, his family finally moves to the United States fleeing from Nazi-controlled Paris. The author uses description, tone, and revealing actions to demonstrate the goal of setting up the problem.
First of all, the author uses description in the beginning, middle, and end to demonstrate the goal of setting up the problem. In the beginning of Black Radishes on page 1, it stated ¨The Eiffel Tower was ugly. That was the only word for it, Gustave thought, gazing upward. It used to soar, a vivid red-brown, up into the sky over Paris. But now, quickly coated in dirty camouflage paint to disguise it from Nazi bombers, it somehow looked squat and sinister.¨ This relates to the goal of setting up the problem because it described how the Eiffel tower looked like because the French thought that the Eiffel tower is not supposed to be destroyed and so they covered it, from the bad Nazi bombers. The problem is that the Nazi´s are attacking France. In the middle, on page 89 it says ¨You and Papa both have wavy, dark hair, But so do a lot of French people. No one can be sure you
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The book Black Radishes is a good book that uses 3 techniques such as Description, Tone, and Revealing Actions to acquire the goal of setting up the problem. This relates to my life because on an ordinary day, anything could happen that could force me to change my tone, describe the dilemma, or reveal an action that prepares the problem. So, if you ever read Black Radishes, think to yourself, how does this relate to your life? And what other techniques/goals did the author