Symbolism In The Cage Riva

In the book, The Cage Riva once said, "But we need much more than laughter to make us well. It does not cure tuberculosis or put calcium back into my bones." The Cage to bring us back to the dark times of the holocaust he also makes us believe that in the darkest times there is still hope to move on. Even when they take all you love and something you have affection for all go away, but there is still hope to live for no matter what times you are going through. One of those things is family and that is important because they could take everything you love and all your personal belongings but you still have a family which is more important than anything, like Riva said “But we cannot let the Nazis destroy our minds. Some of us have formed secret study groups.” In the book, The Cage the author uses many different narrative techniques in the book.

The people who are Jews wear Yellow stars on their clothes to show that they are Jewish so they can identify who is a Jewish person and who is not a Jewish person. This piece of symbolism is important because that 's is exactly how they killed them they just saw if you had a yellow star and they could take you without any difficulty of identifying you, if you are a Jew or not a Jew. In the book The Cage, the big oak tree was used as a symbol that Mrs. Gruber does not care for Riva and her family because many people were against Jews and she is one of the persons that had joined the Hitler force. This piece of symbolism is important in the story since Hitler came to power many people were anti-Semitic people and Mrs. Gruber was one of them so she decided to cut down the big oak tree. This is all the ways the author used the technique of symbolism in the book The Cage and this is the ways I think that the author used the technique of