3/22/2023 0 Comments Nightingale bookSimile is what Hannah commonly uses to compare things to one another. Hannah uses a variety of figurative language throughout the novel. Now, each day in her garden and when she would walk to her gate and when she picked apple, she would pass this branch and see this bit of yarn and think of Antoine.” How when they pass the tree they remember and never forget those they once loved. The burgundy color stood out against the green and brown. In chapter 11, Vianne realizes that Antonie may be killed while held as a prisoner, “She took the short coil of crooked tarn and tied it to an apple tree branch. The pieces of fabric that Vianne hands Sophie tie to their tree branch represent all the loves one they have lost. The Nightingale is an important symbol in the novel. It represents lose because Isabelle must leave her sister in order to save those who are hurt. It represents love and lose because Isabelle has courage and does what she feels is right and that is to stop Hitler and save those who are hurt. In the story The Nightingale the nightingale represents loss and courage. The novel is has symbols such as the nightingale and the strings of fabric that represent loves one that Vianne and Sophie has lost. This sets the rest of the story into play. Vianne hates war because it torn her family apart many years ago. The story begins with Vianne her husband Antonie and daughter going out on a picnic then during the picnic Antonie brings up war and how sooner or later he was going to have to fight. Hannah describes it as everyone in the town of Carriveau seemed to not really be aware of everything that was going on the the cities around them. The novel is set at the beginning of World War Two in Europe. Through most of the novel the author allows the reader to understand each character and their story. There is some during the novel where Vianne or Isabelle has flashbacks and or memories about their lives as children and their abandonment of their father. In the novel it describes present events that are happening to Vianne and Isabelle during the war. However, most of the novel is written in third person omniscient point of view. The chapters from Vainne in the year of 1995 are in the first point of view and she talks about her feelings about her past as her life is coming it an end. The book is written in two different point of views which is very effective for the author and not giving away which sister is speaking in the first chapter. Antonie gets drafted from war, Rachel and Sarah both pass away, Vianne and Isabelle’s father gets killed, Vianne kills Captain Beck to protect Isabelle, Isabelle gets captured by the Nazis’ and get sent to a concentration camp, and Rachel’s son Ari now must change his identity so Vianne could keep him safe and as her child. In the novel covers Vianne and Isabelle struggling journey throughout World War Two. Other chapters are dialogues going back and forth between Vianne and Antonie, Vianne and Isabelle, Vianne and Sophie, Vianne and Rachel, Vianne and Captain Beck, or Isabelle talking to her resistance group. Overall, most of the chapters Vianne and or Isabelle are talking about their experiences and how they feel about what is going on in their lives. Most of the chapters are in the present, what’s going on to Isabelle (The Nightingale) and Vianne during the war. The Nightingale has a total of 438 pages, all of it is put into 39 chapters.
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