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A 4 page research paper and analysis of Anne Michaels' novel 'Fugitive Pieces.' This compelling story concerns the lives of two men who are affected by the Holocaust and the transformational power of love. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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know what the events of the Holocaust took from them--Jakob has lost his family and Ben knows that his family was irrevocably changed by having experienced genocidal violence. With
Jakobs memoirs and poetry leading the way for Ben, Michaels novel concerns how each man learns to cope with his loss and finds what can the past means to their
present and what can be regained. The first half of the novel concerns the mind of Jakob Beer, a poet, who is in the process of writing his memoirs.
When Jakob was seven years old, the Nazis burst through the door of his home in Poland. Jakob was still small enough that he could squeeze behind the kitchen cupboard.
He alone escapes. When he crawls out, he finds that his parents are both dead and his older sister, Bella, has disappeared. Although Jakob was, of course, traumatized
by the loss of his parents, it is the loss of his sister that will haunt him throughout the coming the years. He knows the fate of his parents, having
see their corpses himself, but his sister, his "best friend," has been taken away from him with total silence. He can only speculate on her fate, whether it was quick,
or lingering. Close to starvation, Jakob is discovered by Athos Roussos, a Greek geologist who has been working on a nearby archaeological project who, subsequently, smuggles the boy back home
to Greece. Athos offers Jakob a world of learning and encourages his poetic gifts. Athos and Jakob read aloud from all sorts of texts?Sir Walter Scotts failed mission to
the South Pole, the Flemish botanist Clisius, Marco Polo and tales of the Bronze Age. With few people on the rocky Greek island, Jakob and Athos are, more or less,
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