Rose Blanche

Rose Blanche

In ‘Rose Blanche’ by Ian McKewan & Robert Innocenti, It is interesting that the theme: ‘curiosity and innocence’ of the child is used to build up the story. The discoveries the child makes are used to illustrate the setting and what is going on. For example, the discovery of the truck loaded with kids, which leads to a discovery of the fence, and the discovery of suffering, hunger of the people on the other side of the fence. Also, motifs: the weather, the color of the sky is used to illustrate the mood.
More interestingly, there are many similarities between ‘Rose Blanche’ and ‘The boy in the striped Pyjamas.’ There were forest, fence, and soldiers. The people in the other side of the fence are skinny, and the story begins with a view outside the window. This also has the theme "curiosity and innonce'. Especially the boy named Bruno. The adventure he takes to meet his friend Shmuel has been possible because of his innonce, his willigness to explore, and his curiosity to find out what is going on. However, I think the more deeper theme in this book is friendship. A friendship between two boys whos fortunes are really different from each other. Overall, I think the best words that represents these two books are 'courage'. 'Courage' is the key point how the story works. The courage to explore, and the courage to go to a restricted place. I find it really difficult to understand because I do not really hace courage to help others that are really different from me, or go to an restricted place. But, this is why I think these books are really important that makes me wonder about randam acts of kindness and courage, for instance standing out for people who are bullied, racism etc.