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The Renaissance is often referred to as the birth of learning because it was like a rebirth or reawakening after the Middle Ages. Artists and scholars looked back to the learning and knowledge of ancient Rome and Greece to increase their understanding of the world.
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Personally I believe the extended metaphor could be more effective since it provides more info and meaning to the poem itself
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In "The Devil's Arithmetic", Jane Yolen made the death of Tzipporah unforgettable and real by depicting that the little girl passed away with her finger in her mouth and since she was lifeless, a fly could crawl over her body. Also, Jane revealed that Little Tzipporah passed away in the barracks few days after they came to camp.
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Little Tzipporah was the sister to Reuven and the daughter of Yitzchak. Soon after they arrived camp, the little girl passed away. Gitl wept over the passing away of Tzipporah.
"The Devil's Arithmetic" was written by Jane Yolen. It's a historical fictitious event which took place in Poland in the 1940s. It reveals how the Nazis treated their Jewish captives.
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The allusion in this passage and its interpretation is "Thousands are ushered into the world"; although some slaves have white fathers, they are still lineal descendants of Ham and should remain slaves.
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This allusion makes reference to the biblical curse over Ca'naan, where it says "And he said, Cursed be Ca'naan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." this says that generation after generation the sons are cursed to be under the demands of their "owners" due to the lack of respect of Ca'naan towards his father.
In fact, Minnijean is actually Melba's closest friend in the group.
