Surreal Art

Between surreal and fantasy style, digital art by Cyril Rolando

Surreal art blends the impossibilities of the human imagination with realism, usually conveying concepts that are contradicting. This piece of art created by Cyril Rolando contains elements of these. In the painting, we can see a girl of impossible size focused on something on the horizon being followed or chased by many ships. She also has a dress that seems to be part of the ocean.

It has become a very popular saying that the more time and effort you put into something the more you will get out of it. However, the things you get out of it may not be in the way you were anticipating, especially if its people you are chasing. An illustration of this is in Cyril Rolando painting (as seen above) which is a piece of surreal art and the ships chasing the girl with the water dress. As it is clearly seen the ships are sailing vigorously towards the girl despite the rough seas (which she seems to be causing). The Girl has no interest in the ships and she instead does not know that they are chasing her, she instead is going about her life. The girl seems so big to the ships and the ships are trying so hard to be/keep up with her, going through the waves she unintentionally throws at them, but no one is with her. The girl here symbolises the person that the ships are chasing after and the ships symbolise the people who are chasing after someone. This use of symbolism is illustrating the fact that the more u try to chase after someone the less successful you will be at getting their approval because u really can’t force anyone to like you or approve of you, instead sail your boat to your own part if your ocean and be wary that many will walk right by, but its the few that stop for you and cradle your ship that are worth the effort.

Death Quotes/Summaries/Ideas

I am haunted by Humans (thread). Deaths conflicting attitude to Humans due to human actions
Quotes
I am haunted by Humans
To prove to me that that you,, and your Human Existence, are worth it
I steped on him on my way out – page 564
I am Constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race
It kills me how some people die
They were french,they were jews they were you

Yes the boss was at my shuder – page 358
With an immense struggle against my weight i withdrew.
Ive seen many young men over the years who think they are running at other young men. They are not . They are running at me.
Summary
Death has a rather close roll with humans. He sees every single persons death. For every person he sees diffrent colours. Death can be one of the most horrifying things to see depending on what era your from. WWII was probaly some of the to see. It drove many people crazy like Michael who killed his slef wanting to live (Killed himself to unsee what he had seen in Russia). Death can not escape its job. And when it thinks it cant see any worse humans surprise him by showing more ways to kill people (jews).



Death Extract (Unfinished)

When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?”

Very Messy

The Holocaust is arguably one of the most atroshist acts in human history because it targeted everyone who was involved or help people with the label of a Jew. The death toll was around 5.8 million jews and over 1 million of those were children. So the question arises why did very few people within Germany tried to stop it. Markus Zusaks novel The Book Thief can help us be a little more insight to the fact. When it came down to it, one of them called the shots. The other did what he was told. The question is, what if the other is a lot more than one?”. Presented by Death ,who is the narrater of the book, is directed towards two train guards in which are on Lesiels train. The comment at first seems self explanatory, one has a higher rank than the other so one hands out the orders , the other takes them. But it is the last part of the passage that raises the question. Within Nazi territory people were told Jews were a plague to society and many people people did follow this ideology, but there were also many that didn’t believe it and thought it was cruel. Markus used charetcters like Hans Hubbmermann and Walter to show this. The Nazis however operated to scare everyone out of submission to ensure no one would help the jews

Hans Hubermann (Mini Analysis)

Introduction with Analysis

1939 was a defining year in the history books all over the world. The country that was in the focused lens was Germany, it was a year of tragedy and was the beginning of the 6-year long warpath. Because of this history, it is easy for us to put just a single label on the German people in that era, for what only the Nazi group executed and not necessarily what all the German people did or even believed in. Markus Zusak puts the spotlight on this label which also challenges it in his novel The Book Thief. One of the levels he does this on is with a Character that goes by the name Hans Hubermann.

Hans Hubermann puts up such a challenge because he would appear to the opposite of the label held upon the German people in that time in which the way he helps Lesiel and Max within the story.Trust was accumulated quickly due primarily to the brute strength of the mans gentleness – Death. The immediate thing that grabs the readers attention in this extract is the Oxymoron between brute strength and the man’s gentleness because on the surface they would seem to be a contradictory statement. This brings the light and colour into the extract which brings in the attention of the reader. Brute strength is a metaphor for showing his kindness, not in a violent or savage way, but that his strength is in his kindness. This makes Hanns an inspirational figure to Liesel and is a key character to the book.

Paragraph (x) Somthing about max

It is this aspect that shows the reader that there isn’t just one label you can put on a group of people for what one person (or part of a group) have done. Although all the negative elements steal the spotlight, behind the curtains, on your everyday road or even in a basement, is where the good things shine.