Holocaust by Bullets Literary Elements

Historical novel

The action described takes place in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus in the years following the end of the Second World War.

The action is told from the perspective of a third-person objective point of view.

The tone and mood is a violent one.

The protagonists are the Jews and those who tried to find justice for them and the antagonists are the Nazis.

The major conflict is between the will to live and the nationalistic views of the Nazis.

The action reaches its conflict when mass graves containing the bodies of countless murdered Jews are discovered.

At the beginning of the book, the narrator describes how Father Desbois heard countless stories about what happened during the Holocaust and about the people killed during that time. He is deeply affected by everything he sees and hears, affecting him in a way he didn't experience until then. This foreshadows the later instances in which the character will do everything he can to help those who are suffering.

When the narrator claims that the pain stopped once the war ended is an understatement because he later describes how the people continued to suffer long after Germany lost the war.

The main allusion we find here is the idea that every German person who was alive during the Second World War is responsible in some way or another for the suffering endured by the Jewish population.

One of the most important images in the story is that of the people who were traumatized by the events they experienced during the Second World War. This image is important here because it shows just how much these types of events can affect a person and how hard it is for them to get over it.

One of the most paradoxical ideas presented in the story is the way in which the former Nazis continue to harbor the idea that are superior even though they are proven false time and time again.

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The bullets are used here as a general term to make reference to the violent nature of the Nazis.

We have a personification in the sentence "those pits were always hungry, demanding more and more with each day".