Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life Literary Elements

Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life Literary Elements

Genre

A social and biographical book

Setting and Context

Written in the context of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life

Narrator and Point of View

First-person narrative

Tone and Mood

Instructive, buoyant, hopeful and encouraging

Protagonist and Antagonist

The central character is Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Major Conflict

The main conflict is that despite Ginsburg being born in an affluent neighborhood in New York, she faced discrimination while growing up because she was of Jewish origin.

Climax

The climax comes when Ginsburg goes against the odds of racism and gender discrimination to become the second woman Justice of the U.S.'s Supreme Court and fights for women's rights.

Foreshadowing

Ginsburg's hurdles and challenges are foreshadowed by her Jewish origin and being a woman in a male-dominated society.

Understatement

The ability of a woman is understated. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a second female justice in the U.S.’s Supreme Court, she proved her competence by winning several cases and confidently fighting for women’s rights.

Allusions

The story alludes to the challenges women face as they pursue their dreams due to gender discrimination and patriarchy.

Imagery

Hearing imagery is depicted when the author writes, "Some of the community realized the sense of belonging that came from hearing a Yiddish radio station playing popular dramas such as bei tate-mames tish (Round the family table) or musical programs like Yiddish Melodies in Swing – though not Celia who saw Yiddish as the language of the Old World."

Paradox

The main paradox is the hypocrisy of religion. For instance, there is hatred between the Jews and the Catholics.

Parallelism

N/A

Metonymy and Synecdoche

N/A

Personification

Patriarchy is personified as oppressive.

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