To begin, in Girl in the Blue Coat, Hesse uses the symbol of an old theatre to depict …show more content…
These uses of figurative language help highlight the importance of the Nazi influence on the society that they are in, and the effects on the way entire groups of people act towards one another. Nazi culture changed the way the majority of society looked upon the Jewish culture, making it difficult for the Jews to live normal lives or participate in social activities without being discriminated or shunned by “normal” people, losing friends, customers, jobs, and their social status, wherever it may be. Although this kind of prejudice has been seen elsewhere, Nazi discrimination towards non-Aryans is one of the most extreme occasions and is often revisited as a reminder of the extreme injustice and to never let something like it reoccur in present