Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Arman Farhad

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afarhad261 — 2024-10-31 02:14:19 UTC

Here, Drakulic compares how African Americans went from slavery to becoming an important part of America to convey how Eastern Europe can change and become influential towards all of Europe. The author causes Western readers to understand the feelings of Eastern Europe more by using a more well-known instance to the Western people: slavery. Since many Western readers understand the changes for African Americans after slavery, they understand more of what it meant to live in Eastern Europe during this time, and they fit into the role of the audience. This comparison also brings to light the tone as hopeful because of how great of a change there was when African Americans went from slavery to such an important part of America. Thus, if readers begin to understand Eastern European thoughts, they not only gain more interest in the book but feel more inclined to listen to Drakulic in the remainder of the book.

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afarhad261 — 2024-10-31 11:58:41 UTC

Here, Drakulic compares the difficulty of her preparations for a vacation to her Western European Husband’s easy preparations because of how great of a difference there exists between the two. Since Drakulic’s husband has much simplicity preparing for vacation, people from more Western countries relate to the husband’s preparations, however, Eastern European Drakulic needs much preparation for her simple vacation, and this induces readers from the West to feel the wall between Western and eastern countries. This defines the reader as more Western and understanding of the husband’s side. Thus, the appeal of the comparison conveys the purpose of the book in explaining how barriers between the West and East exist. Wester Readers now comprehend the difficulty for Eastern people to travel, and this is exemplified by the long preparation time illustrating the overall dislike for the country, and this even verifies that the primary audience exists as Western readers. Furthermore, most western readers have traveled at least once in their lifetime, so they feel more inclined to understand the troubles of traveling from Eastern countries. Ultimately, this moves Western readers to not only realize the struggle with traveling from the East but to also understand the overall differences of hardship between the East and West.

Symbolism

afarhad261 — 2024-10-31 13:45:41 UTC

Drakulic now illustrates the symbolism of “an invisible wall” between Western and Eastern Europe because of how there exists seperation between the Europes. Drakulic chooses to have police comprehend the “invisible wall” betwean the two Europes to establish her credibility when she describes the division between Eastern and Western Europe. This appeal to the police contributes to the purpose of this book: conveying how Eastern Europe and Western Europe have division caused by communism which still needs time to heal, even after communism. The appeal of having even the police, a trusted person who works for the people, see the invisible wall of the two Europes symbolizes the gap between the two Europes, ultimately conveying to Western readers how there still exists a gap between the two Europes, even after the fall of communism.

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afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:34:24 UTC

Here Drakulic compares the position of the government of the USSR to Eastern-European countries and Eastern-European countries to the US because of the similarities of the views. Drakulic made the choice of comparing these types of views to not only make the audience; Western readers, understand more of Drakulic’s views on the USSR, but also makes them understand the views people have on Drakulic and other Eastern Countries. When Drakulic thinks of the USSR, she sees the worst of her country since Eastern European countries had the same communist ways in the past, and this comparison to their views compels Western readers to comprehend more of why many Western countries have bad views on Eastern-European countries: because they see the worst of their own country in the Eatern-European countries.

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afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:34:55 UTC

Here, Drakulic contrasts the people with “haves” and “have nots” to educate more about the principles and flaws of communism. Drakulic creates her audience as Western readers as seen by her explaining the basics of communism and its flaws, and the “haves” and “have nots” describe these flaws perfectly. Communist systems desire equality, with there not existing any “haves” and “have nots”, but speaker Drakulic had an experience with a “have not” kid even though she was a “have”, and this illustrates the flaws that exist in this society. This also illustrates the speaker Drakulic with a person with “haves” even though she cam from Eastern Europe This contrasts the two as completely different even with communism promising equality, illuminating its flaws.

Symbolism

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:35:19 UTC

Drakulic describes anything associated with communism as a symbol of oppression and hate. Since Drakulic has to go into depth about how much Easter-Europeans hate communism even seeing a school as communist, the audience becomes defined as Western people who have less knowledge about their experiences with communism. The symbolism of buildings of life with the greenhouse and innocence with the school getting associated with horror illustrates the terror that communism had on Eastern people, and this illuminates to western readers how people felt with the fall of communism and how the average Eastern person felt in the situation.

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afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:35:38 UTC

Here, Drakulic contrasts her experience in a taxi while speaking English and using the Croatian language with the differing fees. Drakulic causes Western readers to feel bad for how she was treated in the taxi by explaining her experience with acting like a foreigner and a citizen, and this appeal to the Western readers makes them understand how the East views people in the West. Her contrast of the two situations also helps Drakulic build her purpose of trying to convey the wall that exists between Eastern and Western countries with Eastern people charging a higher taxi fare to Western people than their people.

Symbolism

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:36:02 UTC

Drakulic now explains how uniforms act as a symbol of uniformity. Drakulic inspires a sense of freedom by appealing to the Western reader’s need for it. This apeal to Western readers goes back to events such as woodstock that aimed to make free choice more viable for Western countries, and Drakulic’s knowledge of this context helps her apeal to her audience of Western Readers. Uniformity goes against the Western culture, so Western readers begin to understand why Eastern Europeans became mad at communism for taking away all of what Wester people value: free choice.

Metaphor

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:36:24 UTC

Drakulic now uses a metaphor of former communist countries with a king acting as children in need of a father. Drakulic chooses to add a metaphor of a kid needing a father to represent how needy Eastern countries were after communism ended. Drakulic tries to inform Western readers about how people living in post-communist countries felt, and since Eastern people already know this feeling, the author’s intention falls more on informing Western readers. Ultimately, the metaphor relates the relationship between child and father since everyone has had this experience, and this inclines Western readers to understand more of the feelings of Eastern Europeans during this time.

Dialogue

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:36:44 UTC

In these lines, Drakulic uses the dialogue of her and her husband about buying a vacuum cleaner to convey the difficulty of living in Eastern Europe. Drakulic must have had many problems similar to the vacuum situation, and this must have acted as part of the exigence of why she wrote this book. Drakulic faces the problem of wanting to buy a vacuum cheaper in another country, and she has to cheat her way around a corrupt system of declaring objects traveling country to country to get something as useful but as simple as a vacuum. This frustration Drakulic gets from buying the simple vacuum exists as just the start of how one living in the East must solve their problems, and this acts as the exigence of why Drakulic wrote this book.

Positive Diction

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:36:59 UTC

Here, Drakulic uses positive diction to explain to the western readers about the unity in Eastern Europe. Drakulic uses positive diction to explain how in a bar, the people speak three different languages, meaning that there exists much unity among the people there. For most of this book, Drakulic communicated how bad off Eastern Europe became after the fall of communism, however, now Drakulik makes an appeal by explaining how even with the division of Eastern Europe from other countries, there still exists unity within Eastern Europe. The positive diction builds on the purpose by bringing hope into a place triffled by communism. This makes the western readers feel inspired that even after communism causing so many probles to the East, there still exists positives with people across Europe.

Joyful Imagery

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:37:30 UTC

In these lines, Drakulic uses joyful imagery of the birthday of deceased communist leader Ceausescu to explore an unusual attitude towards communism. The context behind this celebration exists as Ceausecu recently becoming executed after the fall of communism, and strangly many people gathered at his grave on his birthday to celebrate communism. Here, Drakulic’s use of joyful imagery lends the text a sense of happiness and unity, just as the communist way promised. The appeal of the party honoring the brutal communist dictator Ceausescu oddly creates joyful imagery to convey how some people had doubts about shifting away from communism. Part of the context of the fall of communism existed as some people had great lives during communism and now that it collapsed, they feel threatened about the changing times. The appeal of the party at Ceausecu conveys the joy that some Eastern Europeans had for communism.

Negetive Diction

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:38:04 UTC

Here, Drakulic uses negitive diction to convey how the shift away from communism acted too fast. Here, Drakulic’s mother having a negitive attitude of the father’s grave and attempt to hide it represents the context of Eatern Europe with how after they shifted away from communism, the countries tried to hide their communist roots behind, but with negitivity, communism got engraved in their history. The negitive diction of Drakulic’s mother trying to cover up the father’s grave but failing makes the audience of westernreaders feel bad not only for the mother but for all of Western Europe which cannot hide their past.

Rhetorical Questions

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:38:31 UTC

Here, Drakulic uses rhetorical questions to convey not only the atrocities of communist leaders but also the confusion caused by them. Drakulic had the choice of using rhetorical questions to convey to Western readers the terrible things that they did, however, Western readers already understand that communist dictators were bad, so her purpose for using rhetorical questions was to consider if communist leaders had doubts about what they did or not. The fact that they may have had doubts creates a hopeful tone even in the face of something as bad as communism. This reveals the context of the book as a post-communist Eastern Europe that overall had much confusion about communism’s validity and if there existed any good to it. The rhetorical questions highlight how many people in the East had questions about Communism since they underwent a huge shift of opinion.

Negitive Diction

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:39:35 UTC

Drakulic utilizes negative diction with the family of a past communist dictator getting held back in life to convey the unfair nature of communist Europe. Drakulic uses negative action where the family of a past communist dictator who were all found innocent were denied jobs and passports, two basic human rights. This reveals more about the context of post-communist Europe by conveying how terribly many Eastern European people viewed communism after it ended. Drakulic also personally interviewed this person, so bringing this awful story to light may serve as part of the exigence of writting this book.

Positive Imagery

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:39:53 UTC

Here, Drakulic utilizes positive imagery with the food of the president of Croatia to convey the fruits of the transition out of communism. In these lines, Drakulic describes the president of Croatia as “running pleasantly through his veins”, and this imagery conveys exactly how Croatia acted after the shift out of communism. Since Eastern Europeans know the shift themselves, Drakulic’s choice of describing it conveys how the audience of this book exists as Western readers who have lesser knowledge and experience with communism. The context behind this exists as the sudden shift out of communism for Croatia and the positive way the president adapted to this sudden shift, and Drakulic explains the context because the audience; Western readers, has little information about this subject. Therefore, the positive imagery illuminates how positively Croatia acted after the shift out of communism, and this gets portrayed by the positive imagery of the president of Croatia’s meal.

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afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:40:17 UTC

In these lines, Drakulic contrasts the life of a small village and a large city to illustrate how Eastern Europe exists. She explains how in villages, one has a smaller group of people who they have to get along with and have to rely on more than in a big city with many people. Drakulic chooses to contrast these two locations to establish the audience as Western readers because they would mostly not understand what village life consists of. Drakulic does this to ultimately convey the purpose of describing the separation that exists between the East and West just based on their contrasting lifestyles.

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afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:40:52 UTC

Here, Drakulic compares good teeth to a good financial position because of how normal good hygiene exists in the West. The audience of this book gets defined as Western readers since Drakulic uses a concept Western people have as a norm to define people with finnancial success. Drakulic makes the choice of comparing good teeth with more money to convey how well off westrrn readers exist compared to eatern readers. Drakulic also pointed out how something common with the west exists as a show of finnancial success to convey what Eastern-Europeans felt after communism. Since good hygene is even expected in the West, it acting as a mark of wealth makes Western readers sympathise for Eastern Europeans and get their struggles.

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afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:41:28 UTC

Drakulic utilizes contrasting the views of Jewish people to the views of people who lived in places where there used to exist communism. Drakulic’s choice to contrast her views and Jewish views exemplifies how Eastern Europeans felt as if they needed to live only in the “present” because that is how they lived in the time of communism. Drakulik also included the viewpoints of living in the “present” because of communist views influencing “Eastern Europeans” to strengthen how the audience exists as Western readers since they have less information about this topic.

Informative Diction

afarhad261 — 2024-11-01 01:42:08 UTC

Drakulic now uses informative diction to convey differing interests of all European countries. Throughout the book, Drakulic illustrates the division between Western and Eastern countries, and she now confirms this directly with informative diction. This purpose of conveying the division of Europe lingered through the book with various instances, and now, the Bosnians getting informed about it adds to the informative diction and represents readers finally grasping this division. The choice to confirm the division of Eastern and Western Europe at the end of the book wraps up Drakulic’s previous instances of explaining the division to Western Readers and confirms her overall purpose.