The Golden Age by https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8 Joan London en-us 2020-11-25 21:04:26 UTC 2023-04-09 15:13:21 UTC hello@padlet.com Characters and analysis fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961570350
Frank Gold-
Cigarettes show the rebellious nature frank still references to.  🚬🚬🚬🚬


Ida  Gold-
-Previous name Terezia Bala

Meyer Gold- The father of frank, and Ida's husband. Meyer is a former businessman from Hungary who now works in a factory and as a soft-drinks deliveryman. Meyer is much more relaxed and personable than his wife.

Sister Olive Penny- 
- She is a firm and competent nurse, managing not only the physical but also the social and emotional needs of the children in her care.

Elsa Briggs-
-Used to looking after her little sister
-Elsa is Franks best friend and love interest. Like Frank, Elsa is mature for her age, which manifests in her gravity and judicious reserve. Elsa is a beacon of calm for all the children on the ward - especially Frank, who sees Elsa as a rare repository of beauty and tranquility in a frightening world. 

Margaret Briggs- 

Jack Briggs-

Nance Briggs-

Sullivan- 
-  He is Franks close friend, he is completely paralyzed and lives in an iron lung. He awakens Franks love for poetry and makes him realise he wants to be a poet.]]> 2020-11-25 21:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961570350 Settings and analysis fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961610741
Past- Budapest
When they (Ida and Frank)  lived in Budapest, it was war torn and they were forced to hide out. Ida had to pretend she wasn't Jewish and Frank hid with Ida's old piano teacher. This is one of their great trauma's in life, along with the horrors of polio. In the book Frank says that his mother and father sometimes speak of their good times in Budapest, swimming in the Danube River. There was a lot of refugees that had to seek shelter (to Australia and other countries)

Current- The Golden Age
1897 Golden Age Hotel built in Leederville, WA. 
In 1949, The Golden Age Convalescent Home for Polio Children was established.

Current- Perth
Perth is bad but sucks more now. In the 1950s it did not suck as much- period.

perth has a pop density of 317.7 people per km2

There was mass immigration into Australia and Perth during 50s and 60s
Future- New York

New York has a pop density of 17,000 people per mile2
]]> 2020-11-25 21:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961610741 Symbols and analysis fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961610926 Light -
A negative realisation by Frank ‘light had seemed less bright to him, older, sadder.’

Gold
- Gold is Franks last name and appears in the name ‘The Golden Age’. The golden age is a reference to the different stages in life, which represents the book as a whole as we see Franks stages in life as well as his experiences. Gold is also associated with the strength and pureness of Frank and Elsa’s character.

The Isolation Ward
- While the Golden Age represents optimism and community, the Isolation Ward symbolizes polio’s capacity to harm the body and the mind.]]> 2020-11-25 21:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961610926 Themes and analysis fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961611246 Survival 🙆🏽‍♂️
fled Hungary after World War II, the Golds live through two major traumas: the Holocaust and the childhood scourge of polio, twin struggles for survival that come to mirror and complement each other throughout the novel.

Parenthood and growing up
-Hard for parents, when their children are suffering from polio but are basically powerless to do anything about it.
-When Franks says "Visits upset Ida" it can be extrapolated that Ida is reminded both Frank's crippling condition and her inability to do anything.

Vocation
idas devotion to the piano
franks dream to become a poet, after Sullivan's death he begins writing his own poems.

Isolation and solitude
The Golden Age Nursery is isolated from the rest of Perth, its own quarantined safe haven.

Strength, physicality and feminity

]]> 2020-11-25 21:17:34 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961611246 Iron Lung Ward fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961786715 2020-11-25 22:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961786715 Budapest after World War II https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961790792 😧]]> 2020-11-25 22:19:38 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961790792 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961830234 One of the first Iron Lung patients during the polio outbreak (1952)]]> 2020-11-25 22:50:03 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/961830234 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/964457692 Budapest 1945

]]> 2020-11-26 22:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/964457692 Similes fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/1201858810 The chapter 'Margaret in her Garden' uses similes repetitively, such as 'Beyond the clothesline the wild oats rippled across their yard like a field of wheat' as well as 'It was all so familiar to her it was if they had faces.'


elsa describes her mother as being as 'beautiful as a angel." emphasizing that her mother is a protective figure.

Animals in burrows.
Frank describes living within breathing distance of strangers as living like animals in burrows.]]> 2021-02-14 21:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/1201858810 Metaphors fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/1201858985 -Light metaphor, Elsa is referred to as 'light that swirls around me' (Frank). She represents a sense of hope for Frank

- The harsh cries of the cockatoos in Chapter 4 represent everything Ida finds wrong with Australia, her unhappiness and lack of belonging in her new home.

Gold is a metaphor used in the book that represents Frank and Elsa's strength of character and the children's courage.🍺]]> 2021-02-14 21:19:54 UTC https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/1201858985 Imagery fle4 https://padlet.com/fle4/e7bepdlseifrdcl8/wish/1201859235
  • -scene of Frank being trapped in the attic, hiding. Very descriptive of how he was felt in that moment (provide example)
  • The Golden Age home is described as an island
  • Nature- Franks mother is a bird who refuses to sing, when Elsa falls ill with polio, Margaret sees a crow
  • The Netting Factory
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    The dialogue between Ida and Meyer in the Cockatoos chapter tells us that Ida has lost her vocation because of Frank's disease. (She had lost hope.) 
    'Play the piano', he said. She didn't answer.
    'Why Ida?' She shook her head.

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  • -Nature is applied to many scenarios in the golden age and is a recurring motif. (please expand)/ provide example
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