I have chosen to write a literary analysis about a book called Truck Stop Rainbows written by Iva Pekarkova in 1989. It depicts a journey of a young woman who is in search of her rainbows—symbols of beauty, freedom, and self-identity in a Communistic Czechoslovakia. David Ellis, a literary critic, wrote in his review that “rainbows remind us that history is sometimes shaped by thousands of tiny revolutions.” The reasons I found this book interesting …showed first 75 words of 846 total…

…showed last 75 words of 846 total…attitudes who gradually and almost imperceptibly becomes a commercial prostitute" (200). Fialka observes this metamorphosis, and compares her identity to a butterfly: I have watched myself as a caterpillar in a jar...nibbling leaves, anxiously searching for a twig and beginning to spin the miraculous cocoon. I have watched the cocoon splitting open within myself--and what crawls out of it? A hideous, scowling death's-head moth, haughty and ostentatious, who laboriously inflates herself and spreads her wings. (200)