My Class project

   Hello all. Well I recently read Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay. To me this is a book that is passionately written and heart warming. I have to do somethings for a class project so please bear with me.

    Let's start off with a little description for the book. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year old girl, is taken with her parents by the French police as they go door-to-door arresting Jewish families in the middle of the night.   Desperate to protect her little brother, Sarah locks him in a bedroom cupboard- their secret hiding place- and promises to come back for him as soon as they are released. Sixty years later: Sarah's story intertwines with that of Julia Jarmond, an American journalist investigating the roundup. In her research, Julia stumbles onto a trail of secrets that link her to Sarah, and to questions about her own romantic future.

   The setting is in Paris 1942 and 2002. If the story wasn't in Paris or in France really, the story wouldn't make any sense because otherwise the roundup wouldn't of happened to Sarah and Sarah's story wouldn't intertwine with Julia's.

   The literary devices used was pretty much very ironic. Think about it like this, your Julia, you've just gotten done with writing the roundup article and you find out you are pregnant. So you tell you husband and you decide to get an abortion, the abortion is scheduled sixty years to the day of the Velodrome d'Hiver round up. Wouldn't that be ironic? I mean c'mon really even though she tried to schedule it for another day it wouldn't happen.

   An inference is an educated guess on something or someone. One of my inferences about the book is that Edouard, Julia's father-in-law, is very hurt about the past.  I think this because Julia brings up that he is more on the inside and closed up about everything. Then later he tells Julia about what happened with Sarah. Even then he seems hurt and scared that because of what happened with his encounter with Sarah and how it will haunt him forever. 

   The theme of this book, uh let me think. I believe that it would be: Even though you try to forget about the past, it does not make it disappear. I say this because Julia describes the French as arrogant and present oriented people. When Julia looks up the past, everyone is saying not to dig any deeper because the truth is sometimes the worst thing of all. But the past is still there. She keeps digging and she finds her answers.

   The author, Tatiana De Rosnay, was born in France and is of English, French and Russian descent. She probably wrote about the Velodrome d'Hiver round up because it was something covered up in her past and she went digging into it. The author's background also shows up because the story is based in Paris, the author was born in Paris, and the author moved to the United States when she was a kid, Julia is from the United States.

   Overall I think this book was a good read and it will make you laugh, cry, and make you sit and think about what might be in the past you could dig up.