People quickly try to put their cold blistering hands in to
the rock hard soil to dig down dip in the Earth’s ground for a hole 6 feet
deep. A young 16 year old girl, Lina taken away from home, put to work with her
mother and brother but her father sent to prison. While she is in the cart of a
train to depart from her home town she meets a boy Andrius were she started to
really like him. This happened in the book Between Shades of Gray by Ruta
Sepety. I believe that in the end of this book Lina will have to work for
years and eventually her family and her will
be let free in America and Lina will meet up with Andrius. Her survival will be
because of her honor and love of her family.
The only thing that is keeping Lina alive is her family and
her determination of surviving and going to live her life normally again. Every
day she thinks of her father and tries to find a way to send something to him
messaging that she is still alive. Through the drawings she makes of what she
sees, she sends them to the prison
trying to let him know they are alright. Her only motivation she tells her self
is “I will survive.” Every day would get harder and she would still be thinking
of father and how she will see Andrius again.
Both Lina and Andrius loved each other, and right before she
had to leave to work somewhere new Andrius gave a book to Lina the same one
that she had earlier but ruined because it was used for smoking. Right after she
got the book in her hand she had to leave and Andruis said to her “I’ll see
you.” It ran through her head a million
times, she knew she couldn’t wait to see
his face. Therefore she began to read
the book even though it was Russian. Some pages Andrius would write things that
made her wish she would be with him like “I am thinking of you, are you
thinking of me?” Many people have been separated from who they loved and were
put through torture like the holocaust and to come through just to fight for
their own life.
A girl, Ellie a
little younger then Lina had to go through the holocaust which was just kind of
like what Lina had to go through. Ellie liked a boy from school but he wasn’t
Jewish so he wasn’t taken away from his home.
Once Ellie had to start to work and was separated from her father and
brother she started to think that she had to survive because she wanted to get
back with her family and wanted to see her crush again. These two characters
remind me of each other because they both had to go through the same thing
which was some bossing them around and had the fear of dying. The two girls
both had the same attitude which was to survive and live the rest of their life
with their family.
Overall I think that since Ellie had to go through almost
the same thing and she survived so Lina will survive too. Along with that
Lina’s family should survive too because Lina would do almost anything to save
them. Also I think that Andrius will find Lina too because they were truly in
love and he had access to send her letters and pictures.
