After the family moved, Annie’s, “reading had taken a new turn.” Most of the books Annie read had a common theme, a source of imagination, considering most books in the 1950’s were about the past war- World War II. Annie read Leon Uris’s Exodus and Mila 18 about the Warsaw ghetto. She read Hersey’s The Wall, also about the Warsaw Ghetto. She read Time magazine as well as Life, and the Look- all which primarily discussed the events of World War II. Now more mature, so, too, was Annie’s perspective on history. Annie describes that unlike her reading about the French and Indian War, the books she read about World War II and the atomic bomb pertained to recent history and the results of it, “were actual things and events, large in their effects
