Hope In Cry By Eudora Rosnay's Cry

Within the first few pages of the story, a darker, tragic tone is established despite the lack of dialogue as a young girl is woken from her sleep by the police knocking on her door in 1942 (Rosnay 1). A sense of hope is also tied into the very first chapter as Sarah realizes the police are French: “If they are French, and not German, we are not in danger. If they are French, they will not harm us” (Rosnay 3). This tragic, yet seemingly hopeful tone established in the beginning carries on throughout the entire novel, working itself into both Sarah and Julia’s lives.
After locking her four-year-old brother in a secret cupboard with the promise to return, which already leaves the readers feeling crushed, Sarah and her family are taken to the Velodrome d’Hiver, where it is “stifling” hot with “nothing to drink, nothing to eat” (Rosnay 30). It …show more content…
Leon’s earlier escape, as well as the good in the French soldier’s heart to allow the two girls to slip out of the camp revive a feeling of hope that the world is not all bad (Rosnay 32, 91-92). As the two girls run, they enjoy and take in the beautiful scenery around them where they finally feel safe and are able to sleep (Rosnay 97-100). Shortly after meeting the kind-hearted Jules and Genevieve, Rachel is taken away by the German’s, yet Sarah is left with a hope that her brother was saved, just as she was (Rosnay 132). As Sarah decides to leave for France to find her brother, she is surprised by the kind gesture of her rescuers: “‘Stop you?’ Jules smiled. ‘We’re not stopping you, you silly, stubborn girl. We’re coming with you’” (Rosnay 142). She knows that the fact that she has made it so far means “there [is] hope left for her. Hope back in Paris” (Rosnay 147). These precious, blissful moments are eventually shattered as the trio arrives at the rue de Saintonge to find Michel’s body (Rosnay