Identity, Love, And Truth In 'The Nightingale' By Kristin Hannah

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Identity, Love, and Truth are key factors in everyone's life and helps them in their decision making skills and their well being. The Nightingale is about this girl who wants to fight the Nazis to save France, but is brought down due to her family and everyone one else. So Isabelle decides to join a French resistance group and is sent to Paris to hand out papers there instead of Carriveau. While Isabelle is in Paris with the Nazi soldier that offered to come with on the trip due to he lived in their home back in Carriveau. Now in France they are collecting Jews and sending them off to concentration camps. While all of this is going on Isabelle is still trying to fight what is happening to her home. While reading this book, the author made it clear that Isabelle is trying to find herself and what love is. Kristin Hannah makes it easy for the readers to visualize the intense scenes, and evaluate what happened in Isabelle’s love situation in the book. …show more content…
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.” (Hannah) This is a quote that emphasises on the how your life can change with finding your identity and having love. Everyone has a different perspective when they have a soul mate or have a dramatic life changing event that gives you the answer to you self also known as your identity. During this book Isabelle is trying to find her identity and thinks she found love but is not quite

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