The book Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay is about two main characters: Sarah, a Jewish girl who is captured along with her family and taken to a concentration camp, and Julia, a reporter in 2002, who is learning all about Sarah and the Vel' d'Hiv'.
When the French police come to Sarah's house, she quickly locks her 4 year old brother in the hidden cupboard, believing that he would be safe, and that she would be able to return and take him out again in a few hours. She doesn't know that they are never coming back, where they are going. She thinks she and her parents would be fine, and return, being taken by the French police and not German. At the camp, she is separated from her parents, but all she can think about is poor Michel, and how will she get back to unlock him? She eventually escapes the camp, and runs away, far away. She runs into an elderly …show more content…
When she is assigned an article on the Vel' d'Hiv', she goes straight to work, researching. She eventually stumbles across the path of a young girl named Sarah, who lived in the house she is going to move in to. She learns about Sarah's past, and what happened to her and her brother and after. Her father-in-law was just a boy when Sarah rushed into his house and unlocked the cupboard. He saw Michel, dead and decayed, and has never forgotten. It has been his secret for years. Julia tries to track down Sarah, and comes to learn about her life after Michel, eventually learning that she died years ago, in a car crash. She now tries to find Sarah's son, to talk to him. But aside from all of this, Julia is having her own problems, with her marriage and more. She is going to have a child, but her husband wants her to get an abortion, though she doesn't. Eventually, she decides not to go through with it, and the baby will live, though she and her husband will get a
When the French police come to Sarah's house, she quickly locks her 4 year old brother in the hidden cupboard, believing that he would be safe, and that she would be able to return and take him out again in a few hours. She doesn't know that they are never coming back, where they are going. She thinks she and her parents would be fine, and return, being taken by the French police and not German. At the camp, she is separated from her parents, but all she can think about is poor Michel, and how will she get back to unlock him? She eventually escapes the camp, and runs away, far away. She runs into an elderly …show more content…
When she is assigned an article on the Vel' d'Hiv', she goes straight to work, researching. She eventually stumbles across the path of a young girl named Sarah, who lived in the house she is going to move in to. She learns about Sarah's past, and what happened to her and her brother and after. Her father-in-law was just a boy when Sarah rushed into his house and unlocked the cupboard. He saw Michel, dead and decayed, and has never forgotten. It has been his secret for years. Julia tries to track down Sarah, and comes to learn about her life after Michel, eventually learning that she died years ago, in a car crash. She now tries to find Sarah's son, to talk to him. But aside from all of this, Julia is having her own problems, with her marriage and more. She is going to have a child, but her husband wants her to get an abortion, though she doesn't. Eventually, she decides not to go through with it, and the baby will live, though she and her husband will get a