Response to Literature
One of the main characters in Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah” is Leah Shoshana Hershkowitz, a German-born Jew. Leah is a European refugee fleeing the war and Germany-invaded Europe. In the United States, Leah lives in a camp with other refugee children that had fled the war and ended up in the U.S. At the camp, Leah meets American-born Christian, Suzy Ann McCarthy, who helps feed and teach the refugees. Leah and Suzy don’t get along at first, but eventually become good friends.
At the beginning of the story, Leah and Suzy don’t know enough about each other and don’t understand one another entirely. Suzy thought Leah as rude and prickly. While Leah thought that Suzy was treating her and the other children as pets, feeding
One of the main characters in Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah” is Leah Shoshana Hershkowitz, a German-born Jew. Leah is a European refugee fleeing the war and Germany-invaded Europe. In the United States, Leah lives in a camp with other refugee children that had fled the war and ended up in the U.S. At the camp, Leah meets American-born Christian, Suzy Ann McCarthy, who helps feed and teach the refugees. Leah and Suzy don’t get along at first, but eventually become good friends.
At the beginning of the story, Leah and Suzy don’t know enough about each other and don’t understand one another entirely. Suzy thought Leah as rude and prickly. While Leah thought that Suzy was treating her and the other children as pets, feeding