The Theme Of Loss In Sarah's Key

Loss is a big theme throughout Sarah’s Key that everyone can relate to, from a passing relative to a disconnection with an old friend, these key moments in our lives makes us step back and reevaluate ourselves. Sarah experiences great loss during her journey in July 1942. Once Sarah and her parents arrived at the Velodrome d’Hiver, Sarah continued to ask her father when they are going to go back to their apartment, Sarah’s father explains “There is nothing we can do… Nothing.” (de Rosnay 56).
When Sarah realizes what she has done in her childish innocence, she proclaims “The girl understood. She was no longer a happy little ten-year-old girl. She was someone much older. Nothing would ever be the same again. For her. For her family. For