Riva Aquarama

The story I chose to read was the cage. It is about Riva, her mother and three brothers living with their land lord in Poland. Soon after Germany invades Poland the land lady betrays them and they are robbed. The gates of their small community get locked and no one enters only exits. After a couple years’ madness has spread throughout the ghetto, and her brother Laibele gets tuberculosis. Her mother is then taken away in a Nazi raid because she seems to be ill and not fit to work, after her mother’s deportation a social worker tries to find new homes for the children, potentially separating them. Riva fights against them and later becomes the guardian of her brothers at the age of sixteen. As their journey continues on Riva fights sickness,…