The Heretic’s Daughter

The story of Sarah touched the lives of many characters in the book “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana De Rosnay. Sarah had such a profound impact on every character in the book, whether it is the scarring and unforgettable memories they have of her or new information they have gathered from the past. Julia invested her entire life into finding out more about Sarah, her life, and what happened to her after a daring escape from a concentration camp. She sacrificed her marriage and many personal relationships because she cared so deeply and passionately about Sarah and what had happened to her. Julia blocked out all of the negative opinions and people telling her to stop and worked nonstop to learn the truth, to never close her eyes on the past. The brutal past of Sarah left a

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

Though this book is written from a young girl’s point of view, even in the first hundred pages there are various forms of

Sarah once asked her children on a Thanksgiving Day, “Has anyone of you thanked God? Really thanked Him?” (29). At first, Sarah fearfully respects God, because she already knows that her prosperity that she has today is going to be taken by God eventually. Sarah’s true temperament is not truly revealed after the death of her five children. “Has death no meaning? Pain no meaning?”, Sarah questioned J.B (109). Sarah is bitter and angry at God, because she does not expect God to take away her loved ones that fast. She even becomes more depressed and hopeless when J.B is still faithful to God at this point. At the end of Scene Eight when Mrs. Murphy said, “And he’s alone now”, implying the leaving of Sarah for her own good. Sarah is an example of fake piety that is fallen after an astonishing punishment.

The speaker also talks of Nell, his ex-wife. Though there were things that annoyed him about her, he still speaks fondly of her. For instance, he remarks, "That's why Nell was good to have ‘round. She could be a pain in the ass, you know, like making me hang those stupid bells, but mostly she knew what to do." This allows the reader to see that the loss of his family has had a deep impact on him. He misses his wife and son and speaks of how families should be together, though his never will be again. This is what provokes him to do what he did next.

Innocence first proclaims itself when Sarah discovers that she is not returning home. Sarah’s behaviour and lack of understanding towards pressing information is a portrayal of how she has been raised to be quite naïve. These preceding traits are revealed when Sarah explains to her brother, “I’ll come back for you later. I promise.” (9). Here, Sarah proves her innocent nature as a result of being raised by her parents in an exceedingly structured way. Guilt emanates into Sarah’s moral conscience when her father confesses that “we are not going back. They won’t let us back.” (23). Furthermore, Sarah’s sheltered upbringing is proved to be true when she smiles at a boy during the roundup and he looks back at her like she’s crazy. She then thinks to herself, “Maybe [I] had got it all wrong. / … Maybe things were not going to

She accepts. Around closing time, Sarah walks over to the parking lot and realizes her friends have deserted her at the club. Sarah panics and begins to cry. Hours later,

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While in Kincaid´s she grew up with a mother who was the worst in her opinion, and the way she was treated caused her to want to treat her children better. She wanted to treat them with more love and approval than her mother gave to her. While discussing if it was a bad idea to bury her mother alongside her brother she

Each time she runs away she learns to accept her past, gets closer to forgiveness, and begins to seek meaning in her life. The last time she ends up with getting taken back by Duke and without Michael to save her she turs to God. Her prayer is answered when an influential man recues her and two other prostitutes and exposes Duke for the monster he is, then rehomes the two girls and offers Angel refuge until she finds her calling. After much prayer Angel opens a house to help prostitutes be trained for respectable jobs so they can find a better life. Before long she has a love for God and find forgiveness and peace for her past and decides to return to Michael. They remain married and Angel finally stays and finds meaning for her life and peace and on their seven-year anniversary God blesses them with a child. In The Redemption of Sarah Cain, Beverly Lewis tells the story of a young woman named Sarah Cain who is living a luxurious life as a busy real estate. However, Sarah’s life isn’t as perfect as she acts like it is. She has pushed everyone away from her, with the exception of her friend Brian who is still kept at a safe distance, and she spends each day remembering an accident on a schoolground that cost a child’s life. When her sister Ivy suddenly dies of heart failure Sarah is made aware that she is the sole legal guardian of her nieces and nephews who are all Amish. She has to put her busy life on hold and travel to the Amish community,

A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s

She ends up renting a dirty and small room to herself. To afford her place, she has a laundry job and after work she takes classes. After leaving from the family, Sara’s life didn’t get any easier. She faced discrimination for being a woman and living alone. Even her co-workers excluded her while on the job.

It’s been a long time since Margo, a sassy, overachiever, with a strong-willed character, last seen her, at one time, close friends. Pondering a road trip, Margo laid out a dusty map on a table top, popping bubbles with her sugar-free gum; she traced her freshly-black-painted fingernail across the Seattle area. She settled on Seashore, Washington. Not only did Margo want to take a vacation, but to mend her relationship with Sarah. Sarah, a bubbly yet fragile soul, was Margo's best friend until she made the worst mistake of her life and slept with her then boyfriend. Poor Sarah walked in mid-thrust. Sarah’s never forgiven Margo for the betrayal. Margo Harrison, 36, called Sarah for the first time in five years to make arrangements for the trip.

“At least she has gone to a better place.” Stephanie whispered to herself. As Stephanie wiped a tear of her face, she spotted Lila huddled up in the corner weeping her heart out. Stephanie knew that Amanda was Lila’s cousin, but she was too afraid to say anything. If she was caught talking to someone like Lila, her social status would be ruined! It would make her from the most popular girl to the 37 millionth popular girl. She can’t do that to herself...can she? She had to do what was right. She couldn’t let Lila suffer in silence. She had to be there for her. After all, that is pretty much the only thing they had in common.

She is 19 year old girl who struggles with her past, makes hard decisions of her present state that ends up affecting her future. Growing up she had a bad life and was given an opportunity to change that. She grew up in a strict Roman Catholic Irish