Sarah's Key discussion

I'd like to say that the raters are often wrought out by the emotion of both characters to pay attention to the gaps having read this book and have went threw a couple user ratings; decided that this story is an exemplary example of what happens when you try to put 2 stories into 1 story play, and you cannot sort between the 2 stories so you make mistakes in both and its designed for the readers to mix between 2 story lines and feel what they feel, nothing more. I also think the author got too into the characters and made mistakes in this fashion which hurt both story lines. This is where I am writing a spoiler from this point forward. It is 2 stories 1 book. I will Start with Sarah's as this part gets the name of the book, and in chronical timeline it starts like this. The subject plot line is that a 12-year-old girl is living in France in 1948 who along with her family is hauled off to a French Internment camp where they are separated, stripped of dignity, and sent to there deaths. However the girl before leaving has locked her brother in an secret cupboard and she guards this key for DAYS under the duress of shock and continues to believe if she can ESCAPE, she can save her brother. When she finally does with another girl, they find kind elderly rural farmers to hide them. However the second girl needs medical attention which she does not get because help was unlisted from a secondary source who is untrustworthy and turns them in. Now, they proceed to Paris to the old apartment where the girl bursts into the apartment to investigate the cupboard and finds the dead body of her 4-year-old brother. This is the end of the World War II typeset. The other story which the author started at the same time is a story of a middle age woman who is moving into an apartment, but in renovations, and connection to her in-laws evidence stirs of there connection to the from her in-laws to the 12-year-old girl as the "elderly" couple is apparently the parents to her husband whom she is breaking up with because she believes he doesn't give her enough attention or something of the like, a side plot of emotions to confuse but is not really apart of the story. The real goal is to wrap her emotions up in the girl who had been captured as the woman and the in-law family wish to find this girl because they care. This is where the 2 stories emerge as the author had finished type set about this time prior. The woman learns that the girl now a woman had fled to America and has gotten married to a man. With difficulty the woman discovers the name of her new husband she had taken in the 1950's, and travels to America and discovers that the woman had died in a tragic car accident during a ill fated trip she learns from the man's second wife who is taking care of him because he is bed ridden. She learns the man had a son, and she goes to find him and a fiasco ensues, well of course because the woman (Sarah) had died when the kid was 12-year-old and so of course he wouldn't know, because what parent would sit down to explain to there kid great suffering and such an event? But this woman wrapped into the idea of talking to him tracks him down to another country and blows his mind open with this information, and well, of course he doesn't respond well to a stranger barging in with a lot of unknown information about his mother. Now, the woman goes on living moving to America to be with her own blood family reconnects with the man to discover he found a letter which he believes is a "letter" to them. They just cannot figure it out, they now believe she killed herself. This is where the author leaves her "pen". Her first mistake was I could see she had trouble establishing period mind set to the girl living in confusing times which is a minor flaw she rounds out. The second 1 is the end of the World War II events. Apparently, after discovering her brother who past away in a cupboard during World War II they were allowed to return and mourn and live on the farm the elderly couple had left. Now this is the big mistake. Now, the author was right they could convince a group of officers that its justly to seek help for a sick child if they believe not of the origins of the child being jewish. I agree they could BUY a German soldier at a train depot for pass of a individual NOT carrying standard identification papers. But the times were such that this officer would not be willing to admit he used his power for gains, if brought up later he would make whatever lie for himself, but no support will come to the elderly couple and the Jewish child. Now, they had been seen moving threw towns with a kid with no hair that had been shaved because of lice. Now, when they took the girl, while cards were mixed up for the kids in the internment camp, I am certain they might mix up on numbers, but suspect runaways. Can this officers convince others and act normal after he allowed 2 Jewish children to escape with his dividends? But in the end orders would be given to watch for other escapes as the gap in the fence would be discovered as an EXIT. This simple. Now in the fiasco at there old apartment/flat which was called a house, a female doormen had declared her unjust belief in the movement to rid France of Jewish people. Now, the family the kid burst in on might be shocked at the shock of the discovery of the dead child in the cupboard and might decide to do nothing. However, once the elderly couple leave with the human remains which is obvous as they would stink. This traveling condition would be obvous. Okay, lets say they call for help to move the remains. They explain the position how? The last tenants were Jewish. Its on record. So suspicion could be brang to bear. The girl snuck in and knocked so the door woman would NOT discover her right off as they had talked to the elderly couple looking for them. But she had been seen when all came running when the 12-year-old screamed. They all come running, I guess a doorman can recognize a former tenant. No matter what, when they leave, she will CALL the french police. It was DIVIDED in belief, but the French Police were a division that weren't divided that believed the round-up was in favor. POINT: There cover is blown. Fictional family cannot reside on there ranch until the end of WWII. Oops. The second 1 is that the plot line of the woman purposfully killing herself may not be necessarily true. The letter wasn't written with a Dear Daniel. It was written in her language like a mear statement. The woman was probably trying to show her feelings to HELP herself to DEAL. RESPONSIBILITY and not ESCAPE which is foreghn to a number of people. Second, this means she means to get better, part of facing is to continue to try to live. Evidence suggests the girl on the farm they somehow managed to return to began to suffer headaches over the failure to save her brother. They can subside for these individuals but can return. And they can make you tired quicker so she probably rested more often because of the stress. Now, she had been driving for a few hours when her car got into a crash, she possibly could have suffered a headache and had prior to driving. Why would she go on a trip if she was unwell? Well, her family had been looking forward to it. Notice the mans second wife is very different, well he would select one very different because he would not want another tragedy such as the death of his first wife. Perhaps the author had written these telltale clues in, but had forgotten to use them. So I have established she forgets things she has written and becomes confused. Sarah's Key is a barometer of emotions, nothing more. It has no real purpose. That is the REAL key. If you like this book, watch the Young and the Restless or other Television day soap fiction. I give this book a rotten review and do not appreciate this author.

this is for sure the best book I've ever read for obvious reasons. I just recently finished it.

Perry wrote: "I'd like to say that the raters are often wrought out by the emotion of both characters to pay attention to the gaps having read this book and have went threw a couple user ratings; decided that th..."

LMAO!!!! What a "hogwash" review of "Sarah's Key." It is a wonderful book and EVERYONE who reads it, LOVES it; hence, that is why they made a movie as well. Take a chance people; it's great!

Lila wrote: "this is for sure the best book I've ever read for obvious reasons. I just recently finished it."

So true Lila!!

Read this a while ago, and loved it. It was a great story and I
loved how the 2 plots intertwined. Christine flynn