AnnMarie's Sarahs Keys Review2

The book Im reading has changed ALOT since i last wrote. Because im really into it, its going to be hard to go over it all.
PART 1- the girl and her parents were taken to the suberbs of france and were seperated. The parents went to Alushewts(im not sure how to spel it) and the children of the families stayed behind. The children are kept in terrible conditions. no food or water. everyone of the children are throwing up and have lice. and there is no sleeping material, only straw full of rats and insectsm and there are no toilets. The girl and another girl her age named rachel start to help the other younger toddlers and decide to run away. The girls little brother is still in the closet back in Paris and she needs to go and save him. Since known of the french police ever watch the children, Rachel and the girl decide to run away in the daytime. they get on there knees and dig a whole going underneath the fence. As soon as the girl starts to try to crawl out, a police catches her. She turns around and sees that it is a police man that she knows. He helps her and her brother across the street and her mother and him always had short converstations. He remembers her too. She tells him that she has to go save her brother who is back home in the closet and he lets her and rachel go. He also gives them some money. the girl and Rachel walk for about three days when they come across a shed. They sleep inside the shed. In the morning the owneer of the shed finds them inside the shed. His name is Jules and his wife is named Geniveve. They take the two girls in and care for them. Then Rachel gets very sick. and so they call a doctor. When the doctor arrives he finds out the Rachel is a Jew and escaped from a camp(The girl is hiding in the basement) and calls the police. Jules and Geniveve get very neverous and tell the girl to go hid in the basement, so she does. The police came to the house and take Rachel away, but they dont find the girl. You find out that the girls name in Sarah Starzynski. The next morning Sarah tells the old couple that she has to go back to Paris and save her little brother(his nameis Michel). At first they resist, but then they join her. At the train they give the Nazi ticket checker the wad of money that the French Policemen gave to Sarah, and he lets her on. When she finally reaches the apartment she rings the doorbell and a little boy Sarah does not no answers. She says to him
"I am here to get my little brother Michel"
the boy says, "Im sorry, there is no Michel here"
sarah pushes the boy out the way and starts running into her old bedroom. By then another man appears(the boysfather). Sarah realizes that new people have moved into her home. She opens the door to the cupbored and this is what it said in the book
"Sarah whipped the key out of her poket, pressed on the device with her palm. The hidden lock swung into view. She heard the peel of the doorbell, a murmur of alarmed voices drawing near. Jules voice, Genevieves and an unknown man's. Fast now, she had to be fast. Over and over she mumbled "Michel, Michel, Michel, its me, Sarah" her fingers trembled so hard she dropped the key. Behind her shoulders, the boy came running out of breath. "what are you doing?" he gasped, "what are you doing in my room?". She ignored him, picked up the key and fumbled with the lock. She was to nervous, to impatient. It took her a moment to work it. Finally the lock clicked, and the door opened.. A rotten stench hit her like a fist. She drew away. The boy at her side, recoiled, afraid. Sarah fell to her knees. A tall man with salt and pepper hairburst in the room with Jules and Geniveve at his side. Sarah could not speak, she could only quiver, she fingers covering her eyes, he noes, blocking out the smell. Jules grew near, put his hand on her shoulder and glanced into the cupbored. He murmured into her ear, "come Sarah, come with me." She fought with him with all her might, scratching, kicking, all teeth and nailsand managed to scramble back and open th cupbored. In the back of the cupbored, she glimpsed a small lump of motionless, curled up body, then she sawthe beloved face, blackened, unrecognizable. She sank to her knees and screamed at the top of her lungs, she screamed for her mother, for her father, screamed for Michel" Part 1 of the story ends here.



PART2- Julia is doing lots of research on Velodrome d'Hiver. She has been talking to witenesses and survivers. She discovers that her new apartment once belonged to a jewish family that was taken in Vel d'Hiv. She decides she is determined to find out who the were and if they survived or not. She soon discovers that a young girl named Sarah Starzynski. Julia runs into her father in law and tells him about her discovery and if he knew anything about it. he sayshe didnt know, but sometimes its better not to. On her way to visit Mame (Julias grandmother in law) and runs into her father in law again. She tells him that she is so close to discovering who Sarah is and were she is now. He tells her not to tell anyone but he knows who Sarah is. He tells her that it was there when Sarah came to her house. He said he was only a boy and he answered the door and saw michels body in his closet. His father made him swear not to tell anyone about this, so he didnt. He told Sarah to go to the bank and look and what his father had left him, so she did. She discoveed that, her grandfather inlaw had been sending Jules money to take care of Sarah. she had looked at pictures and addresses. When got home, she did research and could not find anything about sarah, it was as though she had fell off the face of the earth. so she put in Jules granddaughters name. Many telephone numbers came up and so she called each one of them. She finally found the one she was looking for and she gave her Jules's sons number. She called it and arranged for them to meet.