Creative Writing: Stella Archer Chapter 14

This echos Angelou's quote as Sarah cannot handle the events she goes through, therefore she lets these events affect her negatively. To begin, her experience in the concentration camp makes her lose faith in staying alive. She sees so many horrific situations, as Rosnay states, “she could see the dislocated body of the woman, the bloody skull of the child, sliced open like a ripe tomato” (33). Witnessing this traumatic event cause her to believe that she will die too, that there is no point of trying, as she she will die anyways. She also loses her longing to live when she visits her house after escaping the concentration camp. When she arrives in her house she notices “the new wallpaper, the new bed, the book, the belongings that had nothing to do with her” (160), as another family takes her home. She comes to realization that she no longer has a home to live in, that everything is taken away from her, which causes her to think that she has no one to live for anymore. Furthermore, she keeps having flashbacks of all members of her family's death, which drives her to commit suicide. Sarah further explains this event in her letter to her brother, Michel, when she writes, “ I carry the burden of your death like I would a child. I will carry it till the day I die. Sometimes, I want to die. I cannot bear the weight

One morning, when I shook Sarah’s hand, she didn’t wake up. Her hand felt cold, so I pulled her yellow blanket up around her shoulders. I crawled back into my own bed and waited. Every few minutes I called, “Where’s Sarah?”, but she just kept on sleeping.

Those three words reflect her self-image as much as how she sees Bert and Eddie in that moment. Walking with a pronounced limp, Sarah lives with the idea of "crippled" and "twisted" every day, but she also sees herself as a drunk and as, basically, a prostitute, telling Eddie at one point that she owes her livelihood to the last "rich man" she dated. She also sees herself as a writer who

He flung her head into the night sky and threw her body into the ocean, resulting in the Sky Woman becoming Grandmother moon.

Sarah is a very selfless person because in the short story she put each of her family

In just a matter of months, Sarah has hastily experienced and heard things that she hadn’t thought she would. As she moved into her cousin’s home, she begins to see how the

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

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

She wants to keep her promise and so she takes the responsibility to come back to Michel. She promises to her that she will find a way to save her brother: “I’ll find a way to go back and save him” (48). Soon, Sarah starts to wonder “how long could her brother survive”. Sarah also starts feeling guilty because she promised her brother she will be back to save him, and she knows that “he trusted her; he trusted her implicitly”(45). The feeling of guilt is always present, her brother is the only thing that “[haunt] her”.

“I see that the sun is lonely. He has left our people to hopelessly search for a bride in the sky.” Ona divined.

In the book Sarah’s Key, Sarah goes back to the apartment where she left her little brother. She unlocked the secret cupboard to find him deceased. This completely tore her heart. I feel so bad for her. Sarah is pretty hard on herself. I do not think that she will ever be able to forgive herself. Thinking that she was responsible for her brother’s death really makes her think worse about herself.

struck with notice of the pain Sarah was going through and it improved Sarah's life.

Further, the suffering of both protagonists provides the basis of the personality as well as the actions of the protagonists. Because Sarah was suffering from losing a mom and then

Sarah ran away to Sacred Heart mental facility where she feels the safest, in her household she only lived with her dad who was a abuser. Running away from home was a huge risk for her and it must have took a lot of courage to go to the hospital with the possibility that he could find her. An example states, "...

Throughout the first act of the film, just by being introduced to Sarah 's family the audience can see that Sarah is a stubborn and selfish character. However, as Sarah is first implied as being elaborate and mean we also see Sarah 's considerate side come out as she begs the Goblin King to give Toby back to her.