How Is the Theme of Identity Explored in Kindertransport by Diane Samuels?

In the play “Muriel’s Wedding”, ideas of self-worth and one’s identity are explored and expressed throughout the plot, dialogue and characters. Self-worth and one’s identity is explored in greater detail in scene one, scene sixty-one and scene eighty, eighty-one, eighty-two. These scenes further explore Muriel’s character and her personal growth as Muriel searches for her own identity.

The language is the code to communication to our other relatives living in Germany and the U.S.A. It is important to remember our roots, because those who lose their roots, they lose a lot. In order to function in a society, you first have to function in a family. (Tingvold, Hauff, Allen, & Middelthon, 2012, p. 569).

The girls are taken in by an older couple, Jules and Genevieve. While under their care, Rachel becomes severely ill and requires medical care. The doctor is a Nazi, and he realizes that Rachel escaped from the camp. He reports Rachel to the officials, causing them to taker her away from Jules and Genevieve. Although she is helpless and near death, the German guards remove her from the home, “[Sarah] heard... Rachel’s thin scream all the way from the top of the house. Rachel torn from the bed by the Germans. Rachel moaning, too feeble to fight back” (129). Rachel is not only denied the right to be cared for by the doctor, but is also mercilessly dragged away from her deathbed to die in a concentration camp, simply because she is Jewish. Having this label, in the Nazi’s minds, equates to being subhuman.

Then one day Eva , her brother, sister and dad all got on a death camp train. Before the train could get too far her father told them “You run. I know you will stay alive, you have the Belzer Rebbe's blessing." So they jumped out of the window of the train sadly two Nazis shot her brother and sister shortly after they ran but missed

Emilia is the pregnant Polish girl in the group that must disguise as a Latvian woman in order to travel with the group. The tragedy that Emilia faces occurs when she gets raped on the farm her parents sent her to. “Emilia! She yelled for me. She spotted my basket peeking out from behind the tree and commanded me forward. You see? So pretty. Very, very pretty, Take her instead. The soldiers looked at me with their dead faces. A trail of mushrooms spilled behind me as they dragged me to the cold cellar.” (239) The quote shows how traumatized Emilia must have been throughout the war. The rape made Emilia feel shame for keeping it a secret that the baby was a Russian soldier’s. However, once Emilia has the child, the knight or another character named Florian tells Emilia that the baby symbolizes Poland and everything she loves. “He opened his eyes and whispered to me. Kind of incredible. She is you, your mother, your father, your country. He kissed her head and leaned down to whisper in my ear. She is Poland. My arms lifted and reached for the child.” (261)This quote depicts that even though there was death, fear, shame and hopelessness all around the characters there was still love that broke through the hardships. Finally, after Heinz or the shoe poet sees Emilia's child he points how life shines through death and hardship. “What’s beautiful said the old man is that she has beaten this was…You saw it on the road..death and destruction all around… yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death.” (275). During chaos and hardship love and life still manages to expose itself through the tragedy. Clearly Emilia is blessed with a family to love when she has her child during the war. This child represents the hope and the love that shines out in times of

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In 1940, the war begins to intensify at a rapid rate, and it appears that when the war begins the rebellious side of Isabelle will end up costing her her life or someone around her. The difference in the two sisters is evident when Sophie questions why they have to relinquish their radio to the Germans, and Isabelle immediately decides to "hide it", and Vianne reacts by telling Isabelle that they will "do as we are told"(99). This is a perfect example of different types of courage between the two sisters. Isabelle’s courage is bold and impulsive as she never thinks about the consequences

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