Movie Analysis : ' The Vilkas '

“I looked back to the hole. What if we were digging our own grave?” (128). Lina, the main character of the book, says when forced to dig a hole with three other women. This is just one example of what Lina, her family, and millions of others have to endure while at labor camps. Ruta Sepetys novel, “Between Shades of Gray” shares the story of one family who was arrested and brought to a labor camp. Lina and Jonas were arrested, along with their mother by the Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD). They were separated from their father, taken to the Altai Labor Camp, and forced to work for little food and water. Throughout the story, Ruta Sepetys shows just how much a person can change and learn in one year. In the novel, Lina starts out as a naive girl but becomes a resourceful and intelligent young lady.

Lina Vilkas was a fifteen year old girl who had endured through Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror when her country, Lithuania, had been taken over by the dictator. Her whole family had been viciously kicked out of their home and packed into a cart in the middle of the night. Spending six weeks in a train car with a group of strangers who had soon become close companions, her inevitable journey into becoming a completely different person began. From that point on she had to survive on wit and ability if she wanted to make it out of her absolute personal hell. With some help along the way, Lina had become an entirely new person by the end of her story. The character Lina Vilkas has experienced metamorphosis due to the invasion of Lithuania and the separation from the life she once knew, and her drastic change has affected her and the people around her, both negatively and positively.

When you educate a young girl, she has fewer children, she takes better care of her children, she marries at an older age, and she also contributes to her country's economy. Therefore, why is the education of women so greatly underestimated in many parts of the world? This is a question that has caused many individuals to take action against the act of prohibiting a woman the right of receiving an education. To begin with, education enables parents, and the rest of society, to see the value of a girl. As stated in the film Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, "Educate a girl, and she can change the world around her." Education acts as a safe haven for many young women and as an opportunity of having an advancement

Lina Vilkas, a passionate fifteen year old girl who loves art and never lost hope throughout the book because she was determined to survive. Lina was taken away from her very own home and was compelled to dig for beets ,while trying to keep herself alive in the worst circumstances. She was courageous many times throughout the novel. Her courage showed when she yelled at a guard named Nikolai Kretzsky “I HATE YOU”. Lina expressed her opinion and confronted the man who could take her life in a matter of seconds.

Lithuanian home one summers night in 1941, leaving nothing but broken shards of her life behind. Lina,

“The writings and drawings you hold in your hands were buried in the year 1954, after returning from Siberia with my brother, where we were imprisoned for twelve years.” (page 336) Between Shades of Gray is a story about a fifteen year old girl who has to fight for her survival and find her way back home to Lithuania after her deportation to Siberia. Although there are many conflicts throughout this story, it mostly focuses on the conflict between the main character, Lina, and the NKVD, or the Russian secret officers that capture Lina and her family.

Ms. Ruta Sepetys is the author of “Between the Shades of Gray”. The book tells a story of a young girl and how she survives the struggles and hardships of the Holocaust. Sepetys develops the themes that hope can always be found within despair, and that love is stronger than hate. She portrays this by showing us how Lina and her family survive and live through the holocaust. One of the themes from the novel is, love is stronger than hate.

Jonas has to deal with running away in

“ Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother’s was worth a pocket watch.” (ch. 7, pg 27) Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, is a novel that portrays the hardships of the prisoners of war's lives. The setting for this book changes over short and some long periods of time, the weather, time, atmosphere and location all are affected during Lina and her family’s time in Soviet occupied countries.

In the novel, Between Shades of Grey, by Ruta Sepeteys, the theme of when a traumatic experience occurs, views of the world change, and innocence is lost. It is 1941 in Lithuania when Lina, her mother Elena, and her brother Jonas are seized from their quaint home, and are put away on a train to an unknown destination. Lina has been separated from her father, and she is clueless why the NKVD abducted her. In the beginning of the story when the NKVD barged into their home, Jonas’s pure and childish innocence is painted into the reader’s mind.

Throughout this journal, Andrius can be characterized as helpful and caring. First off, Andrius can be characterized as helpful in multiple ways. For example, he tries to give the prisoners foods even though the NKVD is forcing his mother to sleep with them. If the NKVD found out that he is helping the prisoners, they will probably get wipe out. Andrius continued, “‘Because they threatened to kill me unless she slept with them…So how would you feel, Lina, if your mother felt had to prostitute herself to save your life?’” (Sepetys 159). In the quote, Andrius seems hopeless and tired, but he did not show any of the feelings to the prisoners in orders to keep up the spirit. He is being helpful because he ignored his feelings and still willing

Lina meets many exciting people who were also ripped from their homes during the NKVD invasion, one of whom she ends up marrying. The NKVD are on the hunt throughout the camp to get people to sign papers condemning themselves to 25 years as a prisoner, but with a few more advantages then the

Jerry Renault has a confrontation with The Vigils. The Vigils create assignments other students have to complete. The assignments are intended to inflict maximum pain on the students. The Goober gets an assignment and must sneak into the school at night and unscrews desks. The next day, the students came in and all the desks collapsed. The Goober’s emotional state changed after that. Next Jerry got an assignment of selling chocolate but he refused to do it. People were taken back by Jerry’s defiance. He keeps refusing to sell the chocolate. Brother Leon then blames Archie for Jerry refusing to sell and has the plan to outcast Jerry. The chocolate sales soon pick up and are selling fast yet Jerry still denies the assignment. The Vigils soon

The dramatic love story takes place in the Russian countryside and follows the maturation of Tatyana from a young girl in love to a married women loyal to her aristocratic duties and marital union. The opera opens with her younger sister, Olga, awaiting the arrival of her fiance Lensky and his friend, Onegin, visiting from St. Petersburg. After a brief conversation with Onegin, Tatyana realizes she is deeply in love with him and

Gurov has found a woman he can love for the rest of his life, and he hates the fact that she is not with him. She has left him just as the way he would leave the women he has had affairs with. He feels that she is the only woman to make him happy in the world. His own past has doomed him; He knows he can never be with Anna but trys to make a effort to see her again in S--. He arrives at her home to see that she is enclosed by a long fence, slammed in with nails, a prison he imagines it to be. Desperately seeking to find her he attends a theater at night. He sees her there with her tall husband, wearing a uniform. While her husband is gone, Gurov approaches her to speak with him, as she leaves the auditorium to avoid him. Gurov catches up to her and they speak for a short while and Anna promises to him that she will come to Moscow to visit him.