Sarah's Key Sparknotes

In the novel Sarah’s Key, by Tatiana De Rosnay the author tells a story about the holocaust and what a family of four endured in Pars, July, 1942. There is a second part to this story the author Tatiana introduces, during the second chapter, a journalist, who has a job assignment involving the sixth commemoration of Vel’ d’Hiv’. Julia the journalist later comes to find out some information about her family’s history and had they lived in the same apartment where a young eleven year old Jewish girl and her family who were brutally taken from their home in Paris July, 1942. Tatiana De Rosnay was born September 28, 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her passion for writing started at a young age of eleven. In the early 1980’s she moved to England

It is written with detail and done extremely well. Rosnay paints vivid pictures in the mind as if you were there and it was very effective. “In the same hours, the pregnant woman had given birth to a premature, stillborn child. The girl had witnessed the screams, the tears. She saw the baby’s head, mottled with blood, appear between the women’s legs … She saw the baby, grey, waxen, like a shrunken up doll, promptly hidden behind a sheet” (Rosnay 45). Thinking about the young innocent children, men and women who had to bare the evilness in the world is sickening and emotional to say the least. The style of the story with Julia is written quite differently it has a more modern feel, and is done in first person. She explains how she has a family, an arrogant husband, and we hear about her day to day struggle tying into the story with Sarah. Julia finds out her father-in-law’s parents lived in that very same apartment she was now living in which was Sarah’s childhood home before her life was changed forever. At the beginning of the book I struggled with following these individual stories however it became easier as I read on and they tied into each other. It was broken down into two parts I believe for the audience to have a better understanding, from 1942 to modern day 2002. Rosnay wrote in two different

He briefly tells William about his mother and how he will never forget her. He was very welcoming to William.
Lastly the characters who had the most humility were the parents who rescued Sarah. When she was on the run away for the camp, they took her and Rachel in. They fed, bathed, and protected these children. This couple even went with Sarah to find her brother Michel. They could have had severe consequences for hiding these children but that was the least of their worries (Rosnay 117). In today’s society, people are not humble or kind. Everyone is