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Summary Of Between Shades Of Grey By Lino Valkas

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In Between Shades of Gray, Lina Valkas has a very strong perspective on what’s happening to the world around her as the Soviets invaded her home country, Lithuania. Lina feels a strong sense of unjust, worry, and depression as she’s taken across the country and to the North Pole throughout the story. Lina was groped, starved, beaten, teased, humiliated, and used by the NKVD officers during her imprisonment. Cans and trash were thrown at her, she was burned by cigarettes, and she was exposed to deadly illnesses and hard labor. As this happens to her, she grows increasingly more depressed, weak, worried for her family, and shameful due to her assault. She worries about the whereabouts of her father, who was separated during the invasion, until
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