The Wrong Boy By Suzy Zail: Literary Analysis

630 Words3 Pages
The novel The Wrong Boy, written by Suzy Zail, uniquely presents the Holocaust as she explores different experiences of the past through the life of the two protagonists Hanna Mendel and Karl, the commandant's son. Zail demonstrates the sorrowful impact on Jewish lives through Hannah’s journey at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Concurrently Karl’s perspective, as the son of the camp commandant, engages intense guilt and shame as he specates first-hand crimes committed at Auschwitz. By using both Hannah and Karl, Zail educates readers about the Holocaust. Hannah Mendel, the novel’s Jewish protagonist, expresses astonishing resilience amid immense adversity. Zail employs a metaphor, when Hanna urges “I learned to care was weak, and brutally