Sarahs Key Notes

Paris 1942 Sarah, and her parents were taken by the

police, her little brother stayed hidden in the hidden
closet of their room.
Paris 2009 Zoe goes to see the apartment of Mame
(her grandmother), with her mother and her father.
They will be moving to this apartment after remodeling.
*When Zoes grandparents were young they were only
able to afford part of the apartment, then as the time
passed they continued to extend their property.
Zoes mom works in an publishing company, and she is
doing an article on the 16th and 17th of July 1942.
16th and 17th of July 1942 they arrested 13,000 mostly
women and children. First they separated them, and
put them in inhuman conditions and then they sent
them to the camps.
Sarah and her family are taken on a bus with all of the
other Jews. She believes that they are one day going
back home, but then her father explains that they are
never going back.
Anna a Jew Sarah and her family met while waiting by
the tracks.
Anna was able to escape, when Sarahs father noticed
that it was possible to escape, he tried to go look for his
son, but the police didnt let him. He was attacked by
the guards.
36 Rue Saintonge 3rd floor
The Velodrome:

Zoes mom interviewed some people for her research,

after a few days that the Jews were taken, they had to
maintain all of their windows closed because of the
smell.
Sarah fell asleep, she was later woken by her father.
The left in trucks to the camps
The ones who went to Pithiviers were released
Mrs. Tezac (Zoes mom)
Maiden name: Jarmond
Mame moved to the apartment on1942 during the war
William: Sarahs son. He gives Julia the card, and they
discover she committed suicide.
Auschwitz-concentration camp (Hitler Youth/The boy in
the striped pijamas)

Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi-author/main character
Best committed students
All women

Nima
Nassrin
Manna the wild one
Islamic Republic of Iran (Setting)
Mitra-calmest among us, dimples
Sanaz
Nassrin-she didnt make it to the end
This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than
its presences.
Nassrin? I once called her the Cheshire cat, appearing
and disappearing at unexpected turns in my academic
life.
Nassrin was Nassrin
Poet-Manna, dark eyes
Mahshid-delicate features and retreating smile
Nassrin-sensitive/fragile
Yassi-youngest in our group
Azin-my tallest student, with her long blond hair and
pink T-shirt
We speak of facts, yet facts exist only partially to us if
they are not repeated and re-created through emotions,

thoughts and feelings. To me it seemed as if we had not

really existed, or only half existed, because we could
not imaginatively realize ourselves and communicate to
the world, because we had used works of imagination
to serve as handmaidens to some political ploy
Loyalty
Desire to escape
Restriction of beauty
Chaos
Empowerment
Faith vs doubt
Manipulation