The two main characters in my book were Hilary and Chana. Hilary is a girl who lives in our time. But Chana is a girl who lives in the times during the holocaust. Hilary is sixteen, has blonde hair and blue eyes. She is apart of a neo- Nazi gang in her town and hates all Jewish people. Chana is a Jewish girl during the holocaust, but the book does not describe her appearance. She is about thirteen in the beginning of the book but by the end of the book is nineteen. Hilary is very depressed with her life. She hates almost everything and everyone who is not in her Nazi gang. She became depressed and mean after her father died when his office building burnt down. Hilary was about five years old when her father died. Hilary thinks that his building burnt down because the boss of her father [which is Jewish] was too cheap to hire better security. Hilary is stuck to live with her mother who she does not get along with. As Hilary gets older she meets her boyfriend Brad. Brad gets her into the neo- Nazi gang, where they do chants to Hitler and hurt Jewish teenagers. One
This book was an emotional roller coaster. Where one minute a girl is sick in the hospital and the next another girl is working constantly in a concentration camp where she hardly gets any food and when she does it is a soup that has insects, socks, underwear and many other horrible things floating in it. When Chana first goes to Auschwitz she has to take a shower nude with hundreds of other women. Then they shave her head and give her clothes that are much to big for her and don’t keep her warm. There Chana works for two years which is a very difficult thing because most people who went there did not survive a week. After a little more then two years of being there Chana faints because she is so hungry. The climax of the story is when she wakes up from fainting and she is in the hospital with her grandmother and is confused. The resolution of the story is when you realize she fainted on the day the Germans lost the war and is set free with her grandmother to go back home. Hilary during all of this is growing as a loving person and learning not to be as hateful. Hilary understands how awful it was to