Girl At War

In 2011, the average child with both biological parents living and well tested 30 out 36 for life satisfaction. In simpler terms, 13,469 kids took a test and the ones who had both living parents got an 83% on how happy they were with their life. That means that more than half of the average child population is content or happy with their current life status. In the books we have read in class, each author attempts to search for sympathy in the reader to make the novel they’ve written something readers appreciate. Sara Nović, author of Girl at War, creates more of a sympathy-searching plot than Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief, by using characterization and emphasis on tragedy.
At age 9 or 10 it’s pretty tough to be unhappy with the endless
The different family structures and relationships are essential to the story because they help to tell the story of Ren’s character and the change of scenery. At the beginning of the story, Ren’s closest thing to family would be his friends. As he goes through the panic of being judged in a line he thinks that these are “his only friends, and he did not want to lose them” (Tinti 8). The friends that Ren has at the orphanage are essentially his true family in the novel because once he leaves them he says that what he wants most in the world is “a family” and later on they find their way back to Ren (53). Of course, Ren is with his biological family or one of the members, his father. Even though Ren is with someone related to him, he doesn’t consider Benjamin family because he is unreliable and only leaves him once things don’t go his way. Ren is left with the people that are truly the most family he will ever have, Brom, Itchy, and Mrs.
Rahela was an infant at the time of the war and did not experience the same things that Ana did. For example, when the Croatian really started going, the police put sandbags up to block the city off. Ana and her friends climbed it because it was “so tall and alluring it might as well have been a jungle gym” and they made it their new playground (Nović 50). Once the war amplified, Rahela was sent to America through MediMission. After Ana’s parents were killed, Petar sent her to America to be joined with her newly renamed sister, Rachel. She had new American parents named “Jack and Laura” and she would call them that despite Rachel referring to them as “Mommy and Daddy in her high-pitched toddler voice” (124). Rachel had no memories of her parents because she was merely an infant when she was under their care. Ana, however, experienced 10 of her major developing years with them and watched them die. Rachel lacked an experience of the war and her character stayed in the same baby state that Ana originally viewed her