When We Re Far Apart Analysis

The Struggles of the Lost and Found In the captivating story of While We’re Far Apart by Lynn Austin, millions of people were affected by World War II, not unlike the real problems people had to deal with at this time: Jews were killed and persecuted in horrible ways and evidence of the war was everywhere. The main characters lived during this time period. One was a Jew whose entire family was either dead or missing in Hungary, one was a woman who hoped to get a second chance at love, and finally two were children whose father (that the woman was in love with) enlisted for the war.
Jacob Mendel, the Jewish main character, had family in Nazi-occupied Hungary. He had no idea if his son, his daughter-in-law, or his grandchild were alive, and if they were, they were either in hiding or had been captured. His problems and struggles in this book were very similar to Anne Frank’s, a young girl who lived during World War II. Anne Frank was also a Jew who went into hiding when the Nazis invaded her country. However, the Nazis discovered their hiding place and sent them into a concentration camp, just as the Nazis did to Jacob’s family. Only she was not able to escape. Corrie Ten Boom and her entire family also were taken to concentration camps for helping Jews, like Jacob’s family, except Jacob’s family
She volunteered to watch and keep his children for him as he went to war in the hopes that he would finally notice and love her in return. Unfortunately, this never happened. She instead grew to love a different man from the army who was ripped away from her several times when he went into battle. Thousands, even millions, of people had to watch their loved ones march into combat just like Penny. Luckily for her, the man she grew to love as well as Eddie were never killed. However, others were not so