Along the way they find people to share their misfortunes with‚ trust and confide in‚ and ultimately renew a sense of love and hope which was otherwise lost without the ties of support binding them together. Published in March 2011‚ Between Shades of Gray is an awe inspiring novel brimming with a continuous sense of survival‚ love‚ and hope in times of great darkness and despair‚ which produces a pivotal dynamic to an otherwise grim tale. The author‚ Ruta Sepetys‚ used extensive research
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We as human beings are not always capable of overcoming these abuses‚ like ones in the novel by Ruta Sepetys‚ called Between Shades of Gray. All human beings should have every human right‚ but some people don’t have their rights. Like the right to be equal before the law and to be entitled without discrimination to equal protection of the law. In the novel‚ Between Shades of Gray‚ the NKVD discriminated against the prisoner because they were from a different country than them. In the novel a NKVD
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minds gravitate to a new way of thinking; to be optimistic or pessimistic. They either think the worst is coming and have already accepted their fate‚ or they pray for the best and try to sustain hope and keep others optimistic. In the novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys‚ Lina Vilkas‚ a young woman living in Lithuania as Stalin‚ takes over‚ is set on a harrowing journey. Lina and family are forced to travel thousands of miles to a work camp by no fault of their own. During life‚ people experience
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other subjects this year. In this year’s course‚ I have learned a lot about people and events in history that I had no knowledge of beforehand. Lessons on Joseph Stalin‚ Julius Caesar‚ and many more have educated me beyond belief. I feel that “Between Shades of Gray” is a book that will live in my memory forever. The terrible stories based on real events of what happened to so many people are things I will not be able to forget. In my future schooling‚ I hope to learn more about virtually voiceless events
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However‚ sometimes this smudge of darkness is fed by unimaginably large amounts of hatred and ignorance. Eventually‚ the heart loses any sense of humanity and shrivels into a carcass of its original self‚ both black and toxic. In the novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys this nature of evil is evident through the characters of Komorov‚ the NKVD officers‚ and Ivanov. Within the novel‚ at various moments‚ each character displays the human capacity for evil through their treatment of the prisoners
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Shades of Gray Characters Will Page - Will is a twelve year old boy who has brown hair and eyes. He is pretty clever and tries to outwit others. He is very loyal and compassionate. He is very sad and angry. He had lost his whole family due to the Civil War. He is the last surviving member of his immediate family as a result he comes to live with his aunt and uncle. Meg Jones - Meg is a ten year old girl and she is Will’s cousin. Meg is very curious and she is always asking questions
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Reid Jackson Dr. Kathryn Williams A Different Shade of Gray The basis for chosing this study over middle age people in the inner city was simply because I have found myself living amongst this population and have personal connections with those who have overcome hardships‚ and those who are trying to dig themselves out of the hole. The area in which I live in is poverty stricken‚ filled with broken homes as well as broken people who are feeling the reprocutions of past generations. These individuals
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Taken in her nightgown‚ Lina Vilkas‚ a young and innocent 15 year old girl‚ was abducted from her home‚ along with her mother and brother. In the book‚ Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepety’s‚ her and her family were forced out of their home and taken by the Soviets during the Holocaust and sent to prison camps where they were forced to work like slaves‚ along with many others. All Lina wants is to see her father‚ who was also taken earlier‚ and reunite their family. Suffering for months at a time
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Union invaded into Lithuania in 1940(Soviet Occupation). This selfish act left families like Lina Vilkas’s to be captured helplessly a year later. Ruta Sepetys’s book‚ Between Shades of Gray relates the journey and survival of Lina’s family during over a year and half of being in captivity by the Soviets. As I read Between Shades of Gray‚ I learned that people will show great fortitude in circumstances unimaginable to normal civilians. Andrius’ mom really shows fortitude throughout the story while they
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Study Between Fifty Shades of Gray is set in 1941 in Lithuania and Siberia. It’s about fifteen year old Lina‚ her brother and her mother who were prisoners of the holocaust. The book focused on the struggles they went through‚ They took risks for friends and each other‚ Lina also met someone who changed her life‚ Andrius who gave his ration of food to Lina’s brother so he can survive. He showed her what his mother and him sacrificed to live a normal life in the future. The theme of Between Shades
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