Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

          The book Sarah's Key had two main protagonists. The story shows the life of a young girl named Sarah, and an older woman named Julia. The two stories connect when Julia decides that he wants to find out more about Sarah's story. The story revolves around the holocaust. While I was reading the book, I focused on the archetypes. I focused on the feminist, shadow, and the herald because that is really what the story revolves around.

          The feminist in my story was Sarah for a number of reasons. One example of how Sarah is the feminist in this story is when she put her brother in the closet. When the French police came to her door to take the family, she didn't want them to take her brother because she already had to lie to them about him not being present. Because they had to lie about him not being there, Sarah had to hide her brother in a closet for his well being. While he did die in the end because the family never came back home to help him survive, she did think it was the right thing to do. Another example of how Sarah is the feminist is that, she tried to save her family. When the police came to their house, she wanted to save her brother and dad because they were the only ones that were not present. She and her mom were, and therefore were more in danger. Also, she wanted to run away so that she could be safe and save herself.

          The herald in the book Sarah's Key, are the police that take Sarah and her family  in the beginning of the book. They were the ones who broke her family apart because of the holocaust and brought the family to a camp where the conditions were very bad. Sarah's family thought that the french police were trust worthy, but those were the people that broke her and her family apart.
          The shadow in my book was Julia's husband Bertrend. He was the shadow because of the negative relation ship he had with his wife. Towards the middle of the book, they started to get further apart from each other. Julia had a lot of miss carriages during her lifetime. One day she found out that she was pregnant, and when she told her husband, he told her to get an abortion. Considering she was trying to have a baby for so long, that made her feel very bad, and put a negative impact on her. In addition he is considered the shadow because when Julia was trying to find out more about Sarah's story he discouraged her.

          All in all, the book Sarah's Key was very good. i did think that the writing was not the best that I have ever read. The archetypes though were very clear and I think it allowed for a better understanding of the book.