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Literary Critique Letters from Rifka by Terron |
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The author of this book is Karen Hesse. The book “Letters from Rifka” is about a family of Russian Jews that is trying to make it across the sea to America where people are treated right. This novel meant a lot to me. It showed me how much Jews had to go through, for example Rifka and her family have to undress in front of guards to get past the Polish border. I think that this book is within the theme heroic adventures because during Rifka’s adventure she performs acts of heroism. She takes care of a baby with a disease called typhus that Rifka and her mother have previously had. She also took care of a Russian peasant and she outsmarted a pair of Russian soldiers along her journey. I would think that this book would be in the history section because they wrote this book from a real person’s memory. There was no resemblance between the book I read over the summer and this book. I would recommend this book to other 6th graders that are interested in reading books. I would recommend this book because it was very interesting to find out what torture Jewish people had to go through during the early 20th century and during World War II. If there were more books about this subject I would want to read them.
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