Dark Room Essay

The author of the Dark Room ( Rachel Seiffert) made Lore, who is a young girl that has to walk crossways germany during world state of war 2 with her siblings, a memorable character by showing what she is like, what Lores mission was and the theme of the novel during world war 2. The author of the Dark Room (Rachel Sieffert) used Lores Characteristics to make her memorable. Lore is very convertible to life during World War II. Lore lots has to improvise by finding other ways of doing things for example when Lore tries to keep the children clean, she uses paraffin with a tub to try and get rid of nits in the childrens hair.Food was also scarce so she had to make reasonable portions with the food she gathered for herself and her siblings Lore divides the rest of the bread between them. Thus shows how adaptable she is during the tough living situations and shortages of World War 2. Lore is also very brave this is shown when Jochen was shot by the Russian soldiers A gun is fired on ce again The first one pulls Jochen shirt towards him. When this happened in the novel Lore did not cry or run off after the Russian soldiers as they viciously killed Johan, this shows the reader how brave Lore is by leaving her own little brother in the paddock.This shows the authors intention to get the reader to feel for Lore as she must make tough decisions about food, which in todays society is often taken for granted. The author of the dark room, Rachel Sieffert used Lores mission to make her a memorable character. In the novel Lore needs to walk to her omas come forward, making her way from southern Germany to a place near Hamburg which is approximately six hundred kilometres, she not only has to do it by herself she also has to walk all the way with her siblings with a lack of trains in operation(p) The man in the office says she will need to get permission from the americans he last offical transport went over two weeks ago.. The station is tumble-down. The author makes it memorable as it is such a long way to walk, especially in war times where conditions were extremely tough which is very unusual, evening in todays society, thus is how Rachel Sieffert makes Lore memorable by giving her a mission of walking such a large distance.