The second half of the book became very hard for me to read because of all of the tragedy that was going on. With her family already gone her relationship with Ilse becomes the only close relationship Gerda has. When Ilse dies she has no one left but she still manages to move on. One thing I admire about Gerda is endurance. Her ability to keep moving on despite her hardship is a trait that I aspire to have. Most of the time when things get too hard for people they don’t have the spark left in them to keep trying. Even though Gretchen doesn’t have much reason left to live she keeps on trying and doesn’t let herself die, one because of her endurance, and two, because of the promise she made to her father. When the book is finally at its end and Gerda meets Kurt it made me happy to know that at the end something good did happen to her.
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