Sarah’s Key is a movie about a young jewish girl named Sarah Starzynski. At the beginning of the movie the Starznski’s were being forced out of their house by French police. She locked her brother Michele into a closet so that the officers could not get him. When the officer asks Sarah where her brother and dad were she had to quickly make up a lie and she told the officer that they are in the country because her brother was sick. The officers took Sarah and her mom and as they were getting onto the bus her dad showed up and tried to protect sarah and her mom. But they all got forced to go to processing.
As more and more time passes in the concentration camp she realizes it was a mistake to leave her brother behind. While in the camp, she meets a young girl and they both escape the camp with the help of one of the French officers. As she is trying to find her way back to Paris, Sarah’s friend becomes very sick. Sarah found a house with an older couple that, at first, reluctantly took them in. Sarah’s friend ended up dying because of illness. Sarah still traveled back to Paris with the couple that took her in. She ends up finding out her brother was dead and had been for a long time.
Sarah always wondered what had happened to her real mother and father after they became seperated at the concentration camp. Then Sarah met a guy by the name of Rainesworth and they decided to move to America to start a new life over there. They had a son named Ryan. Then when Ryan was nine years of age. Sarah committed suicide by driving her vehicle into on coming traffic, killing herself.
Julia a present day writer who talked, traveled to many places, and conneted the pieces she finds out that her father-in-law knew about Sarah and what had happened to her brother. He knew this because when he was a young boy, he lived in the Starzynski’s old apartment and he was there the day Sarah showed up and found her brother dead. Finding all this information out, Julia still was not satisfied. She wanted to found out where Sarah was today and how she was doing. She ends up finding letters written from the family that took Sarah in. But, from the sounds of things from the people that took her in), Sarah was very, very sad and still lived with the guilt of her brother’s death. Sarah actually left and we end up finding out that she moved to New York and makes a life of herself with a husband and son. What Julia finds out though is that Sarah was still so sad inside and ends up purposely crashing into a semi and died. But as Julia tried to talk to Ryan he did not want to believe her at all. So he went to see his dying father, whom told him everything and even gave him letters and diaries of her.
This movie was sad. The saddest things were finding Michele dead and Sarah Committing suicide. It was good that Ryan figured out everything about his mother, Sarah and everything that she went through. It was a good movie!
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Great summary Michael!