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    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Suzy and Leah"
    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Suzy and Leah"
    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Suzy and Leah"
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    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Suzy and Leah"

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    A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Suzy and Leah," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535834438
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      A Study Guide for Jane Yolen's "Suzy and Leah" - Gale

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      Suzy and Leah

      Jane Yolen

      1993

      Introduction

      Jane Yolen's short story Suzy and Leah brings the reader into the lives of two oppositional characters living in the United States during World War II. Suzy is an American citizen far removed from the front line terror of the war. Leah is a Jewish refugee living behind a barbed wire fence in a camp near Suzy's home. Leah has witnessed some of the worst horrors of the war. She has lost her mother and young brother. Both died while incarcerated in a German concentration camp.

      Neither girl understands the other when they first meet. Their life experiences have little in common. Suzy laughs at Leah's attempts to pronounce English words, unaware that the young German girl speaks three other languages. Leah is leery of Suzy's generosity. She waits for Suzy to turn on her, just as the Nazis have turned on her German Jewish family.

      When the girls are pushed together inside the classroom, they become curious about one another, but barriers continue to hinder their strained relationship. Then one day Leah does not show up for class. Suzy wonders what is wrong with her. In the process of searching for her, Suzy discovers Leah's personal journal and learns of Leah's background. Suzy is shocked that the hardships Leah has been through could even exist. The theme of the cruelties of the Holocaust is one that has appeared several times in Yolen's writing. In Suzy and Leah the author makes the Holocaust very personal as readers are privy to the private writings of one of the Holocaust's victims.

      Suzy and Leah was first published in American Girl magazine in 1993, which is now out of print. But the short story can be found in the Prentice Hall textbook Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: Bronze Level (2002).

      Author Biography

      Yolen was born on February 11, 1939, in New York City. Her mother, Isabel, was a psychiatric social worker and writer, and her father, Will, was a journalist and movie publicist. Yolen started writing at a young age, and along with her younger brother, Steve, she published a community newspaper before she entered high school. She attended Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she later became the president of the college's Press Board, won several writing awards, and

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