Summary:
After a ten hour train ride they reached their destination. However Sruli and the rest of the teenagers have not arrived yet. Elli becomes worried and tries to find them on the train but there is no luck, and she starts to think bad things, like what if the drunk men found them. All of a sudden she sees groups of boys bring in luggage, and sees that they have come back, and that they had to hide in the woods because the drunk men where in their path to getting to the train station and that is why they had to get on a latter train. When Elli goes home, she latter goes to a teaching seminary for all girls, and during her free time she works at a dressmaker shop.
Three months pass and they are still waiting for their papers from the American Embassy to arrive. They get news from their Uncle Abish that Bubi and her are able to go to America and go to school and this would act as an exceptional visa from them. However her mother did not have a way to get a visa to go work in America. So they made the choice to let Bubi go to America and Elli would stay with her mother until she got her visa. When Bubi left to America, and Elli said her good byes, she went back to her dormitory at school. The next day she has to go with her mother on a shopping trip, and brings along too little kids named Elka and Jerry. During the trip Elli loses Jerry, and starts running around looking for him, until she gets back home she finds out that after having a fight with Elka he went back home.
Near the end of May she takes her final exams and the results are that she is going to graduate. Also during the same time, history was made, they voted to make a Jewish state in Eretz Israel. When Elli heard of this news she ran to Michalovska street to join the crowd of people that were dancing and singing because of the good news. When she gets back to her dormitory a girl name Gina tells her of Haganah which is a secret Jewish army in Palestine, she considers it and after a couple of weeks she goes in for an interview. However she is sent back home because she is too young to be part of the army. When she gets back to her dormitory she gets good news, that she is being offered a job at the seminary to teach students older and younger than her, even though she is seventeen, still she takes the job.
Quote:
"Textiles stores, shoe stores, drug stores--- each has lost its individual character...All forms of advertisement have become a thing of the past. Color is gone. " (Jackson 147).
Reaction:
This quote reminded me of the novel The Giver because it was about a place that resembled a utopia. Meaning that everything and every one looked the same, and there was nothing that influenced people to rebel, or be creative. Like Elli described the city with no color, like in The Giver, the town did not consist of any color meaning that the citizens did not know what color is, or where they could find or see color. Even though it is not possible for a town or anything thing in life to loose its color or not color have. It is a very unique way to describe a place as having no color, because from that description I picture a black and white movie showing people just walking around and nothing really happening. It showed that the communist really had a big effect on the city, that it made things very depressing. It seemed as if people were scared or worried that the communist would cause dangerous riots, because it looks as if nothing else really mattered and all productions of advertisements and clothes just stopped immediately.
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