1. Sarah’s Key
Tatiana de Rosnay

2. Book Trailer

3. Main Characters Sarah Starzynski Julia Jarmond 10-year-old Jewish girl
Protects her family
Very brave, proud child
Julia Jarmond
Born in America, living in Paris
American journalist
Discoverer of Sarah Starzynski’s story
Julia

4. Sarah’s Key Sarah’s Key is written with parallel plots.
A parallel plot is when the writer weaves two or more plots that are usually linked by a common characters and a similar plot.

5. Plot 1
July 1942
The first plot follows the Starzynski family. The French police, under orders of the Nazis, arrested Sarah and parents. They were sent to a concentration camp.
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6. Plot 2
May 2002
The second plot follows Julia Jarmond. She is American but is living in Paris with her husband, Bertrand.

7. Conflict/Resolution Sarah Starzynski Julia Jarmond
2 main conflicts (due to parallel plots)
Julia’s struggle to discover Sarah’s story
Julia and Bertrand’s relationship & the baby
Sarah Starzynski
Julia
Jarmond

8. Themes
The past affects the future.
Escape from the past and reality.

9. Interview with the Author

10. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Concierge
a person who has charge of the entrance of a building

11. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Concierge
a person who has charge of the entrance of a building
Implicitly
indicated (implied) rather than expressively stated

12. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Concierge
a person who has charge of the entrance of a building
Implicitly
indicated (implied) rather than expressively stated Disdain
to look up upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn

13. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Ameliorate
to make or become better, more bearable or satisfactory, improve

14. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Ameliorate
to make or become better, more bearable or satisfactory, improve
Complicity
The state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrong doing.

15. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Ameliorate
to make or become better, more bearable or satisfactory, improve Complicity
The state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrong doing.
Contemptuous
Showing or expressing disdain; scornful

16. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Façade
a superficial appearance or illusion

17. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Façade
a superficial appearance or illusion
Trifle
a thing of little value

18. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Façade
a superficial appearance or illusion
Trifle
a thing of little value
Solemnity
state of being grave, sober, mirthless

19. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Scrutinized
to examine in detail with careful or critical attentions

20. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Scrutinized
to examine in detail with careful or critical attentions
Deciphered
to discover the meaning of

21. Sarah’s Key Vocabulary
Scrutinized
to examine in detail with careful or critical attentions
Deciphered
to discover the meaning of
Turbulent
being in a state if agitation

22. Ashen
extremely pale; drained of color

23. Ashen
extremely pale; drained of color
Indefatigable
incapable of tire out; out of yielding to fatigue

24. Ashen
extremely pale; drained of color
Indefatigable
incapable of tire out; out of yielding to fatigue
Flaccid
lacking force

25. Sardonically
disdainfully or bitterly sneering ironic; sarcastic

26. Sardonically
disdainfully or bitterly sneering ironic; sarcastic
Ambiguous
open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations