Imagine being stuck in a pitch black train with nothing and no one you know, not knowing where you’re going or where you are. Each day you and everyone else struggle to get food and water. In the novel “Between Shades of Gray”, by Ruta Sepetys, the main character Lina Vilkas faces many challenges and has to have bravery for her and her family.
To begin with the NKVD took a cluster of people from all over the US, and took everyone that was alive to Lithuanian. From the day they got there they started working, from fall to spring and didn’t have a lot of warm clothing throughout the winter. So Lina, her mom, and her brother Jonas along with everyone else had to deal with little food, water, shelter, and warmth as the arctic weeks turned into months. Therefore with everything they all had to go through with they must of had a lot of bravery.
In addition Andrius and his mother have to do many things for and with the NKVD to help everyone else even if they don’t like it. Unlike everybody else these two get to stay and sleep in the building in which the NKVD people stay. Although since Andrius stayed with those people he would sneak the leftover food over to Lina, in which she would share with the rest of the people. Mrs. Arvydas and her son Andrius have bravery because of everything that they have done to help protect everyone else.
While reading this book it reminded me of the book “Deadly Little Games”. In this book the main character Camelia got locked in a tiny room in the middle of the woods. This room was mysteriously black and had no windows, she didn’t know what was going on. So Camelia had to of had major bravery, since she was entirely unaware for where she was and what was going on.
Throughout the book the main character had to have plenty of bravery with everything going on. In “Between Shades of Gray” Lina has to have bravery for herself along for her family. If something like this would happened to me I probably wouldn’t of been so brave.
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