Missions

Sarah is a Jewish girl living in the holocaust of 1942. One night when police come to take their family away from their home, Sarah locks her brother in a closet to keep him safe. But, when she realizes that what she did, was basically murder him, she is determined to go back and save him. She has a mission, and that is to save her brother. Lily, on the other hand, is a little white girl, who lives in the town of Tiburon, South Carolina in 1964. In a freak accident, Lily basically murdered her mother as a toddler, and now the only family she has left is her abusive dad, T-ray. The emptiness of not having her mom there, consumes her.  Now Lily is left with one mission: to find out more about her mother. Sarah and Lily are from completely different backgrounds, and yet they are so similar. They both face the struggles of death and abuse.

Sarah and Lily both have to deal with the loss of a family member. Sarah loses her mom and her dad, and eventually her brother, and Lily loses her mother. This is what makes them so determined. Sarah was determined to find her brother, because she had already lost her parents, and if her brother dies, it’s all her fault. And Lily is determined to know more about her mother since she died when lily was young. Lily needs to know what her mother was really like, because she feels as f it will make her a better person. So, when death hits them both, neither of them were depressed and moped around, both of them picked themselves up, and finished what they had to do.

Not only did both of them finish their mission, but they both faced similar struggles along the way. Both girls were abused. Sarah, being in the holocaust was abused in the camps, and Lily, was abused by her alcoholic dad.  The physical and emotional pain the girls suffered was a lot to handle. At this point both of the girls keep going, and that is what I think, makes them so similar.

Throughout the whole trip the girls put themselves through they both kept the same steady, confident attitude. But, when the outcomes are different, things are put to a drastic change.  Lily, who had been looking for information about her mother’s past, had found her mother’s old friends, and the very place her mother used to live. And Sarah, who had wanted to save her brother, failed. Lily stayed with her mother’s old friends and grew up a happy little girl. But Sarah was never the same. She became depressed, and sad. So while one girls spirits were lifted higher, the other ones were being broken.

If Sarah had saved her brother, things would have turned out much differently. They both would have grown up with the same happy attitude, but since the outcomes were different, so were the personalities. Two girls had a mission, with the same character and determination, one came out victorious, and one didn’t. And that, is what made all of the difference.