SuitabookThe choice
Kathy Clark
- Reading
- Consider reading together in stages, pausing after Jakob’s assumptions about Ivan and again after the later revelation. Let the reader decide how much to discuss the Holocaust material as it arises.
- Themes
- Jakob’s view of Ivan: Jakob comes to believe Ivan has abandoned him, then learns that Ivan made a choice of his own. The plot’s later revelation makes Jakob’s understanding of his friend a key part of the story’s changing perspective.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes danger to a Jewish family, imprisonment in Auschwitz and a character’s desire for revenge.