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Kathy Kacer
- Reading
- Consider reading together and pausing to talk about the contrast between welcome and prejudice, or about any questions the wartime setting raises. The story’s ending and level of detail are not established here.
- Themes
- Refuge and belonging: Margit and her mother settle in Toronto after escaping Nazi terror; Margit encounters both kindness and people who question whether she belongs. The overview sets welcome beside exclusion, but does not establish how the story ultimately evaluates or resolves Margit's sense of belonging.
- Persecution and family separation: Margit and her mother flee Nazi persecution; her father was taken away, and they have received no news of him. The family’s separation and uncertainty are central circumstances, but the overview does not reveal the degree of detail or the story’s resolution.
- Worth knowing
- The story involves escape from Nazi persecution, antisemitism, refugee displacement and uncertainty about a parent taken away. These serious wartime themes may merit consideration in light of a reader’s circumstances.