When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Essay

The novel “When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit” by Judith Kerr is a compelling story about a 10 year old Jewish girl who is forced out of her home country, Germany, due to Nazi Germany in 1933. Luckily for Anna and her family, her father takes precautionary actions before the elections in order to not take any chances, so they move to Switzerland then Paris. However for Anna being only 10 years old she does not fully understand the depth of this sudden change of lifestyle. It was most intriguing how her juvenility influenced how Anna dealt with this change and how she adapted to this new life.

It was fascinating the way a child of Anna’s age reacts to these events and while the things that were happening around her were very serious, Anna’s worries and thoughts were elsewhere. “She was much too interested in school than to worry about what was going on at home.”
This shows the innocence of a child as when Anna found out they would not be returning to Germany due to Adolf Hitler winning the elections,
In the teenage years, friendships are much more complicated and there is a lot more drama and complexity involved whereas children have a unique way of living in the present all the time, not worrying much about the future or the depth of what is happening. This is due to the innocence and purity of childhood, where they do not overthink or overanalyze a situation. Children react without thinking, without questioning why or how something happened. This allows them to live carefree and content with their surroundings. It is fascinating the way this novel portrays childhood as it showed that although their situation was not the easiest, the children did not let that get in their way to have fun and