“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen is an interesting story where two girls meet each other. Suzy is an American girl that has to teach Leah‚ a refugee that came out of a concentration camp how to speak English. At the beginning of the story‚ Suzy feels a little creeped out about Leah. As she was giving candy to the other refugees‚ she spotted Leah and looking at her. “She was just standing to one side‚ staring at me. After a minute I looked away. When I looked back‚ she was gone.”(1 Jane Yolen) Another
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story‚ “Suzy and Leah” are Suzy and Leah‚ Suzy was an American. She did not get along at first with Leah‚ a German born Jew who just moved to the united states. Leah did not like the way Suzy was treating her‚ saying “She treats me like a pet.” They eventually found a way to understand each other and treated them with respect. Suzy’s feelings changed once she read Leah’s diary‚ which helped her understand her better. At first‚ Suzy had a lot of questions and thought even more negatively of Leah‚ because
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“Suzy and Leah” One main character in Jane Yolen’s story “Suzy and Leah” are Leah‚ a German-born Jew. Leah is a refugee that is now living in an American camp. The only other girl she knows is Suzy‚ an American girl who comes to the shelter regularly. Suzy is the other main character; she is kind and friendly if she knows you. Eventually‚ the two girls find out that making relationships can take time. At the beginning of the story‚ they disliked each other. Leah doesn’t like how Suzy is giving
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Suzy and Leah The main characters in Jane Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah” are Suzy‚ an American who doesn’t realize how hard the Jews have it‚ and Leah‚ a Jew who moves to the United States to escape the Nazis. At the beginning of the article‚ Suzy believes that Jews are like animals. Leah sees Suzy trying to “help” the Jews by giving them food‚ but Leah believes that Suzy has a false smile As they get to know each other more‚ their opinions start to change. Until her mom explained it to her‚ Suzy never
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n the article‚ "Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen‚ Suzy Ann McCarthy‚ or the girl with the yellow hair‚ helped Leah Shoshana Hershkowitz‚ the girl with the dark braids. Suzy was helping with Leah English when she came to America as a refugee. This was important and helpful for Suzy to do this for Leah even if she didn’t think it was so important. Leah and Suzy weren’t close in the beginning. They didn’t understand each other so they didn’t really feel like they should be close or even talk unless they
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“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen are diary entries between August to October 1944 from Suzy and Leah. The two girls perspective of each other changes as time passes‚ along with their relationship. At the beginning of the story they two girls didn’t exactly get along. Suzy is an American citizen that is helping the refugees. But she gets stuck with this a mean girl named Leah. So Suzy’s writes mean about her things like “she is creepy” or “she’s as prickly as a porcupine. Which shortly after‚ Leah got
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Yolen’s “Suzy and Leah” is Leah‚ a german born Jew. Leah is a refugee living in a refugee camp in America. Leah writes in her diary and is practicing English every day to get better. So she can live in a new world and on a new land. At the beginning of the story Leah was in a refugee camp in America and saw this girl with yellow hair bring sweets and an orange fruit and she falsely smiled at the rest of the refugees her name is Suzy. Then at school‚ the teacher pairs Leah with Suzy‚ Leah wished that
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Synthesizing Essay The main characters in Jane Yolen’s story “ Suzy and Leah” are Leah‚ a refugee in America (also a German-born Jew)‚ and Suzy‚ an American girl. Some people just naturally don’t get along‚ but some don’t get along at first then the relationship changes by getting to know each other. Suzy had to learn a brutal truth to understand what some of the things meant in Leah’s diary like what yellow stars were and why Leah’s family members were killed. Eventually‚ the two became friends
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“Suzy and Leah” In "Suzy and Leah" by Jane Yolen‚ is about two girls who wrote different diaries. Leah is not from the U.S. but Suzy is. And we get to hear their feelings about each other through each diary. The feelings between Suzy and Leah were not so good in the beginning. What happened in the beginning was a girl named Leah and a girl named Suzy were not getting along very well. Suzy thought Leah was kinda creepy the way she was standing with her two dark braids and staring at her. Suzy
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story called “Suzy and Leah‚” by Jane Yolen. In the story Bronx Masquerade there are a variety of kids that all come together and these kids express themselves in poetry. Within this story‚ Grimes shows the difficulties their lives were. In the short story “Suzy and Leah” two characters come together even though they are opposites. A Jewish refugee named Leah comes to a different country then what she is used to. She came to America and she was scared until she met a girl named Suzy. Both of these
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