While I have not yet read The Red Ribbon, I am definitely interested in continuing my read.
Just recently I finished The Tattooist of Auschwitz and I think it might be one of the most moving books I've read about the Holocaust yet. The Red Ribbon appears to be an interesting look into the life of the young girls living at the camps and the goings on of their daily lives. I think the important thing when writing fiction that involves the Holocaust, it should never be used for entertainment value but instead to educate readers on the conditions and the treatments the prisoners endured. The Red Ribbon, it seems, does not use the subject matter for entertainment, but rather for education.
Some passages I pulled out that interested me:
"Out in the wild, if Marta was an animal she’d be a shark, and we’d all be little fish in her ocean. Little fish get eaten. Sharks survive. It was better to be predator than prey – right?" pg 16/17
"Hearing a name instead of a number was like pulling on
a ribbon bow to unwrap a precious gift." pg 20
Just recently I finished The Tattooist of Auschwitz and I think it might be one of the most moving books I've read about the Holocaust yet. The Red Ribbon appears to be an interesting look into the life of the young girls living at the camps and the goings on of their daily lives. I think the important thing when writing fiction that involves the Holocaust, it should never be used for entertainment value but instead to educate readers on the conditions and the treatments the prisoners endured. The Red Ribbon, it seems, does not use the subject matter for entertainment, but rather for education.
Some passages I pulled out that interested me:
"Out in the wild, if Marta was an animal she’d be a shark, and we’d all be little fish in her ocean. Little fish get eaten. Sharks survive. It was better to be predator than prey – right?" pg 16/17
"Hearing a name instead of a number was like pulling on
a ribbon bow to unwrap a precious gift." pg 20