Maia Wojciechowska

In chapter one the main character Maia Wojciechowska wakes up from a dream to the sound of a plane. She thinks it is her father’s, but when she runs outside with her new puppy to see, Maia finds out that it is not her father’s plane. The plane flies over parallel with her running dog. The dog jumped up for a brief moment, then there was a sound and her puppy never got up again (the puppy was shot). She started hating everything.

Afterwards, a car pulled up. The driver was a friend of Maia’s mother, whom Maia did not like. Maia didn’t want to go with them, but she didn’t protest because if she did she might cry. Ever since she could remember, when Maia got hurt she had to do something mean.

The driver took Maia, her mother, Krzys, and Zbyszek to a sixth-floor apartment in Warsaw. Through the window she could see fires, people running, pile-ups of vehicles. The driver left them locked in the room. A bomb went off and her mother was getting worried. The driver came back and told them he saw their father and they were to take a train, go through Rumania to France, where they were to join their father (husband for the mother). Maia’s father was always gone and it made her very sad. She cried about that a lot.

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Maia felt that everything was all right. The French kids patched the tires and painted over the army khaki with black paint. Most of it was uneatable, but she still cooked. Maia got separated from her family and was walking up and down the train looking for her mother.

Maia, her mom, and her brothers waited for the truck to come.

Chapter 4

The family was in Les Sables-d’Olonne, midway from the tip of Brittany to the Spanish border. They arrived and saw their father and hugged.

The kids attacked the trucks by sticking knives in the tires, etc.

Chapter 2

They arrived at the railroad station. And the officers would talk to her, but she wouldn’t talk back. He wrote a letter to them telling them that the border to Spain was impossible.

One day there was a sign that said no Jews and no Negroes are allowed on the beach. Zbyszek seemed so distant suddenly on that train to Bordeaux. From then on Maia and Zbyszek took and oath that they would never talk to the French so long as the war lasted. They went for a walk and Maria told Maia what happened to her husband, and a little about her life.

Approximate Word count = 3616
Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page double spaced)

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