Between Shades Of Gray Analysis

Between Shades of Gray was a phenomenal book in a different perspective of World War ll. The story is told by Lina, a girl during the devastating hardships she, her mother, and brother experience when they get captured and taken to a Soviet prison camp. She takes a long journey cramped in a train car with the other prisoners, many that don’t survive. When she and the survivors make it to the camp they face struggles like no other such as starvation, harsh winters, and illnesses. She also must be away from her father because he and other men are taken to another prison camp somewhere in Siberia. This book gives the outlook on someone who is confident in Hitler to do good. She believes that he can push the Soviets out of her country, and she can come home.

I think there is an infinite amount of meanings that can be derived from this text. So there is never really a true, correct meaning to it. There are meanings that the reader themselves see and that is all that matters. Books are meant for us readers to enjoy and if we were forced to see only one meaning of the book, then it would be boring. There would never be anything to discuss and there would be no point to the book. Books are meant to strike controversy and stir ideas. If everyone had the same idea, there would be no controversy and no new ideas added to the plate. There are many that would say that the meaning that the author intended is the correct meaning but I don’t believe that is true. The book is the author’s, but when they put it out there, it becomes the reader’s as well. We are entitled to the book almost as much as they are. We have our own thoughts and opinions about the book and we the readers discuss what the text is about. Our discussions change the meaning of the book over and over again. as the meaning constantly changes there is never a true, set in stone meaning for the