Suzy And Leah By Jane Yolen Analysis
The main characters in Jane Yolen’s 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 of the way she wrote about her. She had to ask her mother about many of things in her diary in which she did not understand. Then, she realized what tragic events Leah had went through in Germany, and felt