A Father's Promise Analysis

Just before World War II Rudi Kaplan starts learning a very important lesson. A Father’s Promise is a historical fiction written by Donnalynn Hess. The setting is in 1939 right before World War II in Warsaw, Poland. The protagonists are Rudi Kaplan; a Jewish Christian with a Swedish appearance as his mother was Swedish. Jakob Kaplan, Rudi’s father, who was faithful, kind and very helpful in many ways. Rudi’s best friend, Salek Serdusek, his father, Eryk, and Salek’s mother, Sara were the Kaplans closes friends. Ingrid, was a little girl that doesn’t speak, and who Rudi named after his mother. There’s also Oscar, a resistance fighter who was brave, slightly prideful and warm-hearted. The last few protagonists are the Kaminsky family, who lived in an apartment building, below the Kaplans, Anna, who is patient, brave and hygienic, and Josef. The two main antagonists are Frank and Mende who are both German soldiers. Given the dangerous conditions for Jews in Warsaw, Rudi's Jewish father believes God has told him to send his son out of the city. Rudi will need to learn to live on his own and in the process will help others during the war. I think that the main theme of A Father’s Promise, is that people are better than things. An example of

If you like books about survival, fiction and history then I’m almost certain that you’ll like this. I think that this book would appeal to readers of the age of nine and older because, for one thing, little kids wouldn’t understand the situation or the seriousness of what’s going on at this time period. In spite of not liking history I do like how the author has it in a third-person view, but at the same time it’s almost like first-person, because the story follows Rudi and always stays with him without switching to other people’s point of