Analysis Of The Nightingale By Kristin Hannah

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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah begins in 1995 with an unnamed elderly woman who remembers the story of Vianne and Isabelle. At the start of World War II in France, headstrong, impetuous Isabelle decides to help the French resistance by leading downed Allied airmen over the Pyrenees Mountains back to safety. Then, the resistance names her “Nightingale” to protect her true identity and their own, but Nazis eventually send her to a concentration camp. In conclusion, the elderly woman revealed as Isabelle’s older sister, Vianne, shares Isabelle’s heroic story at an event commemorating people who aided France during German occupation. After her speech, the son of an old family friend greets Vianne. He thanks her for her courage and strength to

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