Hahna's Suitcase Character Analysis

Every story has some kind of conflict in which the characters of that story must overcome a certain conflict or many conflicts in order to reach a goal or mature as a person. The real people that are a part of the story of Hana’s suitcase must also face numerous conflicts throughout the story. One of the conflicts found in the story of Hana’s suitcase could be described as a character vs social world type of conflict. A character vs social world conflict occurs when the main character or other various characters from the story are prevented from or struggle to reach a goal due to social rule, custom, or policy from their world. In this case Hana, her brother George are prevented from having a normal childhood when Nazi Germany takes control of Czechoslovakia during World War II. During this time the Nazi’s made many rules and policies that kept Hana and George from doing what most other

Fumiko faced a lot of challenges when not only trying to find items from the Holocaust for small museum and then when trying to find out more about Hana. These challenges sometimes left her feeling disappointed and unsure about which steps she should take next. These unsure feelings and disappointment would have made Fumiko’s task even more difficult for her. In order to reach her goal, she had to push these feelings away and keep searching for answers. For example, when Fumiko was first trying to find artifacts for her museum “everyone turned her down, telling her that the objects they had so carefully preserved were far too precious to send to such a small museum, so far away. Fumiko wasn’t sure what to do next.” Fumiko also faced a discouraging problem when she came all the way to Terezin to find that there was no one to help her. “How could I be so stupid? She thought. What do I do now? As the sun beat down on her, a tear of frustration rolled down Fumiko’s