Someone Named Eva By Joan M. Wolf: Literary Analysis

In the novel, Someone Named Eva, by Joan M. Wolf is a historic fictional novel about a girl living in Lidice, Czechoslovakia during WWII. The author included many factual events that happened during WWII. However, there were alterations added in the novel to enhance the story. While Joan Wolf was writing the historical novel they included many factual events to create a realistic plot. The author included rationing of sugar and money, how Nazis stormed into Lidice, even how children were examined for the Aryan race. She even went as far as to include the tools that the scientists would use when testing the children, such as colors of eyes, forehead measuring tool, and a tool that measures your nose. The major detail that impacted the plot was how the author included the “Germanization” process into her writing. On page 49 the text states, “I shook my head, shivering at the sound of this strange new word echoing in the room. My name was not Eva. Ruzha’s name was not Franziska. My name was Milada, the name of the grandmother and her mother before her.” A historical account Stolen: The story of a Polish child ‘Germanized’ by the Nazis, says that two girls were taken to, “... a German-run convent in Kalisz, where the ‘Germanization’ began - a combination of intense German - language lessons and brutal punishments.” The author included the “Germanization” process helped the reader understand how young children who weren’t even Jewish were stripped of the names and identity. They were beaten

These children were expected to be proper Nazi children. The children were brainwashed to forget who they were before and only know the new