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In
Another Time
by Jillian Cantor is a love story. Hanna Ginsburg is in love
with Max Beissinger but also is in love with her music. She
has hopes and desires to become a concert violinist. This
story shows how the rise of Hitler affected people’s
hopes and dreams.
The role of music plays an important part. "I hope readers
see that the book is also about how music helps during trying
times. There is a need for music. I think there is a love
story between Hanna and her violin, how music saved her during
the toughest of times. The book delves into Hanna's trauma
and has people wondering if she can achieve her dream. Hanna's
boyfriend Max said that music was her fire. When Hannah did
not have her music, she did not feel alive. I read this memoir
by a violinist prodigy that made me think how the violin instrument
was such a strong part of her life. I put in this quote by
Hannah, "The violin began to consume me, for a little
while the nightmares ceased and I even began sleeping through
the night." The violin keeps her feeling alive and happy.
I think creative people have passions that consume them, whether
it is a concert violinist, a dancer, or a writer."
Even though Max and Hanna have fallen in love, they cannot
marry because in Hitler's Germany marriage between a Jew and
Christian has been outlawed. Alternating between the 1930s
and 1950s the story shows the despair, but also the fate Jews
faced during that era. Max's quest is to save Hanna, and he
intends to use something he discovered in his late father's
journal to do it. The mystery surrounds why he vanishes, often
for months at a time, and how at the close of the war Hanna
awakens in a field and is unable to remember the events of
the past ten years. Relocating to London with her older sister,
Hanna wonders what happened to Max and decides to lose herself
in her other love, playing the violin. Her goal is to achieve
her dream and locate Max.
This story is both haunting and compelling yet leaves readers
with a sense of optimism. It is a reminder of how horrible,
and atrocious Hitler's regime was, and yet hope arose from
the ashes.
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