By: Jessie Liang
Name?The War That Saved My Life, a 2016 Newberry honored book by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley is one of the most encouraging books for children with no light of hope in the darkness of fate that wishes to be loved that I have ever read. Come and explore this absolute tear-jerker!
Ada, a 11-year-old disabled girl and her little brother Jamie are two poor children who lived during World War 2 that are filled with people that will evacuate anywhere to get away from the bombs. Mam, the children’s wicked and harsh mother that beats them refuses to spend any money on sending them away to a place safe from war. Fortunately for Ada and her brother, they managed to sneak away on the train to a village in Kent. Soon they get picked up by a woman named Susan Smith who cares for them, but Ada never lets her guard down, even after several weeks, of living together in the new “posh” environment, or what Ada and Jamie says. But Mam takes the kids back to London and treats them harshly until Ada stands up to Mam and leaves home for good with Jamie and returns to Susan.
THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE demonstrates how brave Ada was at age eleven. She survived bombs, beatings, and suddenly living with strangers away from her so-called “home” daily. This reflects how much children in the oldern days had to go through: harsh and raw life, where nowadays kids just slide though their “premade lives” that was made for them by their parent’s hard work and still unsatisfied by what they have. Why is this happening, children? Why is this happening, children nowadays are not grateful because they have all the resources that they need which doesn’t make them work as hard as the older days It makes them think that all their parents hard work it makes them think that all their parents hard work is there for them and will always be , and that is not true! You must work hard for accomplishments!
But overall, I really hope that this could encourage children that read this book to be more grateful and happy that you’re living and a rather peaceful century where you don’t have to count the stages of hunger that you are going through, but same message, not all parents are loving and deserving : “All kids deserve parents, but not all parents deserve kids.”