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Vianne the nightingale5/18/2023 ![]() ![]() Vianne takes the boy to the convent and asks Marie-Therese to hide him in the orphanage. Letting you French govern yourselves was a joke” (419). Von Richter orders her to take him to the orphanage before announcing that he will leave the next day: “We are occupying the rest of France tomorrow. Von Richter emerges from the house, and Vianne-knowing his fear of disease-claims the boy is the son of a friend who died of tuberculosis. Vianne and the boys hurry home, where she tells her terrified daughter that they “have to try to save him or are as bad as are” (418). Vianne can be seen as a less heroic character than her sister Isabelle (the titular nightingale) because she dissuades her sister's rebellious activities, hoping to keep everyone safe. One woman asks Vianne to take her 3-year-old son before being forced away, and she does. ![]() When she reaches the square, she sees a crowd of Jewish women and children being gathered for deportation. ![]() In November, Vianne takes Ari into town to spread the false story of his origins around she notices several barricaded streets and an unusual number of soldiers and policemen. ![]()
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