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Salt to the Sea Get hundreds more LitCharts at www.litcharts.com Salt to the Sea Shades of Gray. In both books, Sepetys sought to tell the “lost INTRODUCTION stories” of people who had been unable to tell their own stories about the horrors and complexities of war. also BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF RUTA SEPETYS Salt to the Sea shares many similarities withother young adult novels dealing The daughter of a Lithuanian refugee, Sepetys was born in with WWII and the Holocaust, specifically those that focus on Detroit, Michigan and spent her childhood there. She entered the experiences of children and young adults, like The Book college intending to be an opera singer, but graduated with a Thief by Markus Zusak, Number the Stars by Lois Lowery, degree in International Finance. After college she spent two Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli, or The Diary of Anne Frank. decades managing her own company, the Sepetys Entertainment Group, which looked after musicians and KEY FACTS composers. In 2011 Sepetys published her first novel, Between Shades of Gray, which is about a girl deported from Lithuania • Full Title: Salt to the Sea and sent to a labor-camp in Siberia. Salt to the Sea is her third • When Written: 2010s novel. Today, Sepetys lives in Nashville, Tennessee. • Where Written: Tennessee • When Published: 2016 HISTORICAL CONTEXT • Literary Period: Contemporary The book takes place at the end of the Second World War, • Genre: Historical Fiction which involved many of the world’s nations, but was primarily fought between the Axis (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and Allies • Setting: East Prussia (the United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, China, and • Climax: The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff others). Although fought primarily in Europe, the “theatre of • Antagonist: Alfred; Fascism and the Nazi Party; the Soviets war” extended to the Mediterranean, North Africa and the • Point of View: First person, from the perspective of four Pacific Ocean. Salt to the Sea looks specifically at far Eastern different characters Europe, and the (former) nation of East Prussia, the territory of which is now split between Russia, Poland, and Lithuania. By EXTRA CREDIT 1945, the German forces were clearly losing, as Allied forces advanced from both the West and the East. Civilians were Unofficial Sequel. One of the protagonists of Salt to the Sea, forced to flee north towards the Baltic Sea, where they hoped Joana Vilkas, is the cousin of the protagonist in Sepetys’ first German ships would transport them to safety. Only certain novel, Lina Vilkas, who appears in Between Shades of Gray. citizens would be allowed to evacuate, and the Nazi party had already murdered many others. Beginning in 1933, Nazi Untold Stories. In both of her careers, as an entertainment Germany passed increasingly oppressive laws, singling out and manager and as an author, Sepetys has focused on making sure maligning groups they saw as “undesirable.” While this group under-told stories were made accessible to the general public. was primarily composed of Jewish people, it included the In her novels, she enjoys writing from the perspectives of Polish, gay people, Jehovah’s witnesses, and people with children and young adults, who are often left out of historical disabilities. These groups were corralled into camps where they narratives. were systematically murdered. Those who managed to escape, like the fictional Emilia (the character at the heart of Salt to the Sea), were forced to conceal their identities in order to pass PLOT SUMMARY freely through German-held territories. The climax of the book, Salt to the Sea takes place in January 1945, during the final days the sinking of the is a real-life event. The ship’s Wilhelm Gustloff, of WWII. The Allied forces are gaining ground both to the west sinking marked the greatest loss of life ever recorded from the and the east, and so German civilians are evacuating, fleeing sinking of a single ship; however, the story was not as widely violence and running towards the Baltic Sea where the German publicized as other famous shipwrecks, like the Titanic or navy will transport them to safety. Lusitania. The story is told from four points of view: Joana is a Lithuanian refugee who was allowed to resettle in Germany; Emilia is a RELATED LITERARY WORKS pregnant teenager who escaped the genocide that wiped out Salt to the Sea is related to Sepetys’ other WWII novel, Between many of her fellow ethnic Poles and is trying to remain off the ©2020 LitCharts LLC v.007 www.LitCharts.com Page 1 Get hundreds more LitCharts at www.litcharts.com radar of roving German soldiers; Florian is a former art Florian to carry her baby into the lifeboat. Meanwhile, Florian restorer from Prussia who is smuggling a priceless statue he asks Alfred to briefly hold his pack (which contains a priceless has stolen from the Nazis as revenge after they killed his father; stolen artifact, the amber swan), but then the lifeboat is Alfred is a delusional Nazi soldier working on the Wilhelm lowered into the water, and Emilia is separated from her child, Gustloff. and Florian from his belongings. Emilia meets Florian in a potato cellar, where he saves her from Joana and Florian are eventually rescued by a boat that comes a Soviet soldier’s attempted assault. Emilia becomes attached to save the drowning and freezing refugees, but Emilia and to Florian, whom she sees as her “knight,” and begins to follow Alfred, although they manage to board a raft, remain adrift at him on his journey out of East Prussia. That evening, the two sea. Alfred, who has been writing letters to his beloved hide out in a barn, where they meet Joana and her fellow Hannelore for much of the novel, reveals that Hannelore was travelers—Klaus, Eva, Ingrid, and a man called “the Shoe Poet.” Jewish, and that he turned her into the Nazis when she Although the other refugees distrust Florian, Joana is a nurse spurned him. Overcome by rage, delirium, and hypothermia, and feels obligated to help him. She removes shrapnel from a Alfred first confuses Emilia for Hannelore, and then lashes out wound on his side and stitches the site closed. In the morning, when he realizes she is speaking Polish and therefore belongs Florian slips out, and Emilia follows him. to a group Hitler has deemed “undesirable.” As he advances on The next day, Florian and Emilia accidentally run into Joana her, Alfred falls into the water and dies. Emilia also freezes to again when they all decide to spend the night in the same death on the raft, but the final chapter implies that she is abandoned Prussian mansion. Although Florian’s wound has reunited with her family and friends in the afterlife. begun to heal, Emilia is now clearly sick. Joana examines her In a final letter that serves as an afterword, a woman named and realizes that, although only fifteen, she’s almost nine Clara Christensen writes to Florian about how, twenty years months pregnant. Joana worries the pregnancy is the result of earlier, she found Emilia’s body washed up on the shore by her rape, but Emilia assures her that the father of her child is a man home. She explains how she buried Emilia, and hopes she is at named August, whom she loves and is on her way to meet. peace. She adds that she also buried Florian’s backpack, along The two groups decide to travel together. They walk for with the amber swan, and hopes that he is at peace as well. another day until they reach the coast, at which point they must cut across a frozen bay. As they begin to cross the water, Allied planes shoot through the ice and Ingrid, who had been the first CHARACTERS to cross, falls into the water and drowns. Shocked by the death MAJOR CHARACTERS of their friend, the group nonetheless makes it across the bay, where they encounter a German soldier. Florian has altered his Joana Vilkas – One of the four principal characters and identification papers to make it look as though he is on a narrators. From the first chapter, Sepetys notes that Joana is personal mission for Erich Koch, and so the soldier offers to primarily motivated by guilt. Joana is a young Lithuanian take him by boat wherever he needs to go. Joana and the rest woman, who repatriated to Germany from Lithuania in 1941, of the refugees convince Florian to let them tag along, and so when Soviet forces threatened to overtake the country. She the group is transported to the city of Götenhafen, a port town blames herself for the capture and imprisonment of her cousin, where they will be able to board a ship and, they hope, sail to Lina, and so dedicates herself to helping others as a way of freedom. relieving the guilt she feels over allowing harm to come to someone she loved. Joana is a nurse and uses her skills to help In Götenhafen, the group meets Alfred, who is working on the others whenever possible. In the beginning of the novel she Wilhelm Gustloff. Everyone but Eva manages to get a boarding travels with the Poet, Ingrid, Eva, and Klaus, treating any pass for the same ship—Joana by trading her expertise as a refugees she meets on the road. This is how she first nurse for safe passage, Florian by forging his. Joana begins to encounters Florian and Emilia, whom she meets when they work in the maternity ward. There, she cares for Emilia, who spend the night in the same barn as her group of refugees.
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