IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS - QUOTES AND ANALYSIS

The following quotations are important at various points in the story: (A Bantam Book, published by arrangement with Fleming H. Revell Company, November 1971)

1.) Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls - only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. (pg. 13)

Here Corrie points out the deep kindness that filled her father.

2.) A full ten years ago . . . Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that . . . the seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had never seen. (pg. 13)

In this quote. Corrie relates the fear that was building as far...........



........... 21.) We must tell people, Corrie. We must tell them what we learned. (pg. 234)

Once she is home, Corrie seems restless, not sure what her purpose in life should now be. It's only when she remembers these words of Betsie's that she knows she must begin to speak about what happened to them in prison.

22.) But the place where the hunger was the greatest was Germany. Germany was a land in ruins, cities of ashes and rubble, but more terrifying still, minds and hearts of ashes. Just to cross the border was to feel the great weight that hung over that land. (pg. 238)

These lines exemplify the final mission to which Corrie feels herself called - to help Germany heal.

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