The great value of christian duguay s a bag of marbles is the degree to which it makes such a barbaric and bewildering chapter in human history comprehensible for young audiences.
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Familial devotion expressed in treacly but tender fashion is what powers a bag of marbles through its growingly fraught series of complications separations and.
A bag of marbles un sac de billes turns nazi occupied france into an obstacle course for two young jewish boys on the run and their plight into slickly sentimental thriller material for all.
The beginning of the book starts off during what would seem to be any ordinary day for a ten year old boy who has just lost a game of marbles to his.
Yes the film recounts a real life tale of survival but the fate of its lead protagonists in no way diminishes the grueling hardships they face on every step of their journey.
Instead by following the journey of inseparable brothers joseph and maurice we see 1940s france through the innocent eyes of a child.
Fleeing citizens jews and nazi resistors are roughly rounded up.
Some are shot and killed both in groups.