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Gaspard and Nicolas Dufaure
A young girl whom Sarah Starzynski befriends in the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. Rachel is fierce and brave, and Sarah is initially put off by Rachel’s intensity. Rachel proposes that she and Sarah try to escape the camp, and they do so successfully, but only because Sarah is able to persuade the policeman who apprehends them (the same policeman who used to work in Sarah’s neighborhood in Paris) to let them go. By the time Rachel and Sarah are discovered and cared for by Jules and Geneviève Dufaure, Rachel is extremely ill with dysentery. Rachel is ultimately captured and taken away by the Nazis. The sense of loss and helplessness she feels at Rachel’s arrest prompts Sarah to return to Paris in search of her brother, Michel.
Rachel Quotes in Sarah’s Key
The Sarah’s Key quotes below are all either spoken by Rachel or refer to Rachel . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 27
Quotes
She had grown up too much to be afraid anymore. She was no longer a baby. Her parents would be proud of her. That’s what she wanted them to be. Proud because she had escaped from that camp. Proud because she was going to Paris, to save her brother. Proud, because she wasn’t afraid.
She fell upon the tar with her teeth, gnawing at her mother’s minute stitches. Finally, the yellow piece of cloth fell away from the blouse. She looked at it. Big, black letters. JEW. She rolled it up in her hands.
“Doesn’t it look small, all of a sudden?” she said to Rachel.
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Rachel Quotes in Sarah’s Key
The Sarah’s Key quotes below are all either spoken by Rachel or refer to Rachel . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 27
Quotes
She had grown up too much to be afraid anymore. She was no longer a baby. Her parents would be proud of her. That’s what she wanted them to be. Proud because she had escaped from that camp. Proud because she was going to Paris, to save her brother. Proud, because she wasn’t afraid.
She fell upon the tar with her teeth, gnawing at her mother’s minute stitches. Finally, the yellow piece of cloth fell away from the blouse. She looked at it. Big, black letters. JEW. She rolled it up in her hands.
“Doesn’t it look small, all of a sudden?” she said to Rachel.
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