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Someone Named Eva
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Exposition 1- Backround
Milada lives in Lidice, Czechoslovakia with her mother, father, and brother. The Nazis have taken over her town. -
Exposition 2- Setting
Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, during World War 2. -
Exposition 3- Characters
-Milada: the main character, who loves astronomy.
-Papa: Milada's father.
-Terezie: Milada's best friend.
-Babichka: babichka means "grandmother" in Czech
-Jaro: Milada's brother
-Ruzha: a girl who goes to school with Milada, who she dislikes.
-Mama: Milada's mother. -
Rising Action 1- Conflict
Nazi soldiers come in the middle of the night to arrest Milada and her family. -
Rising Action 2
Milada, her mother, and Terezie are forced to wait for days in the gymnasium of the high school. -
Rising Action 3
The Nazis order everyone out of the gymnasium, but to Milada's horror, she is put on a different bus than her family and friends. -
Rising Action 4
Milada finds herself in a Nazi camp set on turning her and fellow "Aryan" girls (girls with blond hair and blue eyes) into proper young German girls. She is given the German name "Eva". -
Rising Action 5
Eva/Milada makes friends with a girl who was renamed Liesel. -
Rising Action 6
Heidi, a girl who is also being trained, is so scared at night that she wets the bed. She is sent to a concentration camp along with her sister, Elsa. -
Rising Action 7
Eva realizes that she can no longer remember her real name. -
Climax
On their first trip outside camp, Eva is wearing her uniform, and an old lady screams at her that she is a Nazi, which disturbs her. -
Falling Action 1
Eva is adopted by her new German family. She realizes her parents aren't coming for her. -
Falling Action 2
At Eva's adoption party, she finds out that the only reason she was adopted was for her new Mother to recieve an award for having three children. -
Falling Action 3
While on a walk with Elsbeth (her new sister), Eva sees a Nazi work camp with Czech people chained up. -
Falling Action 4
The war begins to effect Eva and her "family". Hired help is let go, and there isn't enough food to go around. -
Falling Action 5
Eva, Elsbeth, and her "mother" are forced to go down into the bomb shelter. -
Resolution 1
Russian soldiers break into the shelter, and rob Eva's "father"'s office. -
Resolution 2
On the radio, Eva hears that the war is over, and Hitler is dead! -
Resolution 3
An international red cross worker comes to take MILADA back to her real mother, who is waiting for her.
