There are a lot of different emotions that come out of this book. You'll find a lot of lies, a lot of fantasizing and some truth as well. The questions is why were so many lies told, and so many secrets kept. After all they have been through why didn’t they get it out, was closure ever desired? Maybe they lied to feel better about everything or they could have been too scared to face the truth. Lying could have been their way of gaining strength and being able to bare their hardship. The fantasizing had a roll in that as well. I took it as their sense of hope. They envisioned them being free. They wanted their lives back they wanted their freedom the wanted to be proud of who they were and not be ashamed and hide it. There were times where they dreamed about things being worse than they already were. Which is hard to figure out a meaning to. It could be that the fear they built up inside haunted them and their dreams were the only place they allowed them to come out, because it was hidden in each one of their thoughts.
With the war ending you would think things would get better but in my eyes it kind of got worse. I say this because they had this set way of how it would be if they returned and instead they got the complete opposite. They didn’t receive any comfort no welcome, not anything. In the camp they at least had people on their side they had friends who didn’t turn their backs on them and people who accepted them. Back at their home the only had each other no one helped them get on their feet. They didn’t treat them equal etc. who want to go home to that and even going back to their home which wasn’t home to them at all nothing was the same.
