I believe the way Tatiana De Rosnay alternated Julia and Sarah’s stories and time frames was effective. Reading about these events through two different points of views was really interesting. While reading Julia’s point of view, we can see that some people are guilty of not caring or are oblivious to the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, however in Sarah’s point of view, we can understand the fear and humiliation the Jews were going through. There were also a few drawbacks in this style as well. In my opinion, one of the main drawbacks was it made the storyline a little confusing in the beginning chapters of the book because De Rosnay did not identify which character was speaking. It was only until reading further into the book, where
