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100 1 Hegi, Ursula.
245 10 Children and fire|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cUrsula
Hegi.
250 Unabridged.
264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2011.
264 2 |bMade available through hoopla
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511 1 Read by Ursula Hegi.
520 Though more than fifteen years have passed since Ursula
Hegi's Stones from the River captivated critics and
readers alike, it retains its popularity, is on academic
reading lists, and continues to be adopted by book
groups.Also set in Burgdorf, Germany, Hegi's Children and
Fire tells the story of a single day that will forever
transform the lives of the townspeople. At the core of
this remarkable novel is the question of how one teacher-
gifted and joyful, passionate and inventive-can become
seduced by propaganda during the early months of Hitler's
regime and encourage her ten-year-old students to join the
"Hitler-Jugend" with its hikes and songs and bonfires.
Membership, she believes, will be a step toward better
schools, better apprenticeships.How can a woman we admire
choose a direction we don't admire? So much has changed
for the teacher, Thekla Jansen, and the people of Burgdorf
in the year since the parliament building burned. Thekla's
lover, Emil Hesping, is sure the Nazis did it to frame the
communists. But Thekla believes what she hears on the
radio, that the communists set the fire, and she's willing
to relinquish some of her freedoms to keep her teaching
position. She has always taken her moral courage for
granted, but when each silent agreement chips away at that
courage, she knows she must reclaim it.Hegi funnels
pivotal moments in history through the experiences of
individual characters: Thekla's mother, who works as a
housekeeper for a Jewish family; her employers, Michel and
Ilse Abramowitz; Thekla's mentally ill father; Trudi
Montag and her father, Leo Montag; Fraulein Siderova,
midwife to the dying; and the students who adore their
young teacher. As Hegi writes along that edge where sorrow
and bliss meet, she shows us how one society-educated,
cultural, compassionate-can slip into a reality that's
fabricated by propaganda and controlled by fear, how a
surge of national unity can be manipulated into the
dehumanization of a perceived enemy and the justification
of torture and murder.Gorgeously rendered and emotionally
taut, Children and Fire confirms Ursula Hegi's position as
one of the most distinguished writers of her generation.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Women teachers|vFiction.
650 0 Schoolboys|vFiction.
650 0 Villages|vFiction.
650 0 National socialism|vFiction.
650 0 Influence (Psychology)|vFiction.
651 0 Germany|xHistory|y1933-1945|vFiction.
655 7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd
700 1 Hegi, Ursula.
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