Chapter Summaries
Chapters 1-5
- The N.K.V.D came and told Lina, Jonas and Elna that they were being taken away, but not told were to.
-They had 20mins to pack all the things that are valuable or mean something to them.
- Jonas and Lina saw their mother breaking her china glasses and asked why she was doing that. She said because I love them so much, and I cant take them with me.
- Their father was already gone… The mother had told Jonas and Lina that he was going to meet them at the destination…
- Jonas and Lina were told that they were not allowed to talk to anyone.
- The N.K.V.D took the family and threw them into the truck with everyone else who was going to this mysterious place.
- The women who is currently having a baby in the hospital, we are waiting for so the N.K.V.D can throw them in the truck as well.
Chapter 6-10
-Everyone in the truck is trying to help the Ona and her baby.
-The “Criminals” were transported to the train station where Elena told Line and Jonas to stay close they would not get separated by the officers or the massive amount of people.
-The group gets herded into a cattle car which they soon discover that they have to deal with harsh condition ex. Hole as a toilet and bucket of water for thirst.
Chapters 11-15
-The group of people in the car suspect that they are going to Siberia in Russia In these chapters the children devised a plan to find out where their papa’s are without their mothers permission
-Lina and Jonas find their papa in a separate cattle car
-Their papa tells them to tell their that everything is okay and to go back to the cattle car before they get in trouble with the N.K.V.D
Chapters 11-15 Cont.
-Andrius decides to keep on looking for his papa even when he knows the dangers.
-When the two get back to the cattle car they soon relies that leaving Andrius behind was a bad idea.
-After hours of Andrious being missing Lina finds Andrius battered and bruised underneath their cattle car
Chapters 16-20
-Ona’s baby dies from lack of nutrition.
-The stench in the cattle car is getting to bad to bare.
-Ona had to get rid of the carcass which Miss Grybas had to do for her Ona because it was to depressing for her
-Jonas copies Andrius by smocking cigarettes
Chapters 21-25
-The train car got candy from Elna
-The guards went from train to train and took the group nearest to the front and put them into two horse-drawn wagons.
-Jonas and Lina are getting sold to the N.K.V.D
-They were going to take Andrius but Elna convinced them not to.
-The N.K.V.D wanted to use them as slaves
-Lina drew a picture of her father and his friends throing
paper airplanes at the leader of the Soviet Union
-In the end al Lina wanted to do was blow up the soviets.
Chapters 26-30
-The people were finally able to have a quick shower but the water was cold
-Everyone felt better and refresh and thought that they deserved more then just that
-They were benign sold to be slaves
-The cattle car group was not able to be sold so they were sent to a work camp.
-Their Elena, Lina, and Jonas were assigned to a hut as well as everyone else that was sent to the work camp.
Chapters 31-35
-Elna was asked by the NKVD to be a translator aka ”Spy” for them.
-All the family had to eat and drink was rain water and potatoes.
žThe family is learning Russian really well.
-They are sent to dig holes to receive their food for the day.
-They had to prepare for winter by getting proper clothing.
-The family is allowed 300grams of bread per day as long as they did their work
-The people in the cattle care had to keep gibing the old man who broke is leg food because he couldn’t work.
Chapters 36-40
-No one wanted to sign the work papers
-The people in the cattle car had to sign papers saying that they were arrested and that they had to stay in the work camp for 25 years.
-Mr. Kretzsky he forced everyone who was digging the hole to go into it and was trying to bury them alive and shot
the hole to scare them into signing the papers.
-Lina finds out that Andrius and his mother are working for the N.K.V.D and that they signed the papers.
- Lina and Elna were able to work in the beat field with everyone else to pay for their food.
- Lina got mad at Andirus for “spying” Andrius’s mother was sleeping with the N.K.V.D to save his life.
“Sometimes there is a beauty in awkwardness” page 161 chapter 40
Chapter 41-45
-The N.K.V.D reduced the amount of bread everyone got to eat so they would sign the papers.
- If they were to sign the papers they wouldn’t have to work for their food.
- Everyday some people would go and sign the papers.
-The angry mother finally gave in and signed the papers.
-Elena would give the angry mother wedding gifts for mailing letters
- Jonas continued to work with the two Siberian women making juice.
- He was very good at speaking Russian.
- Lina was hired to draw a picture of Kolkhoz in exchange for three cigarettes.
- It was very had for Lina to draw a N.K.V.D commander because they are trying to work them death.
- When Lina got paid for her drawing she saw Mrs. Arvydas crying with Andrius outside the office.
- She was bloody and scratched up.
Chapter 46- 50
- Elena heard news form the angry mother that there is a school, post office. And a little village outside the work camp.
- Miss. Grybas wanted to work at the school but they wouldn’t let her until they signed the papers.
- Elena got a letter from her husband Kostas that was in code and it said that he was doing ok.
- The soviets forced mother to teach school to a mixed class of Altaian and Lithuanian
Chapter 51- 55
- The children were only allowed to go to school if their parents sigined the papers.
- Jonas had been re-assigned for chopping logs for firewood.
- Lina was assigned to hauling 60 pound bags of grain.
- The family had to eat the N.K.V.D’s trash.
- Andrius's job was to chop down tress in the forest.
- On Christmas Eve everyone gathered in Mr. Stalas's hut. They all saved their bread rations for the evening. They sat in a circle as if they were sitting around a table, leaving an empty seat for their family and friends and the deceased.
- Mr. Stalas delivered a chunk of chocolate to the group from Andrius.
- For Christmas Lina gave Andrius a drawing she made of him, and Andrius gave her a Book, Dickens Dombey and Son
- Andrius came running into the Vilkas hut saying that the N.K.V.D were coming for her, they wanted her to paint a portrait of the commander.
- Lina had to make the picture flattering but every time she looked at the commander all she saw was smoke and snakes crawling out of a grey skull
- Lina and Jonas went to the back of the N.K.V.D barracks to get her reward for the portrait, the officers threw the bread and potatoes at them, then started throwing garbage.
Chapter 56-60
- Lina told Andrius that she stole the file on her family, and that she needed his help reading it, and returning it.
- The file says that Kostas Vilkas is in a prison in Krasnoyarsk
- Lina gives the grouchy women a message she has for papa on a piece of birch, she tells her to pass it onto any Lithuanian she sees.
- March 22, Lina's sixteenth birthday. She think everyone forgot about it, but when she is told to go to Mr. Stalas's hut there is a surprise party for her.
- Mother, Jonas, and Mrs. Rimas gave Lina a pad of paper and a stub of a pencil.
- Andrius gives Lina Dickens, Dombey and Son, and tells her that his birthday is on November 20th
- Lina and Andrius kiss
- Elena gets a letter saying that Kostas is alive
- Andrius tells Lina krasivaya, and that she must fin out what it means on her own, she wasn't allowed to ask anyone
- Andrius tells Lina that the N.K.V.D were moving people and that her and her family were on the list.
- Mrs. Grybas is not on the list, she told them she couldn't stay her alone, and that she would have to sign the papers
Chapter 61-65
- Lina gives Andrius her drawings and tells him to keep them safe.
- Andrius slipped the sparkly rock into Lina's pocket when she climbed on the back of the truck
- They were transferred to cattle carts
- The lemon coloured girl coughed up blood onto Jonas's back and Elena through it out the toilet hole
- The lemon girl died and Janina told Lina that her dead dolly, Liale said she was dead
- They stopped and were fed a meal, and were able to bathe
Chapter 66-70
- They were put on boats and then onto trucks traveling through a dark forest
- They reached the Artic Circle and said they had to build the village, a bakery and fish factory. They also had to build their own hut from the supplies from nature
- Janina's mother tried to strangle her daughter so she wouldn't have live through this.
- Jonas tried to catch fish for food but the N.K.V.D told them they weren't allowed to eat fish and that they were to eat bread rations
Chapter 71-75
- An American ship came to the village but the N.K.V.D made them stay inside the huts to hide what they were doing to them from the Americans
- Jonas found a barrel floating down the river and grabbed it so they could use it for a stove
- Lina and Jonas found out that their mother was not eating so that they could eat
- They asked for Kretzsky wood to burn and he threw some to them and walked away
- The repeater ate a fish and didn't share any
- A storm came and a group of people made a hut with a door that opens to the outside, the snow caved it in and they all died
- Mr. Stalas tells Lina the reason she is here is because her father helped his brother family escape to Germany before they got deported and that is why he is in jail, all so Lina would give him his mittens
- Mother asks Kretzsky about Kostas and he says that he was shot in the prison. Lina had to crarry mother home
Chapter 76-80
- They try to tell mother to rest but she refuses and does her share in work
- On November 20th Lina thinks about Andrius wishing him a happy birthday, and when she reaches page 276 in Dombey and Son there is a note from Andruis she flips threw every page reading every note he left
- Janina shows Lina a dead owl on the ground and they hide it in Lina's jacket and bring it back for food
- Elena kept drifting in and out of sleep
- Lina tries asking the N.K.V.D for medicine because her mother was sick, they turned their backs
- Elena gives Jonas Kostas's wedding band telling him its full of love
- Mother died, Mrs. Rimas said a prayer and they all cried
Chapter 81-85
- They looked in mothers suitcase and found fresh clothes folded nicely.
- They put her in a silk dress from her suitcase and they buried her
- Lina went out to steal wood when she say Kretzsky who told her that he was sorry about her mother, and told her about the reason he was there and that he hated himself too. He let her steal the wood
- Janina, the man who wound his watch were sick with scurvy Jonas's spots were coming back
- A doctor came and took care of the sick, when Lina ask who had sent him he said Nikolai Kretzsky
Epilogue
- Construction workers found a wooden box in the ground in side was a letter
- The box was full of letters and drawings that were buried in 1954
- Lina was imprisoned for twelve years
- Lina and Jonas return to Siberia
- Lina and Andrius get married
- The N.K.V.D came and told Lina, Jonas and Elna that they were being taken away, but not told were to.
-They had 20mins to pack all the things that are valuable or mean something to them.
- Jonas and Lina saw their mother breaking her china glasses and asked why she was doing that. She said because I love them so much, and I cant take them with me.
- Their father was already gone… The mother had told Jonas and Lina that he was going to meet them at the destination…
- Jonas and Lina were told that they were not allowed to talk to anyone.
- The N.K.V.D took the family and threw them into the truck with everyone else who was going to this mysterious place.
- The women who is currently having a baby in the hospital, we are waiting for so the N.K.V.D can throw them in the truck as well.
Chapter 6-10
-Everyone in the truck is trying to help the Ona and her baby.
-The “Criminals” were transported to the train station where Elena told Line and Jonas to stay close they would not get separated by the officers or the massive amount of people.
-The group gets herded into a cattle car which they soon discover that they have to deal with harsh condition ex. Hole as a toilet and bucket of water for thirst.
Chapters 11-15
-The group of people in the car suspect that they are going to Siberia in Russia In these chapters the children devised a plan to find out where their papa’s are without their mothers permission
-Lina and Jonas find their papa in a separate cattle car
-Their papa tells them to tell their that everything is okay and to go back to the cattle car before they get in trouble with the N.K.V.D
Chapters 11-15 Cont.
-Andrius decides to keep on looking for his papa even when he knows the dangers.
-When the two get back to the cattle car they soon relies that leaving Andrius behind was a bad idea.
-After hours of Andrious being missing Lina finds Andrius battered and bruised underneath their cattle car
Chapters 16-20
-Ona’s baby dies from lack of nutrition.
-The stench in the cattle car is getting to bad to bare.
-Ona had to get rid of the carcass which Miss Grybas had to do for her Ona because it was to depressing for her
-Jonas copies Andrius by smocking cigarettes
Chapters 21-25
-The train car got candy from Elna
-The guards went from train to train and took the group nearest to the front and put them into two horse-drawn wagons.
-Jonas and Lina are getting sold to the N.K.V.D
-They were going to take Andrius but Elna convinced them not to.
-The N.K.V.D wanted to use them as slaves
-Lina drew a picture of her father and his friends throing
paper airplanes at the leader of the Soviet Union
-In the end al Lina wanted to do was blow up the soviets.
Chapters 26-30
-The people were finally able to have a quick shower but the water was cold
-Everyone felt better and refresh and thought that they deserved more then just that
-They were benign sold to be slaves
-The cattle car group was not able to be sold so they were sent to a work camp.
-Their Elena, Lina, and Jonas were assigned to a hut as well as everyone else that was sent to the work camp.
Chapters 31-35
-Elna was asked by the NKVD to be a translator aka ”Spy” for them.
-All the family had to eat and drink was rain water and potatoes.
žThe family is learning Russian really well.
-They are sent to dig holes to receive their food for the day.
-They had to prepare for winter by getting proper clothing.
-The family is allowed 300grams of bread per day as long as they did their work
-The people in the cattle care had to keep gibing the old man who broke is leg food because he couldn’t work.
Chapters 36-40
-No one wanted to sign the work papers
-The people in the cattle car had to sign papers saying that they were arrested and that they had to stay in the work camp for 25 years.
-Mr. Kretzsky he forced everyone who was digging the hole to go into it and was trying to bury them alive and shot
the hole to scare them into signing the papers.
-Lina finds out that Andrius and his mother are working for the N.K.V.D and that they signed the papers.
- Lina and Elna were able to work in the beat field with everyone else to pay for their food.
- Lina got mad at Andirus for “spying” Andrius’s mother was sleeping with the N.K.V.D to save his life.
“Sometimes there is a beauty in awkwardness” page 161 chapter 40
Chapter 41-45
-The N.K.V.D reduced the amount of bread everyone got to eat so they would sign the papers.
- If they were to sign the papers they wouldn’t have to work for their food.
- Everyday some people would go and sign the papers.
-The angry mother finally gave in and signed the papers.
-Elena would give the angry mother wedding gifts for mailing letters
- Jonas continued to work with the two Siberian women making juice.
- He was very good at speaking Russian.
- Lina was hired to draw a picture of Kolkhoz in exchange for three cigarettes.
- It was very had for Lina to draw a N.K.V.D commander because they are trying to work them death.
- When Lina got paid for her drawing she saw Mrs. Arvydas crying with Andrius outside the office.
- She was bloody and scratched up.
Chapter 46- 50
- Elena heard news form the angry mother that there is a school, post office. And a little village outside the work camp.
- Miss. Grybas wanted to work at the school but they wouldn’t let her until they signed the papers.
- Elena got a letter from her husband Kostas that was in code and it said that he was doing ok.
- The soviets forced mother to teach school to a mixed class of Altaian and Lithuanian
Chapter 51- 55
- The children were only allowed to go to school if their parents sigined the papers.
- Jonas had been re-assigned for chopping logs for firewood.
- Lina was assigned to hauling 60 pound bags of grain.
- The family had to eat the N.K.V.D’s trash.
- Andrius's job was to chop down tress in the forest.
- On Christmas Eve everyone gathered in Mr. Stalas's hut. They all saved their bread rations for the evening. They sat in a circle as if they were sitting around a table, leaving an empty seat for their family and friends and the deceased.
- Mr. Stalas delivered a chunk of chocolate to the group from Andrius.
- For Christmas Lina gave Andrius a drawing she made of him, and Andrius gave her a Book, Dickens Dombey and Son
- Andrius came running into the Vilkas hut saying that the N.K.V.D were coming for her, they wanted her to paint a portrait of the commander.
- Lina had to make the picture flattering but every time she looked at the commander all she saw was smoke and snakes crawling out of a grey skull
- Lina and Jonas went to the back of the N.K.V.D barracks to get her reward for the portrait, the officers threw the bread and potatoes at them, then started throwing garbage.
Chapter 56-60
- Lina told Andrius that she stole the file on her family, and that she needed his help reading it, and returning it.
- The file says that Kostas Vilkas is in a prison in Krasnoyarsk
- Lina gives the grouchy women a message she has for papa on a piece of birch, she tells her to pass it onto any Lithuanian she sees.
- March 22, Lina's sixteenth birthday. She think everyone forgot about it, but when she is told to go to Mr. Stalas's hut there is a surprise party for her.
- Mother, Jonas, and Mrs. Rimas gave Lina a pad of paper and a stub of a pencil.
- Andrius gives Lina Dickens, Dombey and Son, and tells her that his birthday is on November 20th
- Lina and Andrius kiss
- Elena gets a letter saying that Kostas is alive
- Andrius tells Lina krasivaya, and that she must fin out what it means on her own, she wasn't allowed to ask anyone
- Andrius tells Lina that the N.K.V.D were moving people and that her and her family were on the list.
- Mrs. Grybas is not on the list, she told them she couldn't stay her alone, and that she would have to sign the papers
Chapter 61-65
- Lina gives Andrius her drawings and tells him to keep them safe.
- Andrius slipped the sparkly rock into Lina's pocket when she climbed on the back of the truck
- They were transferred to cattle carts
- The lemon coloured girl coughed up blood onto Jonas's back and Elena through it out the toilet hole
- The lemon girl died and Janina told Lina that her dead dolly, Liale said she was dead
- They stopped and were fed a meal, and were able to bathe
Chapter 66-70
- They were put on boats and then onto trucks traveling through a dark forest
- They reached the Artic Circle and said they had to build the village, a bakery and fish factory. They also had to build their own hut from the supplies from nature
- Janina's mother tried to strangle her daughter so she wouldn't have live through this.
- Jonas tried to catch fish for food but the N.K.V.D told them they weren't allowed to eat fish and that they were to eat bread rations
Chapter 71-75
- An American ship came to the village but the N.K.V.D made them stay inside the huts to hide what they were doing to them from the Americans
- Jonas found a barrel floating down the river and grabbed it so they could use it for a stove
- Lina and Jonas found out that their mother was not eating so that they could eat
- They asked for Kretzsky wood to burn and he threw some to them and walked away
- The repeater ate a fish and didn't share any
- A storm came and a group of people made a hut with a door that opens to the outside, the snow caved it in and they all died
- Mr. Stalas tells Lina the reason she is here is because her father helped his brother family escape to Germany before they got deported and that is why he is in jail, all so Lina would give him his mittens
- Mother asks Kretzsky about Kostas and he says that he was shot in the prison. Lina had to crarry mother home
Chapter 76-80
- They try to tell mother to rest but she refuses and does her share in work
- On November 20th Lina thinks about Andrius wishing him a happy birthday, and when she reaches page 276 in Dombey and Son there is a note from Andruis she flips threw every page reading every note he left
- Janina shows Lina a dead owl on the ground and they hide it in Lina's jacket and bring it back for food
- Elena kept drifting in and out of sleep
- Lina tries asking the N.K.V.D for medicine because her mother was sick, they turned their backs
- Elena gives Jonas Kostas's wedding band telling him its full of love
- Mother died, Mrs. Rimas said a prayer and they all cried
Chapter 81-85
- They looked in mothers suitcase and found fresh clothes folded nicely.
- They put her in a silk dress from her suitcase and they buried her
- Lina went out to steal wood when she say Kretzsky who told her that he was sorry about her mother, and told her about the reason he was there and that he hated himself too. He let her steal the wood
- Janina, the man who wound his watch were sick with scurvy Jonas's spots were coming back
- A doctor came and took care of the sick, when Lina ask who had sent him he said Nikolai Kretzsky
Epilogue
- Construction workers found a wooden box in the ground in side was a letter
- The box was full of letters and drawings that were buried in 1954
- Lina was imprisoned for twelve years
- Lina and Jonas return to Siberia
- Lina and Andrius get married