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Choose your favorite quote in each of the next columns, which deal with the main themes of the novel.

Add a comment at the bottom of each column: What made you connect most to each quote? How does this quote best represent the theme? Don't forget to add your names to your posts.

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"Rachel couldn't recall a time when her life hadn't been defined by the fact that she was Jewish."

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"No matter what they had experienced, they had one thing in common. All of us...are refugees, without a country or home."

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"A sabra has a tough outer layer. But inside, it is soft and sweet. That describes the Jews born in Palestine. We must be strong and tough to survive, but inside we are tough."

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Aviva: "I joined the Haganah because I wanted to protect our people...I wanted to be...protecting our people through strength."

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Rachel: "I wish I were a Sabra. They are so...free. They live in a country where they are proud to be Jews. They haven't lived in hiding or had to wear yellow stars."

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"Their ship had been renamed by the crew, based on Jewish history-- the exodus from Egypt, where they had been slaves."

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David and Saul: "It wasn't easy living in the forest, but at least we were free, not taken to concentration camps in cattle cars."

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Rachel: "I hated being Jewish in Hungary. I always felt that an outsider. I watched Jews being beaten and arrested. I heard people talk about Eretz Yisroel and I decided that it was the only place I wanted to live."

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Yossi: "We will fight them with all our might. We will not let them take control!"

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Rachel to Miriam: "They haven't beaten us. Whatever happens, don't let the soldiers see us cry."

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"It was a miracle that the ship hadn't broken into pieces and sunk. But it had remained afloat and we survived. Now, we must survive whatever comes next."

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Mordecai: "We are not beaten. We are not slaves. Whatever happens, we will continue our struggle."

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"Ruth Gruber is telling the world you are brave people who should be allowed to live in your own country."

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Mordecai: "There is just one place in the world that we want to live. That is our homeland, Eretz Yisroel. There, and only there, we will leave these ships of our own free will."

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Rachel to her mother: "In France, we will still be Jews in someone else's country."

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"Look at the stars. So many. It is such a big universe and all we are asking for is a tiny piece of land where we feel safe and secure."

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"After sharing many hardships aboard the ships, the refugees continued to celebrate and dream about the future... They seldom talked about what they themselves had experienced in the war. These subjects were too painful to voice aloud. So they lived, ate, played games, sang and staged performances in the camp. And waited to go to the land that would give them shelter, a place they could call home."

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Ruth: "They are people such as the world has never seen, they are the bravest people I have ever known."

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"Throughout the whole ordeal, Rachel had been strong. Hensche thought back to their time in Budapest when Rachel often got into trouble because of her high spirits and independent nature. Even in the ghetto, Rachel had been a bright spirit, cheering them with her antics."

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"Rachel and the passengers on the Exodus 1947 had the conviction and courage to realize their dream and they enabled hundreds of thousands of others to do the same."