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My big idea for this is that good things can come out of the worst situations. All the characters throughout the story aren't in good situations, they all are struggling to survive but in the end, it all turns out good and everything is good.

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My big idea for Salt to the Sea is through the darkness light prevails.
I chose this big idea because in the beginning they didn't really have hope but as they were going to the ship they had hope that they would live. When the ship went down they lost hope again but when the ship picked them up they had hope again
"Yes. It was coming closer, cutting through the water towards, me gradullay becoming brighter.
Light." (

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Big Idea - Even when bad things happen, look for the good, because it's there. You just have to find it. In the book, they have lots of bad things happen to them. But, in the end, they find the good things, because they look for them. Even though there were bad things, they looked for the good things and found a reason to be ha
ppy about those.

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My big idea for Salt to the Sea is persevere till the end. The four characters in book needed to persevere through the hard time they were going to. Everyone worked hard to survive the war. If they would've given up, then no one would have made it through the war alive.
Golden Line: "Just a little longer now. It was very dark. My body felt relaxed but heavy. I was so tired. My breathing slowed, quiet. Never had I felt so drowsy. Then I saw something. I blinked softly. It was still there. Yes. It was coming closer, cutting through the water toward me, gradually becoming brighter. Light" (362-363).

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My Big Idea is that it isn't always going to go the way you hope.
I chose this for my big idea because it didn't always go the way the main characters wanted it to go, but they fought through it till the end.
Golden Line:
"'Guilt is a hunter. I was its hostage (Sepetys 349)"'
I chose this as my golden line because Joana just is constantly feeling her guilt clawing at her, tearing her apart.

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My big Idea for the book is that is that love perseveres .

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My Big Idea for Salt to the Sea: love can be found in the darkness.
"...death and destruction all around... Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death'"(Sepetys 275).

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I think the big idea is that keep hope even though you might die.
Golden Line: p 340

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My big Idea for the book is: Good comes out of darkness.
Everyone is scrambling throughout the book. No character is at ease the entire time, until the very end. You look at the crowd and everyone is just absolutely terrified, and the planes and submarines cause mass death. Emilia has a baby while outside people are throwing their children into the sea. The shoe poet takes in Klaus and takes care of him, meanwhile his family is most likely dead. Emilia sees a saving knight in florian, but he is just trying to survive without getting put on the battlefield.
"the knight's silhouette came into view and inspired me to run faster. I called out and he turned, gun aimed. (Sepetys 46)" "It's safer for you to stay with the others," he said. safer? He didn't realize.
I was already dead.(Sepetys 47)"

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My Big Idea for Salt to the Sea: Everyone has a time when the hunter quits and we go home.
I chose this as my big idea because it reigns true for everyone, but we watch it happen for several precious people in the book. Just like the narrators of the book, we notice our hunters and find ways to conquer them, but no matter how hard we try, they somehow always find us again. Once the Shoe Poet reached his time to go home, I could almost see the hunter leave him when he jumped into water. You can also feel the hunter leave Emilia when she gives us those visions of Heaven. When the characters in this book go home, the hunter quits and they can be free.
"I raised my face to the sun. My war had been so long, my winters so cold. But I had finally made it home. And for the first time in a long time, I was not afraid" (Sepetys 373).
This line perfectly describes Emilia going home. It is one of my favorite lines in the whole book.

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BIG IDEA: When life is tough keep persevering until the end.

I chose this because in the beginning no one had hope. Most of the people thought they were going to die and some of them did but those who were strong were able to make it. As they were getting on the ship they had hope that they would live. When the ship started to sink they lost hope again. But some kept persevering and a ship appeared to pick them all up.

"...death and destruction all around... Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death'"(Sepetys 275).

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Big Idea: You have your own hunter with you, but don't let that keep you from fighting.
I chose this for my big idea because everyone in the book including the characters who weren't narrating it, had their own hunters that kept them from fighting. They all needed to get the hunter off their back, but most of them didn't until the end, or they just died.
Golden Line:
"Fate is a hunter.
Its barrel pressed against my forehead"(Sepetys 347).
I chose this as my golden line because it shows how Florian feels like his hunter is keeping him back.

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Big Idea: Keep on Working to a Greater End

I chose this for my big idea because a lot of times, the characters could've easily given up and not tried but they didn't, they kept of persevering and in the end it was beneficial.
Golden Line: "Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death" (Sepetys 275)

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Big Idea: Push through the darkness, because there's always light on the other side.
I chose this Big Idea because there is always light on the other side of darkness. No matter what trial you're going through, there will always be another side with the light.
Golden Line: "I was so tired. My breathing slowed, quiet. Never had I felt so drowsy. Then I saw something. I blinked softly. It was still there. Yes. It was coming closer, cutting through the water toward me, gradually becoming brighter. Light"(Sepetys 363).
I chose this golden line because Emilia had been through so much pain and suffering. This shows that there is light beyond the darkness and that you can reach it.

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Big Idea: Never give up hope. I say this because if Joanna, or Florian would of gave up and had no hope there would of been no way they survived. Without hope they would of had nothing to lean on. There would be nothing to even really live for.

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Big Idea: There isn't always a happy ending, but God, love and family can help you get through. I chose this big idea because at the end their is a lot of deaths which is totally a not happy ending but at the end you can see that how they were getting through was family, friends and love. Sometimes during hard times you forget who you are and who you want to be.
"Who was I? I looked down at Joana and the children. Who did I want to be?"(Sepetys 371).

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My big idea for Salt to the Sea is that you should always have hope during dark times. I chose this idea because the main characters always have hope even when the circumstances are not in their favor. They keep pushing through the struggles. I think that if they wouldn't have had hope then they would have given way before the Gustloff. Joana and Florian finally get to the safety of America.
Golden Line: "I raised my face to the sun. My war had been so long, my winters so cold. But I had finally made it home. And for the firs me in a long time, I was not afraid"(Sepetys 373).

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My Big Idea: "Per aspera ad astra" (Sepetys 114)
This line from the book means Through Hardship to the Stars. I chose this line because forst it hold a lot of meaning to Emilia because her father said it too her. Second I like it because before any of them can get to the stars or a place where it is safe and where there is peace, they have to go through a tremendous amout of struggles and hardships. Florian is deaf and healing from the shrapnel, Joana thinks she is the reason her cousin is dead and Ingrid is dead, The Shoepoet's wife dies, The wandering boy lost his family, Emilia was raped and thrown out, Alfred is crazy. They all have gone through something horrible and even if some of them died and those who lived and found somwhere safe to live.
Before anything good can happen you have to go through hell.

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My big idea for Salt To The Sea would be "Brave". I chose this because almost everyone was extremely brave throughout this whole book and they would have to in order to stay alive.
“Death, it seems, has a mind of its own.”
I chose this passage because I think it abstractly is refering to being brave.

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Big Idea- Everyone has a hunter. Love keeps you safe.
In the beginning, there was a line that was that something was a hunter. They were hunted throughout the book by their individual hunters, and in the end, they were protected by love. "Fate is a hunter. So fate had found me across the ocean, tucked in an envelope...Twenty-four years have passed and even now my heart goes still when I hear a knock on the cottage door." (Sepetys 374 & 377)

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Big Idea: Your life will have times when you are lost, and don't know what you are doing. But God will make a way and guide you to it.
Golden Line: "There's a light. A boat is coming," he whispered," (Sepety 357.)

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Big Idea: Life always finds a way.
Through the entire book they have been hunted, freezing and surrounded by death, yet they keep going.
"Look, look. A miracle indeed...What's beautiful, is that she has beaten this war...life has spit in the eye of death. We must find her some shoes"(Sepetys 275).

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Big Idea: Every body has a hunter, but you must persevere through it with love.
I chose that as my big idea because in the beginning of the book everybody had their own hunter, but through each other they made it and kept on persevering, no matter the condition. They wouldn't have been able to do it without each other.
Golden Line: "Fate is hunter. So fate had found its way to me across the ocean, tucked in an envelope" (Septeys 374).

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Big Idea: Things don't always go your way. I chose this big idea because all of the characters want their life to go the way they want it to. For example, Alfred always wants to be with Hannelore and get his medal, but he ends up dying. Emilia wants to survive to meet with her baby but sadly passes away.
Golden Line: "Mama smiled wide. She kissed me, handed me a jar of jam, and then walked into the kitchen. I leaned against that warm door frame, allowing the golden heat to envelope me" (Sepetys 373).
I chose this passage because Emilia is having a vision of what her life was like, and how she wanted to go back to it. It's also like she's chilling with her family in Heaven.

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Big Idea: People are everything. Throughout the book Emilia, Joana and Florian grow very close and  realize that they need each other. You can especially see this in Florian from the beginning to the end of the book, because at the beginning, he doesn't want to be with the group, but by the end, he's running around trying to save Emilia and Joana. They all become a family, willing to sacrifice themselves for everyone else. Golden Line:   "Emilia stared at us from above, then quickly pushed the wandering boy into the boat on top of us. The ropes snapped and our boat dropped down into the water." (Sepetys, 336).

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My big idea for Salt to the Sea is to choose joy. Emilia, Florian, Joana, and Alfred could have had a very negative attitude about the war and their families, but instead they chose to find joy in the few good things.

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Big Idea: There is always light in the storms.
In the middle of war, fighting and death, there were still good things that happened. The characters in Salt to the Sea never lost hope and always tried to find good things in bad situations. Joana and Florian found each other, Halinka was born and the Shoe Poet learned that he could love again.
"Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death" (Sepetys 275).

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Big Idea: My big idea for Salt to the Sea would be that people need to trust each other.
I chose this because all of the characters trust each other in the book because if not, then they all wouldn't be n the same ship. Florian has to trust Joana and Emilia in order to survive.
Golden Line: " Was she telling the truth? Had the soldier really contacted Koch's office or did she say that because she was mad and wanted to scare me? (Sepety's 290)"

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Big Idea: I think a big idea for the book is there will always be light in the storms. All throughout the book each character has good moments during the dangerous and deadly war. Joana and Florian's light was meeting each other. Emilia before she dies meets her mother and daughter. She also has a baby in all the war and destruction. Alfred thinks of his "girlfriend" and glory before he dies.

Golden Line: "What's beautiful, is that she has beaten this war...life has spit in the eye of death" (Sepetys 275). I think this is a great line because life has beaten death in the middle of a wa.

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Big Idea: Hope shines through the darkness. Even when things looked bad, (when the Gustloff was sinking.) There is always hope of better things to come. When the Gustloff was sinking it looked like there was no way they were going to live through it, also when they were stranded in a life boat. There was still hope that they would make it through.
Golden Line: The precious treasure would end up at the bottom of the Baltic. So would I.

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Big Idea: We all have hunters, they track us down and erode at us.

I think we all have hunters in our lives that we cannot run from, we just have to face it. These hunters can't be fought alone. Through God's strength we can face it.

Golden Line: "I thought it was behind me, that what remained was only suffering's ghost. I had run and tried to hide, but it was no use. Fate is a hunter"(Sepetys 374).

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I think the big idea for the book is trust. Even when it looks like florian can't trust anyone he has to. He has to, to survive. He has to trust Joana and Emilia. That was the only way he could have made it. And because Florian and Emilia had trust Halinka and Florian survived. "'I'm Florian. My name is Florian.' He reached out and took one of my curls between his fingers."(Sepetys 181)

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Big Idea: I think that the big idea of the book is that even in hard times, we can choose see the good. In the book, each character is going through something horrible but choose to keep moving on. They move forward in their life, trying to have a more positive outlook through the bad events. When Ingrid died, the group chose to stay together and be there for each other. When Emilia was close to death she saw her mother and daughter in a light and beautiful way. After the ship sank, Joana and Florian moved their life into America with the children.
Golden Line: "But I had finally made it home. And for the first time in a long time, I was not afraid" (Sepetys 373).

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Big Idea: I think the big idea is good things can still come out of bad events. Throughout the whole story everybody is going through a bad time, but there is also good that happens. Many relationships are developed between the whole group, Halinka is born and at the end Joana and Florian are married and have adopted Klaus and Halinka. Even through the worst of situations, there is something good that comes out of it.

"'Look, look. A miracle, indeed.'
'Isn't she beautiful?' said Joana.
'What's beautiful,' said the old man, 'is that she has beaten this war. You saw it on the road. Ingrid through the ice, death and destruction all around. Look what's transpiring down on that pier. Frantic desperation. The Russians are just around the corner.'" (Sepetys 275)

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Big Idea: My big Idea is  that even when things are hard something good can come from it. When Emilia got pregnant she was mad but she ends up having a child that she starts to love. Florian almost died different times but he survived and he made new and good relationships.

Golden line:
Florian: The Terror returned mainly at night, but Joana was always there to chase it away.
(Sepetys 374)

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I think the big idea is that good things can come out of bad endings. In the ending of the book some good people died but some others survived and had a good life later on.
Golden line:
Our blessed shoe poet
Our Opi.
Our one light in the darkness.
He was gone.

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My big idea for the book is things always get better. Throughout the whole book things were really hard for all of the characters but they kept going and eventually things got better.
Golden Line: "My war had been so long, my winters so cold. But I had finally made it home. And for the first time in a long time I was not afraid"(Sepety 373).

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My big idea for Salt to the Sea is to have hope. Throughout the book, all of the characters kept fighting through the hardships, and in the end they finally got to experience peace.
Golden Line: "And for the first time in a long time, I was not afraid" (Sepetys 373

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Big Idea: I think that the big idea for Salt to the Sea is that there is always light in the dark. I think this because of something the Shoe Poet says. "She has beaten this war. You saw it on the road...Death and destruction all around...yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death." (Sepetys 275) He says this referring to the birth of Halinka, which he sees as light in the dark. I think this could be the author trying to show us that even the hopeless can have hope when they are shown that there is light even in the darkest tunnel.
Golden Line: "She has beaten this war. You saw it on the road...Death and destruction all around...yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death." (Sepetys 275)

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I think the Big Idea is pain is temporary. There may be pain in the night but joy comes in the morning.  Everyone in the book went through pain but towards the end the pain drifted away and it sort of ended. God needs everyone to know that through all the hardships and all that goes on that pain is temporary.

Golden Line
“I wanted to stay locked away from the pain and destruction. I didn't want to be strong. I didn't want to be the 'smart girl'. I was so very tired. I just wanted it all to be over.”
(Sepetys 122)

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my big idea is that even though they were in the mist of waryou can chose to be happy over being scard and you can still have frinds. florean was pushing every one away and wasent talking to any one just to survive.  but when he did talk he found out it wasent that bad and he made friends and he is now happy and he survived.
i had the nights pack
the knight had my baby.
shy gave him her baby for the price to save him and her child. she has the pack to ceep him out of troubble.(sepetys 350)

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Mrs. O's Big Idea for Salt to the Sea: Even in the shadow of death, love wins.

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Mrs. O's Big Idea for Salt to the Sea: Even in the shadow of death, love wins.

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I chose this big idea for Salt to the Sea because even though each character is hunted by fate, shame, guilt and fear, love prevails. Heinz drowns, but the Wandering Boy is no longer an orphan; he becomes part of Joana and Florian's family. Emilia sacrifices her life for her daughter, and in the words of Taylor Mali, she "goes straight to Heaven..." Florian says that he carries "sippenhaft," (blood guilt) yet in the end, the strength of Joana's love chases away guilt and fear. The cold revolver of fate is withdrawn. Again and again, we see redemption in the midst of terrible tragedy. A favorite golden line that illustrates this thematic thread are the Shoe Poet's words when he sees Halinka for the first time. "Look, look. A miracle indeed...What's beautiful, is that she has beaten this war...life has spit in the eye of death. We must find her some shoes"(Sepetys 275).

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Big idea: I think the big idea of the book is never give up.  In this book each character had to push though all of the problems. like Emilia thought she was going to die because her mom died of having a kid but Emilia just had to push trough it and she did not die. if all of the characters gave up than they would of been dead at the beginning of the book.

Golden Line: And then i heard her voice, calling to me from above the water. Kick! Kick your feet! page 366

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Big idea: I think the big idea for this book is fear is a hunter. This is my big idea because something was always making them afraid from something. We see this through out the book with different characters. This line is thought the book it was at the beginning and at the end of the book. Florian was afraid and there was a line at the end it said "So fate had found its way to me across the ocean"(SEPETYS 374).

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Big Idea: Through the darkest times, there is hope. I chose this because each character in this book was suffering in some way, but they all had hope. Even in their last moments, everyone in this book was hopeful for survival and a new life.
"...death and destruction all around... Yet amidst all that, life has spit in the eye of death'"(Sepetys 275).

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big idea: in darkness there is always some light.

golden line: its over you had a baby Emilia a beautiful baby girl.(ruta sepetys 235)O

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My big Idea is we all have a hunter. We all have something that haunts us, and ends up chasing and hunting us. There is a point where our problems stop hunting us, and that is when we die. We go to heaven where the evil of the earth can not follow us. In the book it says that when Emilia hallucinates she is calm and nothing is troubling her. She was with her family. "Guilt is a hunter" (Sepetys 1). "Fate is a hunter" (Sepetys 3). "Shame is a hunter" (Sepetys 5). "Fear is a hunter" (Sepetys 7).