The novel is set at the beginning of World War Two in Europe. Through most of the novel the author allows the reader to understand each character and their story.
There is some during the novel where Vianne or Isabelle has flashbacks and or memories about their lives as children and their abandonment of their father. In the novel it describes present events that are happening to Vianne and Isabelle during the war. However, most of the novel is written in third person omniscient point of view. The chapters from Vainne in the year of 1995 are in the first point of view and she talks about her feelings about her past as her life is coming it an end.
The book is written in two different point of views which is very effective for the author and not giving away which sister is speaking in the first chapter. Antonie gets drafted from war, Rachel and Sarah both pass away, Vianne and Isabelle’s father gets killed, Vianne kills Captain Beck to protect Isabelle, Isabelle gets captured by the Nazis’ and get sent to a concentration camp, and Rachel’s son Ari now must change his identity so Vianne could keep him safe and as her child. In the novel covers Vianne and Isabelle struggling journey throughout World War Two. Other chapters are dialogues going back and forth between Vianne and Antonie, Vianne and Isabelle, Vianne and Sophie, Vianne and Rachel, Vianne and Captain Beck, or Isabelle talking to her resistance group. Overall, most of the chapters Vianne and or Isabelle are talking about their experiences and how they feel about what is going on in their lives. Most of the chapters are in the present, what’s going on to Isabelle (The Nightingale) and Vianne during the war. The Nightingale has a total of 438 pages, all of it is put into 39 chapters.
0 kommentar(er)
