Image this. You hear a loud booming on your front door like someone is trying to break it at night. You don't know what is going on. Are you in trouble? Are you being arrested? Then you are told you have twenty minutes to get ready for a whole different life. That is exactly what happened to Lina, her mother, and her younger brother in the book "between shades of gray", by Ruta Sepetys. Sepetys expresses different ways of how the story is unfair.
The story " Between Shades of Gray", unfair because Lina is taken away from her home, and she didn't know why. Ruta Sepetys states, " Were we being arrested? Where was Papa? I ran to my room." This quote concludes that Lina doesn't know what to do, and she is overwhelmed with everything that was going on. We see this again when the author writes, " But we had nothing wrong!". Lina doesn't know what to think. She is desperate for answers.
Lina, her mother, and her brother, are treated unfairly throughout the book. For example, one example this was done was, " Mother looked in the Foyer mirror to affix her loose curls and put her hat. The NKVD officer slammed her in the shoulder with the butt of his riffle, throwing her face-first into the mirror. " Bourgeois pigs, always wasting time. You won't need that hat," he scoffed". Another way this is shown in the story is , "The officer snatched the watch, let go of Jonas, and started yelling at the people next to us.Have you ever wondered what a human life was worth? That morning, my brother was worth a pocket watch." The NKVD officers didn't care about Lina, her mother, or her brother, and they treated them unfairly in lots of ways.
In conclusion, the book "between shades of gray", written by Ruta Sepetys is not fair. Lina and everyone around her we're not being treated fairly. She didn't even know why. All she knew was that the "knock" on the door at night changed her whole life, and she didn't she it coming.
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