Josef
This country is where the passengers are afraid to get sent back to.
What is Germany?
This is the city that Ivan just missed seeing.
What is Miami?
This is what the taxi driver points at Mahmoud's family at the end of the section.
What is a gun?
This character's body was dumped overboard.
Who is Ivan?
This is the family member that Mahmoud lost by giving her away to save her.
Who is Hana?
This is what Josef participates in to prevent his family from going to a concentration camp.
What is mutiny?
This is the object that Isabel and Amara kick out of the boat.
What is an engine?
This is what the Hungarian soldiers do to the refugees at the border.
What is teargas them (or beat them with nightsticks)?
This character helps the passengers on the St. Louis, even when it goes against his job description.
Who is Captain Schroeder?
This is the again and again that a police officer says to Josef and to Mahmoud's dad.
What is I'm just doing my job?
This is why the St. Louis could not disembark in Cuba.
What is the Cuban government ordered them to leave?
Who is Lita?
This is the country that Mahmoud's family crosses over into on foot.
What is Macedonia?
This character says a prayer over Ivan's body.
Who is Lito?
These are the two family members that Isabel loses.
Who are Ivan and Lita?
Josef rips this to show that he is mourning his father.
What is his shirt?
This is the business that Senor Castillo wanted to open with his sons.
What is a restaurant?
This is the country that the family passes through after Macedonia.
What is Serbia?
This character shoots the sharks circling the boat during Ivan's 'burial'.
Who is Luis?
This is why Josef feels he has lost his father BEFORE he gets left behind in Cuba.
What is his spirit never came back from the concentration camp?
The names of the two girls who are allowed to stay in Cuba.
Who are Renata and Evelyne?
This is the first word the U.S. Coast Guard yells at the boat when they see them.
What is "halt"?
This is the reason Mahmoud gives to his family for taking the taxi instead of a train.
What is a taxi gets us closer to Germany and sleeping on the ground doesn't?
This character asks Josef to help him with his plan.
Who is Pozner?
These are the words at the top of the t-chart we have been filling out that show a theme from the novel.
What is cruelty and injustice vs empathy and social responsibility?