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conulyThey hide under beds. They hide in closets. They hide in cupboards, and in laundry bags, and under blankets in the middle of the floor. They hide behind trees and bushes and houses. They hide and sneak up behind you.
Hiding is a way of life for them.
Ana can hide very well where we have no idea where she is, but she mostly doesn't bother. The point isn't to be hidden, after all, the point is to be found! Evangeline... not so much. She's only four, after all, so she's bound to talk or fidget sooner or later.
My sister and I have independently had the same thought: Fun as it is for them, how hard must it have been to hide small children during the Holocaust? Not just hiding and being quiet for a short time, and then yelling "COME FIND ME", but being hidden for days and days (and years and years, but children think in days, don't they usually?) all the time?
Or hiding on the Underground Railroad with children, or hiding in any of the other situations in history where you needed to smuggle your children to safety as quickly as possible.
I have no idea how these people managed. Even cadging one day out of the hiding abilities of a preschooler, no matter how much self-control they had back then? That's an enormous undertaking. It's a depressing thing to think of as you watch the laundry bag inch its way across the floor, but I think of it every time - how on Earth were those people lucky enough to manage this?
Hiding is a way of life for them.
Ana can hide very well where we have no idea where she is, but she mostly doesn't bother. The point isn't to be hidden, after all, the point is to be found! Evangeline... not so much. She's only four, after all, so she's bound to talk or fidget sooner or later.
My sister and I have independently had the same thought: Fun as it is for them, how hard must it have been to hide small children during the Holocaust? Not just hiding and being quiet for a short time, and then yelling "COME FIND ME", but being hidden for days and days (and years and years, but children think in days, don't they usually?) all the time?
Or hiding on the Underground Railroad with children, or hiding in any of the other situations in history where you needed to smuggle your children to safety as quickly as possible.
I have no idea how these people managed. Even cadging one day out of the hiding abilities of a preschooler, no matter how much self-control they had back then? That's an enormous undertaking. It's a depressing thing to think of as you watch the laundry bag inch its way across the floor, but I think of it every time - how on Earth were those people lucky enough to manage this?
