Ana Karen - Week 7 reading journal lyrics

10.08 Liesel continues to write letters to her mother, but she has mailed only the first one, though. Her birthday comes. Rosa is still losing washing and ironing jobs and Hans is out of tobacco, so Liesel doesn't expect to receive a birthday present. She doesn't. She gives herself a present, though, by taking some of the washing money and mailing her letters in one group. Rosa finds out and hits her with a spoon, after which Liesel admits why she used the money. At that moment, Liesel realizes she'll never see her mother again. Rosa apologizes, but not for hitting her, Liesel realizes. Liesel lies on the dark floor and cries a yellow tear. Later, when she writes about this night, she remembers all the darkness, how even Hans's accordion music had sounded dark that night, and she thinks that if it had, in fact, been so dark in the kitchen, then she would not have been able to see a yellow tear. She remains sure, however, that her tear was yellow, that a bit of lightness was present during such a dark time in her life