When She Feels She is Different from Her Classmates
One day, when the concierge asks Suzie, grumpily, if soon there will be not one, not two, and three but perhaps four occupants in the little room tonight and then exclaims
irritably in Yiddish, Suzie freezes, rooted to the spot and suddenly remembers. She asks the concierge to say it again, that word, which she does willingly, and more, though it is no use
because it is only the first exclamation that Suzie remembers, imprinted dimly in her memory in her grandmother’s panicking voice.
That is enough for the concierge to understand what is what. By then,she becomes Suzie’s conduit into a world of rumor, fear and also, strangely, of reassurance, because she
is safe here, now in Paris, she says, for this is the country where they write the Declaration of the Rights of Man.
Suzie remembers her dream of broken glass and realizes that then she is afraid until finally she meets Cesar, the linguists and the spokesman. Cesar introduces her to his family
for who she is and about her family too. Cesar explains that she has proved herself to be a friend they can trust. When the women take Suzie aside to wash her hands, they take the
opportunity to touch her and ask her where her children are. Then, Suzie answers that she has nothing and suddenly the women exclaim pityingly. Some of Cesar’s families continue
to be wary of Suzie. Yet, they still give freedom for Suzie to become a friend with Cesar. They looking at her with narrowed eyes as if to say, what does she really want? But
the others gradually accord her a status which allows her to move relatively freely amongst them: the status of an honorary man, or perhaps the status of an orphan,
whose unimaginable aloneness deserves their pity Potter, 2000: 28.
As Suzie becomes more and more involved with the Gypsies and their preoccupations, and learns about their taboos and their beliefs, and even, one rainy night, is persuaded to
sing for them.She begins, for the first time, to forget where she is going. The whole days go by where she does not pull out the photo of her father and thinks of America.
One day, when she comes down to buy something for her breakfast, she is confused because what she finds is the new concierge. The one she does not know before. Suddenly,
somebody stares at her like she is the only one foreigner and until someone asks whether she is a communist or not and says that the ships to America are full, and Suzie is not the only
one who wants to get out. Then, she returns to the opera without telling anyone of her fear. Her doubtful shows when an elderly Jewish neighbor downstairs, Madame Goldstein,
also knows that Suzie is Jewish and has warned her of the dangers on the horizon as the Germans invade Poland. After the following year, as the Germans invade France and
approach Paris, an exodus begins of Jews and other people threatened by Nazism. Crowds for the operatic show dwindle, and eventually the only cast members left is Dante and Suzie.
Dante attempts to seduce Suzie and she rebuffs him. He lashes out at her for her heritage and her relationship with Cesar, whose heritage he also scorns. She doubtful whether to continue
find her father or not. Because after hearing that from neighbor, her fear increase and her doubtful still stay like before.
Another doubtful feeling show when The Nazis attack the Romani village killa child. When Cesar comes to Suzie’s apartment to say goodbye, she expresses her desire
to stay and help Cesar fight the Nazis for his family, but he tells her she must fleeand find her father Potter, 2000:28. Suzie searches for her father and discovers that he changed his
name, gave up singing, and moved west after hearing about the attack on his home village, which he assumed killed all the members of his family. Suzie goes to Hollywood where her
father was a studio head and discovers he has a new family and that he is dying. She goes to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
the hospital, walks past his new wife and children who are waiting outside the door to his room, and is reunited with her father. The nurse tries to drug her away, to separate her from
her father because the condition of her father is really vulnerable and he is about to die soon. It is only when he whispers, Fegele my Fegele, my little bird, that the dam bursts and
it comes flooding out of her in a torrent wailing Yiddish, and then the nurse is there trying to drag her away, saying, Hush you cannot do that here, and Suzie says, do not
touch me, you cannot make me leave, I’ll never leave him, ever, and you cannot make me be quiet, no one can, do not you dare Potter, 2000: 42.
Her father cannot believe that the woman who stands beside him is his little bird,
Fegele. He thinks that Fegele is dead. That is why he does not find her until now Potter, 2000: 41.
Then, something turns in her and she finds herself reaching out to soothe the brow of the man whose stories she will probably never hear, and she starts to sing to him. The fear,
guilt, and agitation in her face slowly melt and her eyes are full of tears. It is that the man who have become a mogul, myth-maker, a father of the American dream, closes the circle
and becomes the man who cries. Suzie sings and for in this moment of remembering, she realizes not only what she has
irrevocably lost, but also what it is that she has become. He recognizes her and expresses joy at her appearance. She sits on the side of his bed and sings Je Crois Entendre Encore to
him in Yiddish as tears roll down her face In short, the repression of the character Suzie shown by her experience which is she
decides to move one country to another country in order to find her father because her father is leave and the village is attacked and burned. The repression can also be seen through
Suzie’s past experience, speech, thought, and reaction in order to survive find her father.