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Hannah opens the door for the prophet Elijah and is sent back to Poland and realizes the new world she had entered.
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During a Passover Seder Hannah is transported back in time and is sent to a death camp.
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Hannah had met many people and as she kept on experiencing she knew that she would dream and go back to the past through her sleep.
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As Hannah gets transported to the death camp she realizes the importance of traveling through the past, but also realizes the danger she is in.
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As Hannah was transported she got there during the time period of World War II. She was only there for half way through it, but still feared.
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Hannah meets a girl named Rivka. Hannah is transported back to the present where no time has gone by and realizes that Eva is Rivka under a different name.
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Hannah end up realizing the suffering her grandparent's experienced and the necessity of remembering the past
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As Hannah already had experiences traveling through the past she end up realizing that she actually will continue taking a journey through the past.
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As Hannah continues to travel back in the past she ends up thinking about the importance of each time period and how they are actually important.
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This whole process was taking place in America but in the 1980's which the novel was published in 1988