Exodus Summary / Study Guide

Exodus | Characters

Some of the novel's significant characters are paired, with one character drawing the other away from a distorting or damaging degree of alienation. The American nurse, Kitty Fremont, if initially "a nice woman who looks at Jews as though she were looking into a cage at a zoo," acquires an affection for Ari that causes her to revise her outlook.

Karen Hansen Clement, a young and beautiful survivor of the Holocaust, helps another survivor, Dov Landau — variously described as "a very good artist" and "a real artist" — overcome his isolation in pain and alienation. However, no simple...

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