CH. 16 17
Mothers Medical Sherries are drinks of whiskey to help her cope with what is going on. Lt. Kotler has been moved away from the camp which makes Bruno a lot happier and is glad he is gone. We can only guess that this is because Mother and Lt. Kotler were having an affair and Father found out. Grandmother has passed away and the family goes back to berlin for awhile for the funeral. Father is rather distraught and so is Bruno realizing all the things he can no longer do with Grandmother. At the Funeral Grandmother receives several wreaths from other mourner and among them is one from Hitler, Father is rather proud of this but Mother knows that if Grandmother was still alive she would have had a fit because she was not in favor of Hitler and his cause or what Father is doing for the man. Gretel over this time is growing up and she no longer has her dolls on the shelves and instead has maps of europe. Bruno and Shmuel still meet every day and they are quite the friends. Mother and Father continue to argue as Bruno overhears and that they are fighting. One day Bruno and Gretel find lice in their hair and Bruno has all his hair shaved off, as he is looking at his new do he realizes that he looks alot like Shmuel without any hair. Chapter 17 is basically the beginning of the end for the book, Everything is changing and its not for the better the ways things are looking.
Ch. 18
The end of the book is definitely a rather shocking ending. I really do like the ending but I do have some complaints to. The ending has to end with the author mentioning that what Hitler did obviously can’t happen again and it seems that he has a little sarcasm in his voice when he says that people are now better than that, honestly it is a little insulting that he thinks there is still another disastor like the holocaust on the horizon.
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