'Betrayal In Gudrun Pausewang's Traitor'

A fiction novel, “Traitor,” by Gudrun Pausewang, is a story about betrayal is worth risking your life for somebody’s good. Anna found the last prisoner who was hiding from the Nazis. Anna was the only person who knew where he was hiding. If she turns him in, he'll be shot. But if she hides him, she’ll be a traitor to Germany and if someone found out that she was hiding him, she could be shot herself.

First of all, in the story Traitor by Gudrun Pausewang, Anna continuously returns to the abandoned bunker where the Russian soldier is hiding since eight prisoners escaped from the Nazi prison and he was the last one who is still not be found by the police. Although, Anna knows that if they get caught, it’s a punishable death for both of them, the prisoner and herself. However, she kept helping the prisoner by giving him useful stuff. Anna’s brother Felix, however, has been watching her closely and following her when she goes to visit the abandoned bunker. Finally, he confronts Anna, telling her that he thinks she is hiding the prisoner, though, Anna explains that she goes to the bunker alone to write poetry. However, Anna struggles to find supplies for the soldier, she tells a friend about what she has done and she agrees to help her supply the hidden …show more content…
Even though hiding the Russian soldier wasn’t the best idea of Anna, she still risked it because she could not just let the poor man die from the Nazi and this was her only way to keep her family safe if Russians defeat the Nazi. “ ‘I will help you as long as I could,” said Anna, ‘ I promise you to keep you away from the Nazi, but you need to promise me to keep my family safe from the other Russian soldiers when they defeat the German,’ explained Anna” (Pausewang 69). Although it was a huge risk to put her life on the line, she took the opportunity to help someone out and also help herself and her family