It is also seen when Death says “sometimes, I imagined how everything looked above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blonde and the endless atmosphere was a giant blue eye” (350). The sky was arian, just like Hitler wanted his world to be, and something so mighty …show more content…
This is seen when Rudy pretends to be Jesse Owens, striving to be just like his hero, he smeared charcoal all over his body. Covered in black, he ran around the track, commentating as he ran “Owens is looking good, this could be his greatest victory ever”, he then continued to shake the hands of the other imaginary athletes. When his father finds him and asks what this behaviour was about, Rudy innocently replies “I just wish I was like Jesse Owens, Papa” (60).
It is also seen when Death says “sometimes, I imagined how everything looked above those clouds, knowing without question that the sun was blonde and the endless atmosphere was a giant blue eye” (350). The sky was Arian, just like Hitler wanted his world to be. Something so mighty having the characteristics of something so dangerous put death in a need to escape the reality. He imagines the beautiful colours to replace the fear and sadness of the …show more content…
and gets enrolled in school. She sticks out like a sore thumb,not physically but intellectually. She gets mercilessly laughed at by her classmates for not being able to read or write. Her first reactions are violent when she beats up Ludwig Schmeikl, but she soon becomes determined to learn to read and write by herself. With the help from Hans, she learned to finally read and write “Let 's get this midnight class started”(65) (even though it commenced at around two in the morning). Literature not only saved her, but it made her resilient, understanding, and