The Bullier Book Report

The story starts with a young boy named Otto, who is playing hide and seek in the woods with his friend, Mathilde. He reads a book about three princess named Eins, Zwei and Drei. However, the book that he reads has a strange connection to reality and the three princesses show up and give Otto a harmonica, and tell him that when it becomes time, he needs to pass it along. He returns to the village and no one believes him. The story then fast forwards to Otto’s adulthood, where he marries Mathilde and works in a harmonica factory. He delivers the harmonica that he received, along with other replicas to the factory and marks a red letter M on it, for messenger. The story then jumps to WWII. This harmonica makes its way to Friedrich, a 12 year …show more content…
He grew up in Germany as Hitler was rising to power, and he always dreamed of becoming a conductor. His mother died when he was young and he only had his father, sister and uncle. When he would go to school, other kids would make fun of him, and bully him around because of his birth mark and his tendencies to wave his hands in the air as if he was a conductor. One day, the kids push him over the edge, and his father goes in to talk to the school. However, the principal sides with the bullies, and suggests him to send Friedrich to an asylum. After a couple of months, his father invites some friends to play music with him, since he is a cellist. However, he invites a Jew over, and the other cannot accept. However, his father insists that he stay, so he is taken in for questioning. He is taken to a concentration camp and is taken out after a month for a ransom. After this, Friedrich, his uncle, and his dad move to America. Here, the harmonica reaches Michael …show more content…
Their grandmother had made the housemaster promise to keep them together when someone is considering adoption. Many people come to adopt the brothers, but they only want one child, so all of them were rejected. However, one day, a man by the name of Mr. Howard comes and he is looking for children that have musical talent for a widow that divorced from her husband because she blamed him for killing their son, and her father recently died. So, both of the brothers meet the widow, Eunice Dow, and are greeted with something they were not expecting. Instead of meeting them with joy, she starts to cry. This is because she never wanted two boys, but a girl. So, she begins to file the papers for the reversal of their adoption. However, Michael, the older one tells his “mother” that he will try to find another home, if she keeps Frankie. So, she accepts. However, in the end, she accepts both of them as her children. Michael then decides to focus on piano and passes the harmonica down, where it reaches Ivy Marie