Hitler's Daughter Character Analysis

In Hitler’s Daughter by Jackie French, the protagonist, Mark gradually learns to develop his own voice. Throughout the novel, he asks various questions of himself and others and by the end of the novel, he gains a sense of self and a clear voice. He demonstrates this development of voice through learning from his parents, teachers even his bus driver about Hitler and the world today. Mark strives to understand what brought Hitler to do what he did and with all of these answers, his perspective of the character Hitler and his voice became clearer. Mark feels the need to understand how the world works and his voice must be heard.

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Their opinions can be based on one certain point e.g. Hitler. “How could someone as dumb as that run a country?’ asked Mark.” Mark to his mum. The slight use of caricature in this quote really stresses Mark’s opinion on Hitler as he thinks that Hitler is too dumb to run Germany. “How could she want someone like that to love her? Someone who did such horrible things.” The use of foreshadowing suggests that the novel elaborates a bit on how Hitler treated people as Mark points out that even in this time and day it is still quite hard to believe that Hitler could even be able to love another human, let alone someone getting rid of people like his daughter. “They’d be washed away, thought Mark,” His dream. The use of sarcasm in this quote indirectly states that Mark thinks that Hitler is brainwashing his people. Consequently, the context in which this quote was used suggests that he thinks the people will just be washed away by the water as they are standing in the river. From what mark has heard about Hitler, he had already made the decision that Hitler was a horrible person who shouldn’t have been able to create his ‘perfect race’. His perspective on Hitler shows that he still can’t understand why Hitler did what he