The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

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Ten: Bedlam in Berlin
The silence in the basement was disrupted by air raid sirens which roared out in the distance. Anna gritted her teeth and rehearsed acting brave and Willy sat still, not wanting to move. They could hear the deafening bombs being dropped from planes overhead and carpeting the city. The air in the basement became thick, and they, both began to cough and gasp for air. Miss Margot and Miss Muller rushed into the tiny room and frantically handed them their shoes and shouted, "We have to get out of here, hurry, follow us!" The children fumbled with their shoes and as Anna clutched to the Stars they chased after the women through the dust and finally surfaced into the hazy afternoon sunlight. As everyone glanced about in confusion
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And occasionally Anna noticed that his restless eyes again appeared to be filled with silent remorseful secrets. But as time passed, he began to accept his fate and amuse himself by talking. He would chat in gentle tones about anything and everything, including the sporadic whiffs of Miss Margot's perfume which Joseph thought reminded him of a day when he had walked into his house and found that it was cozy and warm and smelt like sweet vanilla and pine smoke. On the other hand, for the most part Anna and Willy had become quite docile and accepted what they had once fought so hard to resist. The basement was their home and they survived to a large extent by routine. Every day they got up early and made their bed. Around six o'clock Miss Margot would come in breathless and in a hurry with their breakfast which usually consisted of warm tasty porridge. And now and then in the afternoon she would burst through the door, holding flowers and cookies and smelling fresh like the outdoors. She would stay for a moment or two and chat with the children about the sublime weather or the new little green sprouts in her garden. The children would show her the pictures that they had drawn and ask her questions about their mother. Which she could never answer, but she would

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