On another level, the spade is also the tool to Bruno’s destiny, the word that he struggles to pronounce throughout his reading lesson. The Jew and German is the same in God’s eyes and God mourns for both of them, all other innocent souls, alive and dead and, those that are about to be consumed in the gas chamber, who die together holding hands and know not what the life has for both of them. I believe God mourns for Bruno’s mother too, who does not have the courage to go against her husband’s ways and decisions. It is possible that Bruno’s mother had an ideology of her own, that she lived on and was under the suspicion that both she and her husband were pregnant with a sin of killing the Jews. Her belief in her own pregnancy which was fake,
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Probably Sylvia was destined for persecution because she and her sister had almost no chances of escaping the death and torture on the hands of Gertrude and her children. It is interesting to note that not one child from the Baniszewskis seemed to question the reason of inflicting the torture on poor Sylvia. Also, it is surprising to know that Gertrude had illicit relationship with Richard Hobbs, what time did she meet with him because the family seems to have been present at home more often than going outside and not a single soul has witnessed her relationship with Richard. It is also interesting to question the psychology of the fourteen year old Richard Hobbs. I am curious to know what was on his mind when he was pursuing the sexual relationship with Gertrude. From a normal fourteen year old boy, he not only was engaged in the act of adultery but also was an equal partner in the murder and killing of innocent Sylvia. Using James Waller’s words, one can claim that Richard and Gertrude had “created or activated a second self” to committing that “evil.” The same is true for Gertrude’s children. It appears that Gertrude might have convinced Richard for the sexual relationship with her, but what was Richard thinking about all that? Did he not feel ashamed doing that with a woman of his mother’s age and then what was his purpose of doing it? Generally, most of the sexual relationships take place either, because of satisfying their souls and temptation or, because of some greed for
Probably Sylvia was destined for persecution because she and her sister had almost no chances of escaping the death and torture on the hands of Gertrude and her children. It is interesting to note that not one child from the Baniszewskis seemed to question the reason of inflicting the torture on poor Sylvia. Also, it is surprising to know that Gertrude had illicit relationship with Richard Hobbs, what time did she meet with him because the family seems to have been present at home more often than going outside and not a single soul has witnessed her relationship with Richard. It is also interesting to question the psychology of the fourteen year old Richard Hobbs. I am curious to know what was on his mind when he was pursuing the sexual relationship with Gertrude. From a normal fourteen year old boy, he not only was engaged in the act of adultery but also was an equal partner in the murder and killing of innocent Sylvia. Using James Waller’s words, one can claim that Richard and Gertrude had “created or activated a second self” to committing that “evil.” The same is true for Gertrude’s children. It appears that Gertrude might have convinced Richard for the sexual relationship with her, but what was Richard thinking about all that? Did he not feel ashamed doing that with a woman of his mother’s age and then what was his purpose of doing it? Generally, most of the sexual relationships take place either, because of satisfying their souls and temptation or, because of some greed for