blog #1

Blog 1: In the beginning of the book there is a boy. He lives in Berlin Germany. In the first chapter the mother tells him he has to move from his big house in berlin. When the boy is confused he asks his mother why they have to move. His mother says it is because of his father’s job. In the book we don’t really know what his father does. The text says that the father has a study and never lets anybody into it. From what I can tell in the book, the father seems like a man who has a very busy job and is not very close with his kids. I am not sure if this is true yet but when I read more I will see.
The boy has a sister. They don’t talk about the sister a lot. He just says that she is a hopeless case. When you have an older sister you tend to think they are weird so maybe that is what he is referring to. The other thing I was thinking of was that his sister has a disability. In this time in Germany, people who were disabled were outcasts. In the Holocaust people who were disabled were prosecuted just like the Jews but probably more of them were killed. If this was the case then the family would probably want to keep their daughter hidden.
When the boy gets to his new house, he finds that it is very different from the house he lives in now. It is not as big and there are no houses next door. The boy is very upset that he moved. He wanted to stay close to his friends. I think the boy is very young. He acts like a little child who doesn’t understand “grown up” things.