Corll was born on 24 December 1939 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Corll grew up in a combative home and with his parents quarreling constantly. They were divorced while Corll was still an infant, and then remarried after World War II, but Dean's father provided no stabilizing influence, regarding his children with thinly-veiled distaste, resorting to harsh punishment for the smallest infractions. When the couple separated a second time, Corll and his younger brother were left with a series of sitters and leaving their mother to work to support the family on her own. Rheumatic fever left Dean with a heart condition, resulting in frequent absence from school, and he seemed to welcome the change when his mother remarried, moving the family to Texas.
Although Anja Spiegelman, Vladek's late wife and Art's mother, survived Auschwitz and moved to America, she never emotionally escaped the terror of the Holocaust. Art reveals her unfortunate fate during the prologue of Maus on page 13 when he is describing his father's appearance. “He had aged a lot since I saw him last. My mother’s suicide and his two heart attacks had taken their toll” (Speigelman 13). Having this fact introduced at the very beginning of the book sets the eerie mood of false hope that the Holocaust entails – it shows us that Anja left Auschwitz physically alive, but emotionally broken.
When Bruno asks his mother asks his mother why they have to move from their house in Berlin she tells him it is because of his father’s job. In Bruno’s innocence he doesn’t understand why he has to move from his home in Berlin. I think the question John Boyne gives us is that Bruno is thinking why do we all have to move? Why can’t father just go? In chapter 4 Bruno and his older sister Gretel make an unusual discovery when they look outside Bruno’s bedroom window.
Bruno is Nazi commander’s son, allowed to be happy, the son of the one that worked for the reason of Shmuel’s family being kept. Shmuel is a Jew kid, not allow to be
He creates his own soundtrack through a series of mix tapes full of iconic songs, reads a huge stack of classic books that his English teacher give him because he see that Charlie can go very far in his future. When Charlie was younger he lost his favorite person in the whole world, his aunt Helen. She died in a car accident on his seventh birthday, she was on her way to buy Charlie a birthday gift. Ever since then he feel like it was all his fault. But he finds out she molested him when he was younger.
Unexpectedly, one day fourteen years later, Allie came across an article in the paper about Noah rebuilding an old plantation house that he loved since he was a child. He and Allie spent many nights together in that old house. She found herself speechless and shaky. She read the article over and over again, thinking this must be a dream. Consequently, after three weeks of distraction and utter disbelief of stumbling across Noah in the paper, she decided that she needed to go and see him one more time.
It’s a big watch and it is supposed to be in the central station in New Orleans. But the watch goes backwards, because the man who made it, son died in the war, so he wishes that the time would go backwards, and give all the killed soldiers their life back. And I think that the watch is a symbol of the time going backwards, because Benjamin’s life is going backwards. As a baby Benjamin was left at an elder home, and got taken care of, by a woman named Queenie. When Benjamin lived at the elder home, he meets a little girl named Daisy, and they became very good friends.
Afterward, I told her the purpose of our meeting; to make her choice menu for the day. At that time I sat very close to Mrs. Brown in order to show my interest in her and touch her when necessary to emphasize my point where necessary. Mrs. Brown is partially sighted; I needed to give good description and pronounced words loud enough. Mrs. Brown told me what she wants in her menu list; as a vegetarian it was expected she won’t be eaten fish. However, to my surprise I found that some vegetarian do eat fish; one of them is Mrs. Brown.
“Aunt Margery,” as she was known to Thurber, took the role of his mother for most of his childhood. She was such a major influence on him that he mentioned her in the preface of one of his pieces called The Thurber Carnivals (Bernstein, 14). When Thurber was only 6 years old, his brother William accidentally shot him in his left eye with an arrow during a game. Sadly, the incident left him blind in that eye (“Thurber, James (Grover),” 433). Because of Christian Science, his family did not want to go to an official doctor.
When Karl Seidl finished his story, he begged the Jewish forced-laborer to forgive him. Wiesenthal, however, rose and walked out. During the next two years, Wiesenthal shared this story with fellow camp mates, ending each time with: “Was my silence at the bedside of the dying Nazi right or wrong?” The incident and question so troubled Wiesenthal that, in 1946, he visited Karl Seidl’s mother in Stuttgart but left without telling the bereaved woman about her son’s misdeeds. A number of essayists chose to respond to Wiesenthal’s question thusly: “What would I have done [in Simon Wiesenthal’s place]?” Although Wiesenthal acceded to such a “paraphrase,” this writer agrees with responder Lawrence Langer that such role-playing about Holocaust reality trivializes the serious issues of judgment and forgiveness that The Sunflower raises. Forgiveness is, indeed, the essence of the debate that high scholars should enter into.