Is it handsome for me to wear a circus conductor? Bruno asked because he was wearing that dress at the party that day. Bruno was very proud to wear it. However, as soon as he said this, he immediately regretted that the adults all looked at him in Gretel as if they had just forgotten that the two children were there.
Children, go upstairs. Mother Ma said, Go back to your room.
But we don’t want to go to Gretel to protest. Can we play here?
Don’t let the children’s mother go to the door.
This is what you soldiers are interested in. Grandma went on to say that there is no way that two children in handsome military uniforms are doing all kinds of atrocities. I am ashamed, but I am not you, Rafe.
The children go upstairs. Now their mother high-fives them and urges them not to choose to go upstairs if they can obey their mother’s orders.
But they didn’t go straight back to their room. They sat on the stairs and eavesdropped on the conversation in the building. However, their parents’ words were hard to hear clearly, so they couldn’t hear grandma’s words. They could hear something intermittently and vaguely. Finally, after a few minutes, the door slammed on Gretel Bruno and hurriedly slipped down the stairs. Grandma took her coat from the coat rack in the corridor.
Shame. Before she left, she said that my son was a
The patriotic father responded that he might not know that no one could interrupt his mother’s speaking rules.
What a patriot! She shouted, Eat in this room, patriots. What makes me sick? I want to gouge my eyes out when I look at you in this military uniform. She rushed into the room and slammed the door.
Bruno seldom saw his grandmother after that, and he didn’t even say goodbye to her before he left to go together, but he missed her very much and decided to write to her.
One day, he sat down with a pen and paper and told his grandmother how much he cared about being here and how much he wanted to go back to Berlin. He described the house, garden, nameplates, benches, wire fences, wooden poles, wire balls and soldiers in tents, small houses and chimneys far away, but he mainly wanted to tell her that he had discovered that people who lived here were wearing striped clothes and hats. He told her how much he missed her. Finally, he signed a letter from your dearest Sun Bruno.
Chapter 9 Bruno remembered that he used to explore a lot.
Nothing has changed since we went together for a long time. Bruno still has to continue to put up with Gretel’s unkindness, especially when she is in a bad mood. She is often in a bad mood. Who calls her a hopeless child?
Bruno still wants to return to Berlin one day, although his impression of that place has gradually faded, and although he did think about it, the fact is that he hasn’t thought about writing to his grandparents for weeks, let alone sitting down and writing.
Soldiers come and go every day in his father’s office, that is, the office where no entry is allowed. Lieutenant kotler still walks around in his black boots, as if he is the most important person in the world. When he is not with his father, he will chat with Gretel on the roadside, while Gretel will laugh foolishly and wrap his fingers around her hair, or he will whisper to his mother in the room.
Servants come home every day to wash things, dust and cook, and so on. They don’t talk to them. Maria almost always puts Bruno in the closet without clothes. Pavel comes every afternoon to peel potatoes and carrots. Bruno often finds that he glances at his knee from time to time, leaving a small scar because of the swing incident, but they never talk, but then things change. Father decides to make the two children heavy. New Bruno thinks this is a ridiculous thing because he teaches two students’ schools, but his father and mother both think that a tutor should make them have classes every afternoon. But a few days later, a man named Mr. Ritz crashed his car and the class came again. For Bruno, Mr. Ritz is a mysterious figure. Although he is very friendly most of the time, he has never slapped Bruno like Bruno’s old teacher in Berlin before, but an anger in his eyes seems to break out at any time.
Mr. Ritz is fond of history, but Bruno is particularly fond of literature and art.
Those things are of no use to you. The teacher insisted that it is very important for us to have a deeper understanding of general studies in this era.
When I was in Berlin, grandma always asked us to play a play. Bruno pointed it out.
But your grandmother is not your teacher, is she? Mr. Ritz said she is your grandmother and I am your teacher here. You should tell me important knowledge instead of what you are interested in.
Isn’t the picture important? Bruno asked
Of course, it is important for Mr. Ritz to explain the objective world, but there are no examples of stories. How much do you know about history about young people Bruno is very popular with Mr. Ritz. He calls him a young man like Pavel, not like Lieutenant kotler. Well, I know I was born on April 15, 1934, Bruno said
I don’t mean your history, Mr. Ritz interrupted him, not your personal history. I mean who you are and where you come from. Your family rules your father’s land.
Bruno frowned and thought about this question. He didn’t know much about his father’s land. Although his house in Berlin was big and comfortable, his garden was not big. Now he grew up and went there for nothing. It didn’t belong to them. He finally admitted it, but I knew a lot about medieval things and my adventure stories.
Mr. Ritz hissed through his teeth and shook his head angrily. That’s why I came here to change the situation. He said in an insidious tone, take your head out of the story and teach you where to correct those big mistakes that have been made to you.
Bruno nodded and was satisfied with this. He thought he might get something in the end. They were forced to leave their comfortable homes and come to such a terrible place to explain that this was the biggest mistake he made in this short life.
A few days later, Bruno sat alone in his room and recalled what he had done at home in Berlin and had never done since. The main reason was that there were no friends here to play with him, and Gretel wouldn’t play with him. But one thing he could do alone, just like when he was in Berlin, was to explore.
When I was a child, Bruno said that I was keen on exploring. When I was in Berlin, I knew that I could find what I wanted in every corner with my eyes closed. I had never explored here. Maybe it’s time now.
Then Bruno jumped out of bed and rummaged through a coat and an old pair of boots from the closet before he changed his mind. He thought that explorers should be dressed like this and ready to leave home for adventure.
There’s nothing to explore in the room. After all, it’s not like the Berlin room. Bruno remembers that there are thousands of wormholes there. It’s strange that the small room has a small attic with windows. There are five floors in total. Bruno can stand on tiptoe and look through the window of that small room. No, now the root of this room can’t explore. If you want to explore, you can go outside.
So far Bruno has looked out of the bedroom window many times at the garden with nameplates, benches, high wire walls, wooden poles and other things he learned in his recent letter to grandma. He has become accustomed to all kinds of people wearing striped clothes and never thought much about it.
It’s like another city where people live and work next to each other. Are they really so different? People who live in tents all wear the same clothes, striped clothes and cloth hats and enter his house. Except for their mother Gretel, they all wear various textures, hats or helmets, conspicuous red and black armbands and guns. They look like Woodenhead, as if everyone is shouldering heavy responsibilities.
What’s the difference between them? Bruno has been thinking about who decides who wears striped clothes and who wears them.
Of course, sometimes these two kinds of people will be mixed up. He often sees people from this side of his house now on the other side of the wire. He can see that they are in control. Whenever soldiers walk up to people in striped clothes, these people will stand up immediately. When they fall to the ground, they will not get up and have to be carried away by others.
It’s strange that I never thought about who those people really are, Bruno thought, and it’s interesting that although soldiers always used to see their fathers often used to, they were never invited to their homes.
Sometimes, but not often, but it is true that several soldiers will eat at home and serve foam drinks. When Gretel Bruno puts the last spoonful of food in his mouth, they are called to stay upstairs, and then they hear that the building is noisy and it is difficult to listen to songs. Father and mother enjoy this kind of soldiers’ party very much. Bruno can see it, but they never invite people in striped clothes to dinner.