BISP Lit Circle (Summarizer) (10/2/12)

Chapter 12

_In this chapter, the story continues with Shumuel talking about his past, his father was a watchmaker and Shumuel himself used to have a gold watch until the soilders took it away from him. He also remembers one day when he came back from school and his mother asked him to wear an armband with a six pointed star, representing the Jews. Bruno says that he does not wear one but his father does , he drew the symbol and it was the symbol of the Nazi’s Then Shumuel said that he couldn't live in his house anymore and Bruno jumped saying that he too could not live in his old house Shumuel the talked about how his family lived cramped in one room and this boy Luka who keeps hitting him. Shumuel remembers getting on a train and Bruno asks why didn’t he get off but Shumuel said that there were no doors the more Shumuel talked about his past the sadder he got and Bruno decided to stop the conversation . Bruno talks about dinner and Shumuel wonders if he had any food but Bruno declined, saying that he should come for dinner sometime. As he was walking back, Bruno wondered if father, mother or even Gretel would allow this friendship to continue he then decided the better if it and kept it a secret instead

Chapter 13

In chapter 13, Bruno asks maria about Patel's past, she was reluctant at first but eventually told him asking him to never tell anyone what she had told. Afterwards Bruno brought food for Shumuel and asks about Patel but Shumuel knows nothing saying that there were thousands of them on the other side of the fence so he would not know who Patel was, They then discuss occupation and Shumuel thinks of working with animals Bruno says of becoming a soldiers which angers Shumuel and Shumuel mutters he will never understand how he is treated. Later at dinner, Lieutenant Kolter came to dinner and Bruno was saying how he hated geography and history and Kolter said about him learning from his father, Bruno's father asks about his father and we he stays in Switzerland and dos no come back to the Fatherland as they need aid more than ever and he is reluctant to say to say much, he only says that his father is in Switzerland and he has not spoken to Kolter in years, father stops the subject and says it is a matter for a different time, Patel comes in and he was already very nervous and shaky at the start of dinner dropped a bottle of wine on the floor causing Lieutenant Kolter to beat him up, no one bother to stop him, at the end Bruno tries his hardest to remember how his friends look like, but only remembers one is a ginger and the rest was blank  
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