Micah’s answer to “**HUGE SPOILER ALERT** Was anyone else as disappointed as I was with Werner's death? I was so mad…” > Likes and Comments
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Possibly it enlightens the reader that not every person is wholly kind and good or wholly evil. We are laced with both qualities.
Yes the true nature of war. The first country Hitler invaded was Germany and poor nearly blind Frederick was evicted from the school..and never heard from the narrative again. Maybe he and his parents were killer? Yes Jutta was raped during the war..not fair but the worlds fair..The incidental ness of Werners death...maybe by a German french grenade planted in the ground.. Thanks for these great points!
This discussion of fairness ties in with the contained entropy of a system. Werner's death tied to a German-planted land mine works in with energy wanting to simplify itself to its lowest state, but the fact that disorder is always present in a system. Along those same lines, I felt like Frederick's ability to finish just in time before his classmates caught up with him was Frederick's ability to feed the entropy of the school system. The school intended for this process of naming the weakest by your peers as a way of weeding out the weakest. By Frederick actually beating his peers such that he could be named the weakest multiple times but not get kicked out, it was inserting disorder into the school's system. In the end, disorder prevailed with Frederick being eliminated from the student body, but was it orderly, was it the path of least energy output? It came with a disorderly consequence for Frederick. Just my ramblings, I am no expert in thermodynamics, but I loved this insertion of entropy into the war-game context.
I thought the title was mainly applying to Marie Laure being blind.
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Possibly it enlightens the reader that not every person is wholly kind and good or wholly evil. We are laced with both qualities.
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Yes the true nature of war. The first country Hitler invaded was Germany and poor nearly blind Frederick was evicted from the school..and never heard from the narrative again. Maybe he and his parents were killer? Yes Jutta was raped during the war..not fair but the worlds fair..The incidental ness of Werners death...maybe by a German french grenade planted in the ground.. Thanks for these great points!
This discussion of fairness ties in with the contained entropy of a system. Werner's death tied to a German-planted land mine works in with energy wanting to simplify itself to its lowest state, but the fact that disorder is always present in a system. Along those same lines, I felt like Frederick's ability to finish just in time before his classmates caught up with him was Frederick's ability to feed the entropy of the school system. The school intended for this process of naming the weakest by your peers as a way of weeding out the weakest. By Frederick actually beating his peers such that he could be named the weakest multiple times but not get kicked out, it was inserting disorder into the school's system. In the end, disorder prevailed with Frederick being eliminated from the student body, but was it orderly, was it the path of least energy output? It came with a disorderly consequence for Frederick. Just my ramblings, I am no expert in thermodynamics, but I loved this insertion of entropy into the war-game context.
I thought the title was mainly applying to Marie Laure being blind.
