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December 24 - December 29, 2022
He would protect her from the ugliness in the world, as much as he could.
Girl what do you know??? This seems like such an Informed line of thinking...
A nation that put children in harm’s way while its leaders cowered in bunkers had already lost; it just wouldn’t admit it.
Spit on 'em, king!
Ain't that The Way when disputing a small town's favorite piece of gossip
It's probably never going to be with enough narrative backing that I say this, but i feel that Liesl loves the wolf for fundamentally different reasons that adults. Pretty illuatrations, yea, but also the wolf creates the NEED for heroism on the part of Red and the Wolfsman, which i imagine is what excites her most!
These adults tho...misunderstanding the assignment
This reminds me of my suspicions over her short internal monologue a few pages back. WHAT is Katya up to when we aren't looking?
Never trust a creep who brings this many shooters back from God knows where
But he underestimated how tired these people were of the war. How disgusted, how broken.
GET HIM, GÜNTER!!
Me too, Katya...me too
He thought of how he would look to an enemy soldier who might stumble across him. He was clearly not a combatant. He looked like a woodsman who had stepped out of a Grimm story, dressed in wool, a cap on his head. These men were strong and capable and modest, never boasting about themselves but going about doing whatever needed to be done. They were the wardens of the forest and protectors of the fatherland, and it pleased Uwe that his neighbors might see him this way—and not as he thought of himself, the mama’s boy who was too slight and weak to fight for his country.
LOVE this description!
Wild things were beautiful; maybe their wildness was their beauty, the knowledge that you could never possess them.
He was a grown man with no time for fairy stories.
Uwe wouldn’t let himself believe the story was true. But he stayed well clear of that part of the forest.
even though his wife was not here to stop him, Uwe knew what she would want him to do.
UMMMM
Günter sounded like a schoolteacher interrogating an untrustworthy child.
Favorite side character, love this old man
When people felt threatened, they were happy there was someone to protect them.
Hoe don't do it...
He seemed to be changing right before her eyes in small and nearly imperceivable ways, like the waxing of the moon.
Every inch of him told him no, what he had experienced was real. Only his mind refused to accept the truth.
Hmmmmm i sense the Theme following through. Denial of evilness/wrongdoing in the self
A simple thing can turn you into a monster.
This beautifully illustrates how average, previously (usually) benign people get sucked into organizations like this. The leaders prey on isolation, exploit weaknesses and the desire to belong; once they have their hooks in, the sense of 'brotherhood' can trump almost ANYTHING else, conscience included
OH HOW INSIDIOUS, HOW TRICKSY
This had been his choice, after all. He had to be a witness to it.
Ok Louis
Congnitive disconnect. Again, playing back into the themes of blame shifting and denial
Oh we're in it now...
They wanted to run and be free of all their earthly cares. When they were wolves, they didn’t need to worry about feeding their families or not having enough money or finding work. They didn’t have to wonder if they would be taken to a prisoner of war camp, their families left to fend for themselves. They didn’t have to worry about what their neighbor or spouse or father-in-law thought of them, that maybe they had grown too hotheaded or unreasonable or had become strangely violent. There was nothing wrong with them when they were wolves
The wolf was strong, and the man was weak and ashamed of his weakness.
he knew he was not blameless. Even though he had not killed anyone, he had partaken of the feast afterward. He preferred to think that he’d had to: Hans had been watching, after all, and if Uwe hadn’t eaten a share, it would’ve been noticed. In the privacy of his own thoughts, he could admit that he would have done so even if Hans hadn’t been watching,
For the first time, he belonged, he satisfied this primordial need to be part of a tribe with other men.
He was disappointed that she did not see his sacrifice in the same way that he did. He could not think of himself as a monster, not entirely.
The Devil made Uwe feel strong and powerful and accepted by his fellow man, and there was a goodness there. When had God ever made Uwe feel good?
Uwe you son of a BITCH, i liked her!!