Wednesday, 24 June 2009

Why does Gretel hesitate before looking out of Bruno's window?

At the end
of chapter 5, page 28, Gretel hesitates before she looks out of Bruno's window because she
thinks there is something in the way Bruno told her about the children and the way he watches
them that makes her feel nervous. She even says a silent prayer and clutches her doll to her
chest.

In the previous scene, Bruno had told her "I don't think the
other children look at all friendly." Gretel does not know what he's talking about. They've
just moved to the house and she hasn't seen any children at all. The reason is, however, as
Bruno points out when she presses him, that her window faces in the wrong direction.


When she finally looks out of the window in his room, the author doesn't describe what
she sees, but ends the chapter with the line "she saw exactly what Bruno had been talking
about."

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