Essay On The Book Friedrich

Friedrich A novel By Hans Peter Richter
During World War II, about six million Jews were killed. As Hitler came to power, he accused Jews as the cause of unemployment of Germans. The Germans treated the Jews with immense hostility for their unemployment. Hans Peter Richer has described the unfair treatment of Jews in a book called Friedrich. He speaks of all the hardships his Jewish friend Friedrich and all other Jews face. The book opens up with Polycarp, a garden gnome sitting on the garden. The book also ends with the same scene. The narrator was symbolically speaking of how peaceful the gnome’s life and Fridrich’s was. But after Hitler came to power he was contrasting the peace of the gnome with the miseries of Friedrich faced. Friedrich’s family was rich while many had no place to stay. After Hitler rose to power, many Jews were forced to retire at young ages. Fridrich’s dad was deported and Friedrich is dismissed from school. The mood changed as narrator’s tone did. At the start of the book, the narrator’s tone was friendly and happy. As the book progressed on, his tone became scared and tense. It
During the story, the Germans continuously kept discriminating against the Jews. The narrator and Friedrich were friends. Friedrich taught the narrator the art of sharing in the beginning of the story. The Jews contemporarily, lived with a constant fear of being killed. The experiences that shaped Friedrich were incidents such as him seeing his mother dying, his father being forced to retire at age of thirty-two, who later gets arrested and deported from Germany. Friedrich becomes an orphan at age thirteen. Friedrich’s mother states “I am afraid. Afraid, afraid.” when a mob breaks into their house. The narrator uses repetition to show how insecure she felt. At one point of the story, the narrator goes to Friedrich’s house to give him some potatoes. When he knocks on the door, no one opens, and he