![]() ![]() Fritz is a scrawny boy targeted by bullies, and Michael, who was bullied himself as an Irish boy in an English school, can’t help but to stand up for Fritz. ![]() In the early chapters of the novel, Michael makes two important friends: his classmate Fritz Brendler, and Jewish and British air force pilot Simon Cohen. Michael despises the Nazis but is willing to impersonate one, becoming a Hitler Youth and joining in book burning, if doing so will allow him to gain information and “make up” (21) for the “helpless” (8) way he felt on Kristallnacht. ![]() The novel opens with Michael searching for secrets while attending a Nazi dinner party with his parents he’s been completing this sort of spy mission since the night four years earlier when, after his family witnessed the violence against Jews on Kristallnacht, his parents revealed that they’re spies for the Allies. ![]()
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