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| All he could say was that his father was a man to watch and that the Fury had big things in mind for him.” |
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| Bruno’s way of pronouncing Fuhrer, which is the German term for “leader” and was a title used for Hitler |
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| The new house, however, stood all on its own in an empty, desolate place and there were no other houses anywhere to be seen, which meant there would be no other families around and no other boys to play with, neither friends nor trouble.” |
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Definition
| barren; deserted; uninhabited; lonely or solitary |
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‘I heard Father say that whoever lived here at Out-With before us lost their job very quickly and didn’t have time to make the place nice for us.’
‘Out-With?’ asked Bruno. ‘What’s an Out-With?’
‘It’s not an Out-With, Bruno’ said Gretel with a sigh. ‘It’s just Out-With.’ ” |
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Definition
The location of Bruno’s new home. Bruno believes it is called “Out-With,” when in reality it is Auschwitz, one of the largest concentration camps during the
Holocaust. |
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| Fathers are supposed to be serious. It doesn’t matter whether they’re greengrocers or teachers or chefs or commandants,’ he said, listing all the jobs that he knew decent, respectable fathers did..” |
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| title of a senior officer in the military, person of high rank |
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