Ludaacriss
...at are against him, which he showed at the end of the book. Grandpa Trenker seemed like a very pleasant person to be with, but as the book goes on it seems like he was only polite because all he wanted to do was make up what he had done in the Holocaust by killing a young girl by ordering a dog to kill her. Skye was also a teenager and seemed to think she knows what is always right for her. She was somebody who knew how someone felt even without them showing it, examples of this are on page 162 last paragraph when Skye says “and I’m telling you right now that I’m going anywhere I feel like going,” She also showed examples of being very giving throughout the story an example of this is when she bough Buddy a blue cashmere sweater. The book title was very significant in relation to the story. Gentlehands was a poem that a girl in the Holocaust wrote before she died. This is what she wrote: “I can see your beauty But you can see mine, And you have a gun. The only Music I hear Is what you play for me. It is beautiful, too, But it dose not speak To you about me. You listen and Smile. I wait to die, And call you Gentlehands.” In the poem Gentlehands was the SS officer who was the one that killed her. And close to the end of the book you find out that Gentlehands was Grandpa Trenker. I think that a major theme in the story was appearance versus reality. I think that Grandpa Trenker’s appearance was totally different than the reality. He seemed very well mannered, courteous, respectful and also very polite. However he was just acting like that just because he was trying to makeup for what he had done in the past. 2) What do you question? There are many things that I question about Buddy’s behavior. One thing, which I think Buddy could have done differently, was tell his parents he went to his grandfathers instead of lying to them. Another thing that he has done quite a few times in the story which I feel he could have done differently was once again not lie to his parents, but this time about going over to Skye’s house. I think that if he had been completely honest to his parents then they wouldn’t feel so much bitterness to her as they did. The only reason that they felt that way about her is because she is from an upper class family. There is one poem in the book on page 152 that I did not completely understand. It said: “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting to; If you can wait and not be tired from waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look to good, nor talk to wise…” But my interpretation of it was if you can do what the poem says then you are a man. There is one thing in the book I do not think was too realistic. It was how everything connected way too perfectly. First, there was Mr. De Lucca living with Skye at the time even though nobody knew why. Second, Skye was going out with Buddy. Third, Buddy’s Grandfather was Gentlehands. Four, Mr. De Lucca exposed Grandpa Trenker A.K.A. Gentlehands. Since M.E. Kerr was alive during World War Two maybe that is why she felt she should write a story in it. 3) What do you relate to? There were a few things in this story that I have learned about the Holocaust. The first major thing that I have learned is how much young people are influenced by what adults say. The example of this in the story is that Buddy’s little brother wasn’t even sure what a Nazi was, but he thought that all Germans were Nazis. When he found out that someone on the next street to him was German, he was breaking all of her windows because of that. I think that the reason you see so many young people in wars and other things people fight for is because in some ways they are unintelligent and very naive. When the person gets older and can think for him or herself they soon realize how stupid their ...