Behind the Bedroom Wall summary and Character

In the book Behind the Bedroom wall, Korinna begins to have feelings towards the Krugman's, but they are not crude feelings anymore they are feelings of hope and love also fear. Why fear? fear because she knows that the getaspo is coming for them. Korinna tries to warn them but luckily they had already left. Towards the end of the book the Jews did not only flee but someone else did too.

The main character Korinna is really into the nazi youth in the beginning of the story, She soon realizes what they really are about when she misses two days of the meeting and when she arrives she gets slapped. Korinna becomes someone totally different from how she started. She now has fear, love, hope for the Jews in her house. In the story she really tries her hardest to take care of them and hide them.

Behind The Bedroom Wall summary and Tough Questions...

In the book Behind The Bedroom Wall, so far the book talks about Korinna and her family hiding Jews. The Jews are mother and daughter, Rachel and Sophie, Sophie is about 5 or 7 years old and her mother is not so old either. In chapter 10 we see that the Nazis invade or search Korinna's home, Why? because the soldiers heard that there were Jews hiding in homes. Her home was the last one they searched in the village. I believe it has something to do with Rita. Korinna's so called "best friend".

A tough question in the story would be that Korinna is still deciding to tell the soldiers or to keep quiet, the problem she is having is if she tells on her parents she will be accused of being a traitor as well because she knew and didn't say anything until a later time. She doesn't want to get her parents in trouble but then she doesn't want to get herself in trouble, she doesn't know what to do.

Upstanders and Bystanders

I believe that many people were bystanders because of how bad Jews got it for just being Jewish. What influenced them to stay shut was the fact that if you even defended a Jew you were considered a traitor or a rebel. I think I would have been a bystander because in the book I am reading it talks about jewish children being mistreated. I personally wouldn't want that for myself or my family. I know it sounds selfish but if it doesn't involve me or people I know, I wouldn't get involved with it.

Plot and Summary of Behind The Bedroom Wall

In the current book I'm reading "Behind The Bedroom Wall', so far Korinna is really committed into the Nazi Youth group. She goes to every meeting or activity. One day she came home to find "mice noises" behind her wall. Out of her curiosity she moved her shelf and found a big hole in her wall. She began to see an image or shape of a human, right away she thought it was a monster, she screamed for her parents. The thing behind the wall wasn't a monster or monster's, they were jews. Now that Korinna knows what her parents are hiding or have been hiding she is deciding to either turn her parents in or not.

The plot or problem in the story is that Korinna finally finds out that her parents have been sheltering Jews. Korinna thinks her parents are traitors because that is what the Nazis are teaching the youth. Korinna is furious because the woman Sophie and her daughter Rachel are the jews that are hiding, Rachel is about 5 or 7 years old. Since Korinna is really committed into her youth group she is deciding to wether tell on her "traitor" parents or to keep quiet as well.