episode 3

Episode 3

Chapter 1

How old is Anton now?

What reason does Anton give for avoiding the theatre? And why does he react this way?

What area of medicine is Anton specializing in and why? What does this make the reader think about him?

What are Anton’s thoughts about politics and why is this?

Chapter 2

List what is happening in the world now.

What is happening near Anton’s apartment and what is his reaction to it?

What happens as Anton reaches his apartment

Who does Anton see and speak to?

Chapter 3

List the initial differences between Anton and his guest on pages 85-86.

What is the reaction of both characters to the question “is your mother still alive?”

What happened to his guest and his mother after the war?

What is the difference between them according to the guest and how does Anton react to this statement?

What are the opinions of the two of them on communism on page 89?

How does Anton describe the way their fathers were killed?

What is the guest’s view of collaborators?

What is a Fascist?

Who does the guest blame for the shooting and why?

What does the guest to with the stone and why and what does Anton think of this?

Why does the guest return and what is Anton’s reaction?

Look at the last sentence, what has he found out in this episode?

What do you know about communism in the 1950’s?

Answers

Chapter 1

1.       23 years old.

2.       Anton witnessed an act where there is a woman shouting on a man and the man is afraid.

3.       Anesthesiology, because we wants more time for himself and because he thinks that surgeons are butchers.

4.       Anton does not care about politics, and when it was his turn to pick a side ad vote he wanted to go and vote for the liberal party just simply because his friends were going to. His uncle convinced Anton to vote for the social democrats.

Chapter 2

1. Communism and international politics.

2. The headquarter of the communist party lived in a place near to his.

3. As Anton opened the door a lot of police men came mostly by car but some came using motor cycles and horses.

4. Anton spoke to Fake Ploeg.

episode 2

Episode 2 Tasks

Chapter 1
What is Anton’s attitude to the Assault in this chapter and why?
How does Anton remember the war?
What is his relationship like with his aunt and uncle?
How does he feel when the war is over and why?
What memories does he have of the events of that night?

Chapter 2
How does Anton feel about returning to Haarlem?
What is significant about the conversation between the students?

Chapter 3
In what ways does he compare the gap left by his home?
What is his reaction to his old neighbors and why?
What does he find out, and how does he react to each thing he learns?

Chapter 4
Write an analysis of the following passage, remembering your tips from last week:

‘For the first time he felt a kind of fear, something sucking him  in, a deep hole into which things fell without reaching the bottom, as when someone throws a stone into a well and never hears it land.   At a time when he still thought about such things, he had wondered what would happened if he drilled a tunnel right through the center of the earth and then jumped in, wearing a fireproof suit. After a certain amount of time that could be determined mathematically, he would arrive, feed first, at the antipode, though he would not quite reach the surface. He would come momentarily to a standstill. Then he would disappear once more, upside-down, into the depths. After many years, also mathematically calculable, he would at last stop and remain floating, weightless, at the center of the earth, where he would be able to reflect upon the state of things in eternity.’ (Mulisch 75-76)


Answers
Episode 2
Chapter 1
1. Anton’s attitude towards the assault in chapter 1 was not as I expected, he did not join his neighbors killing soldiers or going to communist parties. He also did not burst in tears when he knew that his parents are dead.

2. Anton remembers the war as if it is broken pieces from the past. He also remembers the blood, killing, shouting and the prison cells as a nightmare.

3. Anton’s uncle and aunt treat him like if he is one of their own children; they treat him with kindness and compassion. On the other hand Anton does not feel as if he is their child, but he enjoys staying with them.

4. After the war finished he was relieved and happy that everything will change even his life, and he does not want to remember anything which happened in his life while the war was still going.




Chapter 2
1. He was not sure if he will go but he went anyway, and he felt as a man making “his first visit to a whorehouse.”

2. The influence behind the conversation of the students is revealing the perspectives of the youth men who might have a war against Korea. They also have revealed their thoughts and perspectives about communism.

Chapter 3
1. The gap of the home he left 7 years ago is compared to that of a missing tooth.

2. When Anton saw his old neighbors he was not glad neither happy to see them, maybe it is because of the memories he had when the neighbors killed the soldier and moved the body and Anton’s family getting killed.

3. He finds a memorial of his parents, he knows that their names were engraved in the wall and bronze framed. It was his only memory of his parents along some pictures.

Episode 1 and the Prologue

Aftermath of Tragedy: what happened is that the family got separated, the house got burned down and Peter ran away from his home to help his family.

Family: they got separated, he went to the police station, his brother is in an unknown place and hos parents are in a camp.

Cruelty of War: the cruelty was in there by making them get separated and night never see each other again. 

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