Chapter 16 and 17

Grandmother died. This will impact Father heavily, because they weren't getting along and then she died. Grandmother was disappointed in what Father had become. Medicinal sherries are booze. Mother needs these, because she is depressed. She needs fewer of these now, because they are moving back to Berlin, but Father is staying at Auschwitz. Lt. Kotler gets kicked out of Auschwitz, because of his affair with Mother and his father. Grandmother would hate the flowers from the Fury, because she despises the Holocaust. Gretel is changing, because she is growing more mature and less childish. She also threw all her dolls away. Bruno and Shmuel's friendship is about to end, because Bruno is moving back to Berlin. Mother and Father are continually growing farther and farther. Bruno thought that he looked like Shmuel, because he was extremely thin and skinny. Bruno is going to move back to Berlin, Germany. This will cause problems for Bruno, because he will no longer be able to talk to Shmuel.