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contradict: to express an opposite thought
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7 “And then one day things started to change,” he continued. “I came home from school and my mother was making armbands for us from a special cloth and drawing a star on each one. Like this.” Using his finger he drew a design in the dusty ground beneath him.
The star of David.
8 “And every time we left the house, she told us we had to wear one of these armbands.”
9 “My father wears one too,” said Bruno. “On his uniform. It’s very nice. It’s bright red with a black-and-white design on it.” Using his finger he drew another design in the dusty ground on his side of the fence.
A swastika.
10 “Yes, but they’re different, aren’t they?” said Shmuel.
11 “No one’s ever given me an armband,” said Bruno.
12 “But I never asked to wear one,” said Shmuel.
13 “All the same,” said Bruno, “I think I’d quite like one. I don’t know which one I’d
prefer though, your one or father’s.”
14 Shmuel shook his head and continued with his story. He didn’t often think about these things anymore because remembering his old life above the watch shop made him very sad.
15 “We wore the armbands for a few months,” he said. “And then things changed again. I came home one day and Mama said we couldn’t live in our home any more.”
16 “That happened to me too!” said Bruno, delighted that he wasn’t the only boy who’d been forced to move. “The Fury came for dinner, you see, and the next thing I knew we moved here. And I hate it here,” he added. “Did he come to your house and do the same thing?”
17 “No, but when we were told we couldn’t live in our house we had to move to a different part of Cracow, where the soldiers built a big wall and my mother and father and my brother and I all had to live in one room.”
18 “All of you?” asked Bruno. “In one room?”
“And not just us,” said Shmuel. “There was another family there and the mother and father were always fighting with each other and one of the sons was bigger than me and hit me even when I did nothing wrong.”
19 “Youcan’thavealllivedintheoneroom,”saidBruno.“Thatdoesn’tmakeanysense.” 20 “All of us,” said Shmuel. “Eleven in total.”
Bruno opened to his mouth to contradict him again—he didn’t really believe that eleven people could live in the same room together—but changed his mind.
21 “We lived there for some more months,” continued Shmuel, “all of us in that one room. There was one small window in it but I didn’t like to look out of it because then
I would see the wall and I hated the wall because our real home was on the other
side of it. And this part of town was a bad part because it was always noisy and it was impossible to sleep. And I hated Luka, who was the boy who kept hitting me even when I did nothing wrong.”
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