Hanukkah Book Report

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Hello Mary, I am writing to you from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan. It has been months since I began staying with them. Today marks the first day of Hanukkah, so we were all celebrating. We had a special feast, but everything was mostly beans. Besides today's celebration, nothing has changed; we just began our daily routine everyday. Although, there was one occurrence when we heard the Green Police below us, but they did not catch us. Since the arrival of Dussel, I have been spending my nights on the couch beside my bed that he is using. I do not mind, but I miss being able to lay down in my bed. Luckily, everything in the apartment remained in good condition. Although the walls were bland, everything still worked. The w.c remained in tact, but made aa even louder noise when being used. I am nervous that one day when someone is using the w.c, the Green Police will hear us. My daily routine everyday remains the same week after week. I do get bored of constantly doing the same routine, but I know it is either this or surrendering to the …show more content…

Peter is the Van Daan’s sixteen year old son, who I think cannot take a joke. I try to joke around with him, but he seems not interested. He always takes jokes to the next level, and makes this more serious than they have to be. For instance, once I took Mouschi’s Hanukkah present, and began to wrap him around in it. Mouschi is his pet cat, and I gave him a spool of yarn to play with. Peter was so angered, that he grabbed the spool, threw it across the room and yelled in my face! My mother quickly separated us two. I just wanted to have fun, but he always takes it way too seriously. Also, even though she is very sweet to me, I am getting annoyed with my sister Margot. Everyone wants me to be more like her and compares the two of us. She is so boring, and does everything by the rules. I do not want to be anything like

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