How Does Oskar Learn English Language

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Kaylah Lightfoot
3. Why is it so difficult for Oskar to learn the English language?
I think that Oskar is having a difficult time learning English because he is still angry that he had to leave his country because of the terrible Nazis. He had to leave his family and wife because he knew that if he stayed he would be killed. Martin tells us that Oskar explains “his intense and everlasting hatred of the Nazis for destroying his career, uprooting his life, and flinging him like a piece of bleeding meat to the hawks.” When he thinks about his success that he accomplishes he thinks himself into a bad state because he has no one the share the accomplishment because his family didn’t come to America if him, so he begins it give up again. Martin tells us that Oskar also says “He said the fear grew as he worked that he would die before he completed the lecture, or if not that, he would write it so disgracefully he would wish for death.” Oskar has so many doubts, which is why I think he can’t learn English.

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He says “When I knocked no one answered. As I stood there, chilled down the spine, I realized I was thinking about the possibility of his attempting suicide again.” Martin started to really care about Oskar. He checked all his drawers and chest to make sure there wasn’t anything in there for Oskar to kill myself with. Martin went to visit Oskar two days after the big lecture, but “He had taken his life-gas- I hadn’t even thought of the stove in the kitchen.” Oskar had taken his life by gassing himself in his apartment. The irony is that in German the Nazis had many, many ways of killing Jews and one of the ways were to stick many Jews into a small room and fill the room with gas until they all passed away. Oskar moved to America to not get killed by the Nazis, but ended up taking his life the same way the Nazis would

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