In Four Perfect Pebbles, young Marion Blumenthal (age nine) must go through many hardships, along with her Mama, Papa, and her older brother, Albert. Marion faced many challenges and predicaments, including her leg being burned from a pot of soup. “...In our haste to cover up what we were doing, we tipped over the pot, and the boiling soup spilled across my leg…” (Four Perfect Pebbles, Chapter 5, Page 72). Even though the Blumenthal family countenanced many remonstrances, they still …show more content…
This must have startled the Blumenthals’ because it was in the wee hours of the morning and the officers were searching the apartment they were living in-even though they were given a warning. The Gestapo took their car keys, and Walter (Marion’s father). Ruth wondered, “...Where were they taking Papa? Would we ever see him again?” This shows when the Nazi started to stress the Blumenthal family, considering how they took away their husband and father. (Four Perfect Pebbles, Chapter 3, Page[s] …show more content…
This probably excited most families considering how they can finally immigrate or they can go back home without grief. Yet they couldn’t leave Tröbitz “until the typhus academic had abated.” (Four Perfect Pebbles, Chapter 6, Page 97) As the month ended, and June began, Walter Blumenthal passed of the same disease that was spreading around the village. The next day, the Tröbitz habitants found out that their quarantine term has ended. The rest of the Blumenthal family went to Holland once again. It was the summer of 1945. About six and half years had passed, in and out of camps and