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Chapters 1-3

• In Chapter 1, Ada’s mother screams at her and hits her because Ada is at the window trying to talk to someone.

• Ada has a crippled foot, and her mother will not let her leave their apartment.

• While her mother is talking, Ada notices blood on the floor, and she slides over it to keep her mother from seeing it.

• Ada’s mother tells her to fix tea and make dinner.

• Ada says that her story starts in 1939, four years prior, when World War II began.

• Ada does not know much about Hitler or what is going on in the world.

• Ada’s brother now goes outside and plays.

• She hates being alone in the apartment, and she tries to make him stay with her.

• When he resists her efforts and cries, she decides she has to teach herself to walk.

• Ada hopes her mother will...

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