The boys from Brazil door Ira Levin

The boys from Brazil by Ira Levin

1A: The Boys From Brazil

1B: Ira Levin

2A:
Brazil, Sao Paolo, United States and Vienna

2B:
±1972. I find this out through the objects who are described, and when it was written.

2C:
A couple of months

3A:
Secret meeting in South-America about the plan to kill the fathers of the children-clones of Hitler. This has to happen to form the character of the children. This meeting is taped and given to Yakov Lieberman through Barry Koehler. Barry Koehler dies while telling this Lieberman. Yakov finds out that the children are clones of Hitler and he try’s to stop it. He succeeds in it, and doctor Mengele dies during it. Finally a clone of Hitler paints himself in a stadium with a cheering crowd, like some cheered for Hitler before.

3B:
The painting of the child.
The death of Mengele
Barry Koehler’s death

3C:
De eerste heb ik gekozen omdat het je in het ongewisse laat of de moeite die Lieberman heeft gedaan niks uitgemaakt heeft.

Bij het tweede deel zie je hoe Mengele probeert zich eruit te praten, maar uiteindelijk toch dood gaat. Hiermee denk je dat het probleem gedeeltelijk is opgelost.

Je ziet hoe Barry sterft, terwijl hij net daarvoor Lieberman informeert over de pratijken van Mengele. Dit is droevig, want misschien had Koehler Lieberman meer kunnen helpen.

4A:
Main characters:

Yakov Liebermann (main character)
The most of the book is written in his view. It wasn't difficult for me to feel with him. He is definitely a round character. For example, at the end of the book he don't want to kill little Hitler-boys because he doesn't want to be a child killer (like Dr. Mengele).

Dr. Mengele
Mengele is a nazi, and he got help from Hitler to clone him into little boys and now he's trying to give the boys the same situation as Hitler had. The fathers of the boys have to be killed at the age of sixty-five, because Hitler's daddy died at that age too. He doesn't show character development.

Other characters:

Barry Koehler
Barry is the student who lets Yoskila tape the discussion in Sao Paulo and gave some of the information to Liebermann, before Dr. Mengele (himself) killed him.

Klaus von Palmen
Another student who was obsessed by the speech of Liebermann at one of his conferences. He did some research and in the middle of the book they became partners.

Rabbi Gorin
He is contrasted with Liebermann whose ally he is. Gorin's solution to the problem posed by the Hitlers and Mengeles of this world is to fight them with their own weapons. The opposition between Liebermann and Gorin, that of idealism versus realism, is a fundamental human problem which will probably remain unresolved as long as mankind continues to consist of free individuals.

4B:
Yakov Lieberman, he is a good person. I got deep respect for him he doesn’t want to kill the child. Even tough the child looks like Hitler.

5A:
Flashforwards

5B:
Middle of the story

5C:
Bit of both, you know the killings are over, but you are not sure if the clones starting to look like Hitler.

6A:
He/she form

6B:
All-knowing storyteller.

7A:
Dr. Mengele made ninety-four boys with Hitler’s genes in Brazil.
Those boys were adopted by parents from America and Europe. That’s why the name of the book is the boys of Brazil.

7B:
The failed mission, because Mengele failed to do his mission of killing the fathers of the clones.

8A:
Should we use violence when it seems to guarantee a quick removal of the dangers threatening society.
This theme is represented by the militant organization and by Liebermann. Should they kill the little Hitlers or shouldn't they. Liebermann doesn't want to kill them because he doesn't want to become a child-killer like Mengele but the members of the organization insist on killing the little Hitlers to protect the world.

8B:
As you can read above, there is a message in the book.

9A:
I enjoyed reading the book.

9B:
The first chapters were a bit boring, because there wasn’t much action in it. But how further the book went, how more interesting it became. I also like reading detectives and you could clearly make out that this book was one of that gerne.