od things to offer to other people as, Germany says it has good things to offer other nations. Trudi harasses people by sharing their secrets they confided within, as Germany does the harassing to get the World Wars started. The treatment of this metaphor is a success in the novel. A reader can really visualize how Trudi represents Germany in her everyday actions. Early in the book, you feel bad about Trudi being a dwarf. Trudi constantly torments herself, trying to stretch her body so she’ll grow. Later in the book, you begin to understand that Trudi represents Germany because Germany was such a small nation that was trying to expand and industrialize but no other nation thought they could. Germany felt that they had the production power to do so, and thought they could offer their goods to other nations. Surrounding nations felt Germany lacked the production power to expand themselves, and they could never be revered as other nations were. Germany felt that other nations did not support them because it was a small country, so Germany began to harass other countries. As Germany harassed other countries, Trudi harassed people in Burgdorf. Germany was the cause of both World Wars because it harassed surrounding countries, as Trudi was the cause of people’s strife. Trudi had a way of getting people to confess their deepest secrets to her. She would exchange the secrets she knew, for new secrets of other people. When people had a secret and did not want to tell Trudi, she some how managed to get it out of them anyway. People soon tried to avoid her as much as possible for fear of revealing their secrets to her. At the end of the Second World War, Germany has a lot of animosity towards the other nations because they won. The people of Burgdorf did not like the Amis, the American soldiers coming in and invading their town. They were very bitter towards the soldiers that were stationed in their houses, and even bi...
