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**saopinax** · 01-14-2009, 11:13 PM

The shoemaker incident when Klaus Heinrich is still a child shows the divide between the 'ordinary' people and the monarchy, with the bitchy and bullying "lackeys" (who seem to be the ones who reveal snobbishness by virtue of their connection to the monarchy) effectively acting as a barrier between the two groups. Hinnerke is the first real encounter that Klaus Heinrich and his sister have with anyone of the ordinary people and it has a big impact on him. Or does it? Will it be remembered later? What does suddenly become clear for Klaus Heinrich is that the people see him as different ? and name their own children after him (as Hinnerke himself had).

The shoemaker incident comes back later in the book when Klaus Heinrich tells someone what the lackeys are like. He relates second hand experience as if he knows it first hand, and possibly doesn't even remember how he learned it, not unlike how prejudice can be handed down from parent to child.

Most of Klaus Heinrich's experience is unreal, and I think that's what these two chapters (Hinnerke the Shoemaker and Doctor Uberbein) are set to portray.

01-14-2009, 11:13 PM	#37
saopinax Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	The shoemaker incident when Klaus Heinrich is still a child shows the divide between the 'ordinary' people and the monarchy, with the bitchy and bullying "lackeys" (who seem to be the ones who reveal snobbishness by virtue of their connection to the monarchy) effectively acting as a barrier between the two groups. Hinnerke is the first real encounter that Klaus Heinrich and his sister have with anyone of the ordinary people and it has a big impact on him. Or does it? Will it be remembered later? What does suddenly become clear for Klaus Heinrich is that the people see him as different ? and name their own children after him (as Hinnerke himself had). The shoemaker incident comes back later in the book when Klaus Heinrich tells someone what the lackeys are like. He relates second hand experience as if he knows it first hand, and possibly doesn't even remember how he learned it, not unlike how prejudice can be handed down from parent to child. Most of Klaus Heinrich's experience is unreal, and I think that's what these two chapters (Hinnerke the Shoemaker and Doctor Uberbein) are set to portray.
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