In the book, Elisha is shown as a seemingly nice person, but is in no way innocent. Elisha had lost his innocence the moment he lost his ignorance of, or gained knowledge of violence. In a sense, the Holocaust took Elisha’s innocence. Elisha lost his sense of happiness and ignorance of violence, and was then turned towards violence towards those whom hurt him. Although Elisha had seen all of this pain and torment, I feel he was still somewhat innocent. His learning to maim and kill was solely to help get back at those people that caused pain to him and everyone he ever knew or loved. Elisha did still maintain some innocence up until the moment he pulled the trigger at the end of the book. Until that moment of the story, through his entire hesitant and consideration stages, Elisha still held onto that one little bit of innocence he had left in his life. The moment he pulled the trigger, that act of violence removed all of his inn

ocence. Regardless of whether or not he pulled the trigger, someone would have lost their innocence in the kidnapping murder. If Elisha had not pulled the trigger, someone else in the house would have. The violence of someone else in the action would have caused them to lose their innocence. All of these events caused a transformation in Elisha. Throughout the story, Elisha does nothing but consider his options in the matter. Elisha thinks of what he could do, and why he was doing what he was doing. All of these thoughts showed a strong feeling of care for life outside of his, and a strong presence of innocence.

The moment Elisha pulled the trigger, as said before, he lost his innocence. Losing his innocence caused Elisha’s life to change completely. Elisha went from a man who though, cared, and held strong considerations to a cold blooded killer. Elisha’s killing of an innocent man whose last words were Elisha’s name forever maimed Elisha’s soul, making him a very cold, scared man.

K. at a point tells his assistants to get lost, and not to come back. When they go outside, K. locks the door behind them. The assistants start knocking at the door and whining to be let back in, jumping up and down on the stone fence in front of the windows, whereupon K. simply closes the curtains. K. speaks to Frieda, about whether she was happier at the Gentlemen's Inn and with Klamm, rather than here with him. Frieda tells K. that the assistants are always trying to get to her, and always try to get in between her and K. She gets up and looks out the window at them and feels sorry for them despite what she just finished saying. She confesses that despite their antics, she is attracted to and charmed by them very much, suggesting that they have been sent from Klamm himself. K. This leaves K. in complete despair and regret for treating the nice assistants so poorly, and for allowing the assistants enough time alone with Freida for her to care about and like them, even though the only reason they act how they do is in silent protest of their distaste for K. This is another reason why K. would regret his maltreatment of the assistants.

When K. arrives in the village late in the and is allowed by the landlord to sleep on a straw mattress in the bar, Schwarzer gives him a lot of guff about needing permission of Count WestWest to stay either in the village or at the Castle. When K. tells him that he was summoned to the castle as a land surveyor, neither Schwarzer nor the other peasants in the Inn believe him, and write him off as a mere scamp. Schwarzer then calls up Fritz to find if K. really is t

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