Trudi

Trudi understood that the only real reason that Georg and her became friends, and pretty much continued to be friends because of their similarity in their difference. She also realizes that their friendship won’t last forever, because unlike Trudi’s difference, Georg’s is only temporary and easily changed. Georg wants to be accepted by the other boys, however, and this is why he asks Trudi to cut his hair. Trudi almost hates him for this because asking to cut his hair is almost like saying he does not want to be part of the ‘losers’ club anymore, he wants out. However, Trudi wanted him to be happy and to be liked by others almost as if she is vi

“When Georg clambered into the willow, took off his swim trunk and draped it across a branch, she closed her eyes for a moment, not from embarrassment, but rather from compassion that – in his efforts to be like the other boys—he went further than they would have. The boys screamed with laughter and applauded. George grinned and waved both arms at them. Without his clothes he looked thin, defenseless, endangered even. His hair was trimmed so short you could see the bones of his skull”(145).

As a cause of Georg’s childhood hair episode, he is constantly seeking to be accepted in every aspect. Georg knows what it is like to be rejected like Trudi, and strives to never again be in that position, he despises the pain and agony that came along with being ridiculed and looked down upon. Such a deep yearn he has for acceptance that “in his efforts to be like the other boys – he went further than they would have”(145), he takes

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