Let's discuss the entire story in this forum because I am not making one for every chapter.
What to me this novel explains is that the real Monster were the children who were experimented on but Franz Bonaparta. Johan and Hermann Fuhr both need disturbed minds to brainwash them into hurting themselves or others to be effective at getting away. Yes, it is amazing as to how they observe and brainwash the other person with such a success. But they couldn't corrupt anyone. Children at most because they are innocent and easiest to manipulate even without trauma.
Franz Bonaparta wasn't simply erasing people's recollection to use them as tool even though he came up with the finding that when a person lose their identity; they will be easy to manipulate by being the one who give their identity back to make them loyal to you. Or giving them an identity to make use of what they are good at and make them excel in that aspect. Like we saw with Adolf Reinhart. Like how 511 Kinderheim made him the best assassin and Johan made him loyal to him. Those were thing Peter Capek and Johan mostly focused on.
What makes Franz Bonaparta more terrifyingly great is that without causing people to lose their memory, he took them to a place where they felt nameless. Because remember only 511 Kinderheim cause the memory loss but Herman Fuhr is actually his most impressive student before Nina took his place. He is as almost as good as Johan for what we got to read and he is actually carrying out the role of the leader the organization always wanted him to be but this time on his own term. Neither Johan nor Peter Capek was able to do anything to take away people's name their identity or suppress their emotion like Franz Bonaparta did. Peter did brainwashing on children and Johan manipulated psychopath/sociopaths/traumatized people.
Franz cause his father, Terner Poppe, a very well achieved and respected Czech German who helped the communist party established the one party system and was expected to become the president if he wasn't German to lose his identity being under 20 year old. He knows how to brainwash healthy mind by either creating opening unlike Johan who need most of the time criminal and serial killers. He was creating monster. One of the picture book and the village incident which they all killed each other right after a graduate student that came to live left. I don't think Hermann Fuhr was that person because remember as Herman Fuhr draws those picture books it was clearly hinting to Franz Bonaparta and not himself. Because the Awakening Monster is about child name being taken away by the Monster. He was the one who take their name away and here we saw he baited the child into saying his name (meaning 'creating a opening'). This mean that Graduate Student was Bonaparta. The picture by Hermann Fuhr about villagers being given fake name causing them to kill each others. It shows that a village that have important as to trade, manufacture, or cultural site have no identity. Thus, he used that as a tool to help insert these false ideas about each other to create insecurity that lead them to kill each other. As people don't really have anything to show their ambition or flaws or greed or generosity in a village that is already peaceful with nothing significant happening. So, they don't have much incident that pull out the true self of others thus, they really don't know each other.
This was a great addition to the story. |
