Under A Cruel Star Chapters 4-6 Analysis
Heda musters up enough courage to escape the concentration camp, but the journey afterwards requires even more bravery and strength. Numerous people in Prague turn Heda away, once she arrives back in the city. These people are old friends and neighbors, but, for the most part, they will not risk their lives to save her and this cruelty seems to negatively affect Heda most of all.
When the war comes to Prague, Heda doesn’t hesitate to volunteer. Her time spent tending to the ill in the ghettos has prepared her for Red Cross service. The fact that she is the first to volunteer for the covert operation of transporting weapons to the Resistance speaks to her unselfish bravery. The beauty of nature continues to feature prominently. When Prague is liberated, spring is in full bloom. Heda often finds sanctuary in nature.
She retreats to the forest for its trees and birds, the comfort offered more consistent and pure. After the war, crueltyand indifference are manifest. There is the man at her family’s vacation home who finds her presence a bother and Heda continues to encounter Anti-Semitism, despite the war being over. At the end of Chapter 6, she learns that Rudolf is alive, and again finds joy in her life. Heda, to celebrate, again turns to the natural world, and picks flowers.
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