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what little spare time he had, Frederick began to study
borrowed books from Dr. Becker and read for an hour each
week he bought the town's newspaper, the Beatrice Optimist, and slowly worked his way through it, dictionary by his
listened closely to conversations at the tavern, eager to grasp the language's strange
was an assiduous
year after their arrival in America, he had amassed a fair vocabulary and was rarely caught out by the army of irregular verbs that lurked in
for all his hard work, Frederick had no gift for
the dour rigidity of his native tongue, its anarchy unnerved
was always a glimmer of apprehension in his eyes when he spoke, as if every sentence were a high wire from which he was liable to topple at any
unease made him retreat from the perils of
adopted a cautious, formal mode of speech, although this wasn't just because of his fear of opaque colloquialisms: English was the language of his family's
deserved to be spoken with respect, not sullied with lazy elisions and cheap
he listened to the alien words form themselves in his mouth, his heart would swell with pride.
Frederick loved
loved its big open spaces, the sunsets that drenched the evening sky in blistering
loved the warmth of the
all, he loved the smell of promise that hung in the
, he could see now, was slowly suffocating under the weight of its own
America the future was the only thing that
turned his back on everything that had gone before, and looked ahead into the bright lights of the young
a man could reinvent
determination to learn a new language was his own path toward such
became just an echo of his past.
was not so
's birth, rather than directing her eyes toward the future, instead turned her gaze back toward the home she had left
changed everything that she thought she
was now refracted through the prism of a new mother's
stared down at Joseph as he slept, and knew that she would be destroyed if he ever left
, remorse flooded through her as she thought about her parents, alone now on the other side of the
had been her idea to come to America, but now she began to wish that they had never
she watched Frederick eagerly immerse himself in his new country, she kept her homesickness a guilty
her husband, Jette learned scarcely a word of
everyone in the town still spoke German, and she found her old language a welcome comfort in the face of the strange parade of foreign customs outside her front door.
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