1. "However, the new house had only three floors: a top floor where all three bedrooms were and only one bathroom, a ground floor with a kitchen, a dining room and a new office for Father (which, he presumed, had the same restrictions as the old one), and a basement where the servants slept". The new house is described in comparison with the old house and is compared to the old house as well.
2. The new house, compared to their house in Berlin is very small and barely has any rooms in the house unlike in Berlin. There is also no other houses or shops around the new house and it is just surrounded by grass and trees. This is an example of juxtaposition because the author compares the two houses and points out their differences and what made the house in Berlin so nice for Bruno compared to the new house.
3. Bruno's reaction and discussion of the new house is taken by his mother in an unfriendly and angry way because Bruno tries to convince his mother that moving was a big mistake and that they should leave in the morning and she is unhappy about this and orders Bruno to go upstairs and pack.
Maria takes Bruno's reaction and discussion as if they were in the old house. She doesn't say anything about how she feels about it. All she says is how important Bruno's fathers job is and that is why they had to move here. This is ironic because both characters mean that they should be here and need to be at the new house because of the father's job but ironically none of them want to be there themselves but have to go along with it like Bruno. It is also ironic that Bruno is complaining about his new house when Jews are being marched into a concentration camp a few kilometres away.
4. I do feel empathetic towards Bruno's new home because of the same reasons Bruno feels. If I had to move to a new home without a say in the matter and being forced to go and then the new home being very boring, small and uninviting unlike the old house I may feel very uneasy about the whole thing.
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