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1. It suggests that Phil's father is someone who doesn't care what other people will think about him. He speaks his mind, and stands up for what he believes in. This chapter also shows what a big influence Lindbergh is on non-jews. He has given them such an opinion because of what he is getting from Hitler that they are viewing Jews as completely difference people even though they are no different from themselves.

2.The way Philip starts to talk about Mr. Taylor makes it seem as though he is trying to steal from the family. Right away Bess seems to be the suspicious one by saying "But who sent him? How did he spot our car?". Mr. Taylor in reality turns out to be a very helpful person. In this case stereotypes got the best of everyone, a man in Washington D.C. who seems to find you randomly and says he is a tour guide and expects you to just give over your car keys and that be the end.

3. I believe that is was an event of racism. The Roth family should have been able to keep the room, because they "had a reservation months ago". The manager was being racist by picking the Roths to be evicted out of all the other rooms that they could chose. It was ironic that a Jewish family was chosen when at the time most of society was anti-Semitic. Also the scene with the police officer, was another act of racism: Mr Roth says, "My wife has the paperwork in our bags. We get here today, we register, we occupy the room...and when we come back we're evicted because the room was reserved for somebody else". Although Mr. Roth has a very good explanation the police officer says, "But if somebody else reserves a room", by placing someone superior to them is being racist. Especially, when the Roths had reservations months in advance. I thought that is event was an act of pure racism against the Jewish people.

4.Yes, I do believe that Mr. Taylor is a Lindbergh supporter, however I do not believe that he was racist to Jews. When Mr. Roth would praise FDR by saying "A great man [FDR], and the people of this country turned him out of office, and just look what we got instead [Lindbergh]", Mr. Taylor would not respond and change the subject. When Mr. Roth did this countless times and each time Mr. Taylor would ignore his comment and return to what he was doing. Though I do not think that he was racist because he would of taken advantage of the Roth family which he did not. Mr. Taylor was hospitable to them, showing them: the sites, where to get cheap food, and preventing them from getting lost. I believe that Mr. Taylor was a Lindbergh supporter, but I do not believe that he was a racist, because he would of not offered his services in the first place.

5.In Philip's dream he is being chased along the sidewalk to Earls when he drops his stamp collection. When he inspects the stamps to see if any of them had been damaged he notices that the twelve Washington stamps had impersonations of Hitler replacing Mr. Washington.Also a black swastika was embedded on the geographical stamps. while the interpretation of this dream is different for every person, it is clear the there is fear in the dream for what might happen to. America.

6.The man at the Lincoln memorial saw Mr. Roth as a Jew first and foremost and seems to have some resentment towards Jews. Mr. Taylor saw him as an American as can be seen by his comment, "I expect every American does" on pg 82. . While what exactly the manager thought of Mr. Roth at first is opinion, it is clear that Mr. Roth is an expendable customer that he is not worried about or cares for. There is a very big difference in a person's view point of other people between the three. However Mr.Taylor's opinion is placed at the end of the chapter giving it more importance that the other two, as is to say, this is the right opinion have.