Summary

In chapter VII, one of the students, Frederik, is forced to take his Dannebrog, the Danish flag, and put it on the pile. He and his parents are highly patriotic. In turn, Frederik forces “lady William” to give up his diary (53). Then, he makes Anna-Li, a Korean girl adopted by Danish parents, give up her adoption papers. She makes Little Ingrid give up her “new crutches” (55). She tells Henrik he has to give up his “snake in formaldehyde” (55).

Chapter VIII begins with Henrik reluctantly giving up the snake corpse, which his father had gone to great lengths to secure for the school’s science teachers. That morning, Pierre had yelled about the futility of dating and marriage to Agnes and Ursula-Marie. This angered them, but Agnes remembers that Pierre himself had dated a couple of other people before; at first, she is amused...