Friedrich (novel) - Snow (1929)

Snow (1929)

With the introduction of winter, snow was everywhere. The book describes the snow being so deep only the "tip of Polycarp's hat showed." Of course, being a hyperactive four-year-old, the narrator wanted to play in the snow. However, his mother didn't allow him to - after all, she had a job to tend to. This job was never elaborated on greatly. The narrator watched as Friedrich went out and began playing around in the snow. At this, the narrator comments to his mother that Friedrich was playing in the snow, at which the mother replied that she was nearly done. Soon enough, Friedrich's mother came out and surprised Friedrich by throwing snow at him. The two then began sliding on ice that accumulated on the road. This made the narrator even more anxious to join in. When the Schneiders began building a snowman, the narrator was very distressed. He watched as the snowman was being made, already giving up hope that he would be able to join them. The mother replies that she is almost done with her work. Frau Schneider, Friedrich's mother, goes back into the house to get some materials for the snowman, apparently unsatisfied with how it turned out. Friedrich then romps around in Herr Johann Resch's flowerbed, causing Herr Resch to poke his head out of the window. Following this motion, the landlord yelled that Friedrich was a "dirty Jewboy".