The White Rose Han Character Analysis

A character is a very important component in literature. The narrator is able to create a character by his personal experience and his imagination. To make a character come alive, the development of a character is critical. A skillful writer could use various elements or skills to build a vivid character, such as creating internal or outer conflicts and describing character’s actions or thoughts. They stimulate the readers’ imagination and generate sympathetic response. In the biography of The White Rose Munich 1942-1943, Inge Scholl makes Hans as a round dynamic character through his early youth, his conflict and decision, his reason of making the decision, and his qualities that are shown by his action and thought.

Hans’s early youth is affected

Hitler’s regime finally shows its color; everything starts to against Hans belief, then a conflict breaks out unavoidably; Hans has no choice but has to make his decision which is the rebellion. The Youth group is a miniature of Hitler’s regime. Hans quickly finds out that the Youth group is not the same as what he thinks. On the contrary, it is completely opposite to his thought, “[the] official view demanded discipline and conformity down to the last detail, including personal life”. Everything has to follow a specific pattern, in other words, has to follow Hitler’s idea. Nazi government does not want any individual thinking to exist, and that is a huge difference from Hans ideal: “[the] individual should enrich the life of the group with his own contribution of imagination and ideas”. However, it is not allowed, for example, when Hans is the troop leader, he and his teammate sew a special banner for their own team, nevertheless the leader tells them, “You don’t need a banner of your own. Use the one prescribed for everyone.” The conflict has broken out: “Rebellion was stirring in Hans’s mind.” After Hans reads the letters from “the sermons of Count Galen, Bishop of Munster”, he is “deeply agitated”. He finally discovers a way to against the government which is to write leaflets to tell people the truth, to wake the people; there is a discussion that truly stimulates