How It All Goes Down
How Mother Took Credit for Something That She Hadn't Done
- Several weeks pass and Bruno realizes he needs to entertain himself or he'll go crazy, so he decides to make a tire swing and heads outside to find an adult to help him. Unfortunately, the only one around is creepy Lieutenant Kotler (the blond soldier).
- Kotler calls Pavel (the Jewish potato peeler) and orders him to get a tire from the storage shed; Pavel drags the tire to the oak tree and helps Bruno set it up.
- Bruno swings too high and falls off, hitting his head and cutting his leg open.
- Worry not, though, Pavel to the rescue—he carries Bruno to the kitchen and cleans and bandages his wound.
- Bruno worries that he'll have to go to the hospital, but Pavel assures him he won't and reveals that he's a doctor himself.
- Bruno doesn't believe him, though—this guy is a potato peeler, and potato peelers are not doctors.
- Bruno's mom comes into the kitchen and tells him to leave; he overhears her telling Pavel not to tell the Commandant that he cleaned Bruno's wounds.