Book Paper - "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell

The book written by the author Susan Campbell called "The Boy Who Dared", is a interesting book about WWII, focusing more on the Hitler Youth. The Hitler Youth were a large number of students going into middle school who were taught and convinced that Hitler was a good person whom should be looked up to and should always stay by his side. The main character of the story, Helmuth Hubener did not think the same. As this book is based on a real life story, it was interesting to get to know this character and understand what he did and why he did it. Although the book does not display what were the reasons behind his actions, the suspensive and interesting storyline kept me latched on allowing me to finish reading the book in only a few days. But since the story does not explicitly describe the character but has more of a narrative feel to it, I went ahead and researched this young boy who rebelled again Adolf Hitler in WWII. He was only 17 years old and was the youngest person to be sentenced to death during that time being caught by German soldiers whilst setting up pamphlets around town for people to inform themselves on why Hitler was not a good person. The fact that he was German is the best part in my opinion. He even tried to convince other people in and outside of the Hitler Youth to stand by his side and do what the right thing was and bring down Hitler because of causing war and damage to other people. Others did not follow him just because of the fear they had for Hitler and that makes me think why people standed by Hitler's side so much if they feared him? He was supposed to be the good man of the story so having fear to him is a little confusing. Anyways, with suspicions about Hitler's ways, Helmuth Hubener proceeded to his rebellion against Hitler but failed instanstly. Even though he failed, he tried his best and is an admirable character since he never gave up on what his mission was and had a sense of patriotism because he was not doing this to satisfy his own needs but he knew that Hitler was not a benefit to the German people so he was doing this for the wellness of his country. The worst part is everyone else just saw him as a pest and nobody even realized he was sent to prison, concentration camps and later guillotined. Other than this interesting character the book has to offer, the story has no reocurring themes nor symbols. The author, Susan Campbell directed most of her books and short stories to the younger audience, which makes the book such a fast one to read but also gives it that intriguing feeling of wanting to read more. The book it self is an interesting way to learn about the Hitler Youth but can also be considered redundant since there are countless other WWII and Holocaust books out there but just because it focused on the Hitler Youth made it a bit more unique. It would have been nice to have the author include more depth into her style of writing like including those missing literary devices but at the same time cannot be blamed because it is not a book meant to have a high level of complexity. Overall, it is a reccomendable book for one who has spare time on their hands but it is not a must read book which deserves a lot of praise.