What can you infer about Hendricks based on the following
paragraph? "Hendricks glanced down. The boy was strange, saying
very little. Withdrawn. But that was the way they were, the children
who had survived. Quiet. Stoic. A strange kind of fatalism gripped
them. Nothing came as a surprise. They accepted anything that came
along. There was no longer any normal, any natural course of things,
moral or physical, for them to expect. Custom, habit, all the
determining forces of learning were gone; only brute experience
remained"