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 Withdrawn.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"
O Hendricks is a keen observer of children who survived the
war.
O Hendricks has concluded that David could become violent.
○ Hendricks has decided that David is trange and wants to
get rid of him.
O Hendricks has lost the capacity to feel compassion for
orphaned children.