I was 15 years old and everyday I love to draw the things that I see around me between the chores I must do around the House after school. My father makes it so that I don’t have to get a job. My brother which is younger than me also goes to school, and he plans to join the army as an officer like my father. I work on my studies and help my mom keep the house clean. At this point I wouldn’t call myself a great artist, but it keeps me occupied and I like to do it. While other German artists like to draw more art for people, I just draw art of whatever I see. Me and my brother like to eat together and talk during school. We talk about what we want to do in the future. My father talks about how things for the Kaiser are getting difficult. I’m nervous about my brother becoming a soldier but its natural for him to want to follow our father’s path. I hope that this doesn’t lead to anything that could get my brother and father hurt.  I don’t know what I want to do yet, but I don’t want to be an artist for my job. I want to be free with my art and must paint certain thing would take that away from me.

Most of what I based my characters information on is from the comic Berlin-City-Of-Stones where Muller liked art when she was young but when her brother dies, she stops drawing. I also based my information based off what was happening at the time which was the start of World War 1. Since she wants to make sure her brother is alright it would be understandable that she would be worried about him becoming a soldier, but since her father is a general, she would not be so worried that she would try to stop him. With her father being in the military it would be understandable if she knew more about what was happening with the military and what kind of state that the world was in.

“Origin of the War  :  Events & Statistics  :  Articles & Essays  :  Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919  :  Digital Collections  :  Library of Congress.” The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-rotogravures/articles-and-essays/events-and-statistics/origin-of-the-war/. Accessed 2 June 2023.