teh sunflower

The dying soldier wants to tell the narrator his story because he wants to clear his conscience and the narrator just happened to be at the right place at the right time. The dying soldier had worked as a SS in the German military and did some wrong doing to Jews and may be feeling bad about it right now. The soldier knows that his time is almost up and as a last wish he has the nurse find a Jew that will listen to him. The narrator is confused about why he is the one being told the story and is also confused about why the soldier starts his story from his childhood. The soldier seems to be telling the Jew his life story without really a reason and is including a lot of details that are not very relevant to the Jew.
I think the dying soldier realizes that all people are the same and all will die at one part of their lives. It doesn’t matter what group you’re from or belong to, everyone at the end will all end up the same. Now that he knows he is trying to make peace for what he has done and he thinks and can get it by telling his story to a Jew. I don’t know if the soldier is going to apologize to the narrator and thinks it will clear his conscience or he just wants some to be by his side will he dies. Right now the soldier is all alone in a death ward and knows his times is coming very soon. The Jewish prisoner may be the only person he could to be by his side while he dies.
The narrator is a little reluctant to listen to his story because he is still suppose to be with the group of slaves but instead he up in his old school that has been turned into a hospital. The guards don’t know that the nurse took him away and he fears that they will think he tried to escaped and get punished when they find him. The soldier notices that the narrator is worried about the noises outside but insures him the nurse is keeping watch from them. This makes me think that the soldier has something important to tell the Jew instead of just wanting company. I feel like that since he thought this out and talked it over with nurse he must have something really important to tell him. There must be a reason why the soldier and is telling the Jew his life story and must be leading to something of more importance.