The Librarian
In the text, Trudi works as a librarian. She herself also collects stories, thereby ironically becoming a library herself. The narrator comments that: “they kept coming back—to borrow books, they liked to believe—yet, what they really came for, even those who feared Trudi Montag, were the stories she told them about their neighbors and relations."
Irony of Expectations
People don't expect much from Trudi due to her height, and disability, and wrongly underestimate her. However, while most characters are paralyzed by fear and fail to act against the injustice they see around them, Trudi is the one who actively helps people and makes a difference.
Irony of sight
The narrator comments that ironically, although the bright yellow stars the Jewish people are forced to wear are the only color in the street, residents pretend to not see them: "In the bleak winter streets, those yellow stars often were the only color, and yet, many people pretended not to see them". Here Hegi is commenting on how passive people were in Germany during World War II. Although many people felt Jewish people were being mistreated, they did not speak up.
