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    The document provides a summary and analysis of Roald Dahl's short story "A Fine Son". It notes that the story was written after Dahl witnessed atrocities in World War II and discusses how the story subtly reveals that the newborn baby is Adolf Hitler without an overt plot twist. The summary describes the story's narrative of a mother desperately hoping her newborn son survives after her previous three children died, and reveals near the end that the baby is Adolf Hitler.

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    The document provides a summary and analysis of Roald Dahl's short story "A Fine Son". It notes that the story was written after Dahl witnessed atrocities in World War II and discusses how the story subtly reveals that the newborn baby is Adolf Hitler without an overt plot twist. The summary describes the story's narrative of a mother desperately hoping her newborn son survives after her previous three children died, and reveals near the end that the baby is Adolf Hitler.

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    The document provides a summary and analysis of Roald Dahl's short story "A Fine Son". It notes that the story was written after Dahl witnessed atrocities in World War II and discusses how the story subtly reveals that the newborn baby is Adolf Hitler without an overt plot twist. The summary describes the story's narrative of a mother desperately hoping her newborn son survives after her previous three children died, and reveals near the end that the baby is Adolf Hitler.

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    A Fine Son Plot/Description

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    The document provides a summary and analysis of Roald Dahl's short story "A Fine Son". It notes that the story was written after Dahl witnessed atrocities in World War II and discusses how the story subtly reveals that the newborn baby is Adolf Hitler without an overt plot twist. The summary describes the story's narrative of a mother desperately hoping her newborn son survives after her previous three children died, and reveals near the end that the baby is Adolf Hitler.

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    A fine son

    Plot/Description
    This most remarkable thing about this story, I think, is the timing. I don't
    want to give the surprise away to those of you who haven't read it, but just
    think about the fact that Dahl was able to write this incredibly
    compassionate and and yet subtly ironic story (about a woman who has
    lost three children in the last eighteen months and desperately wants her
    newborn to survive) after witnessing countless horrible atrocities in World
    War II. It's amazing. It's also worth noting that this story, unlike many
    others, does not have a surprise "twist" at the very end. There is a shocking
    revelation, but the reader arrives at it gradually throughout the story.
    Spoiler Warning! The narrative begins immediately after the birth of a
    baby, a boy. The doctor tries to reassure the mother Klara that the child is
    healthy and will survive, but she has lost all hope after her other three
    children have died. We also learn that she and her husband, Alois, have
    recently moved to this new city and that he is an overbearing, unsatisfied
    sort of man. The doctor manages to convince her that her new son is all
    right and she decides to name him Adolphus, or Adolf for short. She finally
    gets to hold her little Adolf and falls in love with the beautiful child. Her
    husband arrives (Note: the doctor addresses him as "Herr Hitler"!!) and
    comments on the boy's small size. The doctor pleads with him to give his
    wife some needed support. He finally kisses her and tries to comfort her.
    "He must live, Alois," she cries. "He must, he must... Oh God, be merciful
    unto him now..." Of course, we know that the very infant whose life she
    prays for is none other than Adolf Hitler, the man responsible for millions of
    deaths and years of suffering in World War II.

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