Gentlehands
...f hurt animals. Buddy grows deeper into this impression and soon enough has such a strong confidence that he begins to go against his own parents and friends when an evil rumor about grandpa Trenker evolves. As Buddy later finds out, this evil rumor was actually a horrific truth. Grandpa was an S.S. officer during WW II named “Gentlehands.” Even though it’s too late, Buddy finally realizes that even though grandpa was loving and generous towards everyone, he was still known as the evil S.S. officer “Gentlehands.” Buddy’s first impression of this loving man has now turned sour due to this horrific truth, which he had tried so hard to ignore. Another first impression that was misleading for Buddy was that of DeLucca’s. When Buddy first met DeLucca, he got the impression that DeLucca was some reporter that was trying to uncover some kind of secret money laundering scandal that the Pennington’s were involved with. Again, Buddy was misled. Later on in the novel he finds out that DeLucca is Jewish and had a cousin in WW II that died because of Gentlehands’ actions. This seems a little suspicious after he sees DeLucca’s car parked down on the beach in back of grandpa Trenker’s house considering grandpa was an S.S. officer in WW II. Then when DeLucca comes out and publishes a story in the newspaper, claiming grandpa to be the S.S. officer “Gentlehands”, Buddy is for sure convinced that DeLucca had the wrong man. As the novel leads on, it is uncovered that grandpa Trenker was that S.S. officer and that DeLucca was right after all. Buddy then feels bad for blaming DeLucca and informs him on the whereabouts of Gentlehands and Renner, his accomplice. Buddy now realizes that DeLucca was only a man trying to find the man who killed his cousin, not to ruin Buddy and his family’s life. Another deceiving first impression Buddy came across was from Skye Pennington. Now in the beginning of the novel Buddy has already met Skye and is going on a date that night with her. As he gets to know Skye, she seems to be very intellectual and articulate but Buddy does not think that he suits this “type” of girl. He starts to feel uncomfortable in the type of lifestyle Skye has and soon starts to question himself about whether or not he was “made” for her. Later on, he begins ...