Episode 3 Question

• How old is Anton?

23 years old.

• What reason does Anton give for avoiding the theater? And why does he react this way?

At the theater he witness an act where a man is bowing his head in a submissive position while a women is shouting at him. The women was in a terrace, and perhaps that is the thing that catalyzed the recall of the memory. The memory of the assault that partially took place at the terrace of his home in Harleem.

• What area of medicine is Anton specializing in and why? What does this make the reader think about him?

Anesthesiology, because he is willing compromise  money for more time for himself. He wanted to able to leave at end of a surgery. And so can surgeons do, but surgeons are butchers according to him.

• What are Anton's thoughts about politics and why is this?

Anton cares very little for both national and international politics. He is rather neutral  before international politics. However, we the time to vote arrived in the Netherlands he had to vote, he had to pick a side. He initially was planning to vote for the liberal party simply because his friends are going to. His uncle was upset to hear that his nephew is choosing mistakenly. He resolved to asking Anton a simple question to decide which party he needs to vote for. He asked whether Anton is an optimist or a pessimist, because Anton answer by saying he is a pessimist he was advised to vote for the Social democrats and so he did.