When we first watched Rudy and his friends play soccer, it is implied that Tommy Muller was not very popular and was not liked at all. Rudy did not seem to care much about him and criticized Tommy behind his back.
Liesel chimed in, "And he's bad at soccer."
"The worst."
-pg. 49
Later after a particularly bad day at Hitler's Youth, Rudy steps in to try and protect Tommy who cannot hear the correct orders given by the teenage Nazi, Franz Deutscher. (-pg. 268-269) As a result, both Rudy and Tommy are forced to do tough drills for a long 15 minutes. Throughout this whole ideal, Rudy does not complain once about Tommy. Afterwards, Rudy is recounting this story to Liesel and even when Tommy declares that the whole affair was his fault, Rudy cuts him off implying that there is no blame on Tommy.
"It's all my fault," but Rudy waved him away, somewhere between sentence and smile..., but Rudy broke the sentence completely and pointed at him.
"Tommy please." There was a peculiar look of contentment on Rudy's face. Liesel had never seen someone so miserable yet so whole-heartedly alive."
-pg. 270
These actions of placing no blame truly show Rudy's maturity. A year before, Rudy probably would have behaved as he had with Liesel when she blocked his shot; a snowball thrown in the face.
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