Kapitel 3

"Ehrlich gesagt, ehrlich gesagt! Ehrlich gesagt, Olli, wer nicht auf Deutschland trinken will, ist ein Kommunistenschwein, stimmt's? Also, Olli: Trink!" Ich trank. (18)

This is a paradox because of the circumsatances under which Olli was being rebellious. He knew he shouldn't be hanging out with the skinheads let alone drink with them. Yet he did it. The paradox comes later when Olli goes to the Unity party. There his dad talks out of both sides of his mouth. But the point is that Olli, because of the family he came from, should be involved in the conservation of the law. He hanging out with skinheads contradicts what he should be doing. The skinheads were people that wanted to keep Germany "pure" from outsiders or groups that might threaten their "Germanness". Because Germany was still reletively young from being one country they could pose a threat. Now that East Germany was no longer communist it opened the area up to the rest of the world, this would have angered the skinheads and Olli hanging out with them would not be beneficial to the cause for a unified and new Germany.