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Character Analysis
The Zookeeper's Son
Have you ever watched a Winnie-the-Pooh cartoon and wondered where all the other humans are? Why is Christopher Robin the only boy in the Hundred Acre Wood?
Maybe it's because everyone else has been killed during the war.
Sorry to shatter your childhood, but little Ryś—that's pronounced "Reesh"—in The Zookeeper's Wife is basically a World War II-era Christopher Robin.
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Everyone his family meets is either on the run or killed during the war, which means his only friends are the animals in the zoo. He is friends with a badger, a hamster, and a pig named Moryś. Even his nickname, Ryś, means "lynx" in Polish (1.31).
Even the animals aren't permanent playmates for poor Ryś.
Badger disappears. Hamster drinks himself to death.
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And Moryś becomes bacon.
It's so bad that Antonina often frets about the psychological effects all this violence and loss will have on her son. She wonders, "How do you retain a spirit of affection and humor in a craz