In this chapter, Tsura is at Rosenstrasse, outside of the Jewish community center. She is standing within the crowd of civilians protesting against the holding of Jews in Rosenstrasse. When Tsura sees the Christian wives of Jewish men protesting against the guards, she feels regret and anger as nobody protested the holding of her family and the Roma at Marzahn. Alex is inside the center, worrying about what will happen to him, his father, and all the other Jews that are being detained at Rosenstrasse. Kizzy is also inside the center, taking leadership and trying to help herself and other kids including Ari. Elise and Ruth are with Marko and Tsura outside. Elise is mad at Ruth because Ruth won’t pay attention to her and is more concerned about Tsura.   

 

     Another event to note is that Ruth and Elise believe that Tsura is Alex’s girlfriend. This causes Tsura to be suspicious of her brother's relationship with Alex and also causes her to discover that Marko is gay. Marko has some hope that Tsura will accept him for who he is, no matter if he likes boys or girls, but she does not. She shows disappointment and disgust. She is very angry with Marko because she realizes that Marko sent Kizzy to the hospital to deliver Duerr, to ensure that Marko and Alex could be together in secret, causing Kizzy to get caught.

    

 

     Throughout Train, and specifically in this chapter, author Danny Cohen examines the theme of having empathy and looking out for the people that you know or don’t know. The courage that the characters share in Train is what keeps each of them going. When Marko becomes selfish, it breaks the only thing they had, trust, eventually leading to the death of a friend. This mistake by Marko is an example of an unsuccessful risk. Marko risks his cousin’s safety for his own, which leads to her death. Another risk that affects the characters is when Alex and Kizzy are stuck at Rosenstrasse, under the control of the Nazis. They hold them there for a couple of days. Without knowing what was going to happen to them, they have to wait for something to happen. Although people knew where they are, people have no idea of what the condition is like inside the community center, and they just assume that they were fine. However, this is incorrect because the Nazis never treated them well, and had always been cruel. Unfortunately, the conditions are poor and result in them having to go to the bathroom in the closets. Kizzy decides to take a risk after being fed up with the condition at Rosenstrasse. She decides to leave Felix and Esther behind and try to escape.

       

     At the start of the chapter, Ruth and Elise’s relationship is already changed, putting them between each other with the conflict between them and Alex and Viktor. We see even throughout this chapter that Ruth is invested in Alex’s situation and kind of neglects Elise as a friend. Ruth is just trying to do what she thinks is best for Alex but because of that has not been paying a lot of attention to Elise and ignoring her problems. Elise gets jealous of all the attention that Ruth receives from Tsura and Marko. She is annoyed that Marko doesn’t recognize her but is intrigued with Ruth and what she has to say. Elise gets excited when she knows information about Alex and what he was doing at the garden but was dismayed when she Ruth didn’t show interest. Tsura’s reacting to Marko being gay shows what not having empathy is. She states, “It’s sickening Marko!” Tsura does not try to understand what Marko is going through, she just immediately turns against him and his feelings for Alex and calls him sick, just like the rest of their society. She can not respect him because being gay was rare and “disgusting” in the mid-1900s.