Stalin dies and Asher and his family are asked to move to Austria. Asher's, mother asks him if he wants to move to Vienna, Austria if the Rebbe asks his father too. Asher responds with no. Asher tells his mother that he would not know the people there or the language they have to speak and that he does not want to fly on a plane. Asher is afraid to go to a different country. Asher doesn't want to leave Brooklyn. Once Stalin dies, Asher's father is allowed to travel and spread word of the Jewish faith. This is why the Rebbe asks Asher's father to travel to Austria. It startles Asher that in a picture that Stalin is in a coffin with flowers behind him. To Asher, Stalin is an enemy, someone who had slain many Jews. Now, Stalin himself lay dead in a coffin, dead with all of the Jews that he had killed.

When Asher finds out that he must move to Vienna against his will, Asher becomes very ill and upset with the idea of leaving Brooklyn. Asher has a temperature sore throat. At night he dreams of the Rebbe in a land of trees. Asher is afraid to walk alone under the trees. I believe that Asher is foreseeing the future. Asher is seeing what Austria will be like. In this dream Asher pictures himself being afraid of the trees and how the Rebbe appears and disappears in the trees. This symbolizes how Asher feels about moving to Austria and how he does not want to go to Austria to live. It symbolizes an unfamiliar land and that something might happen to the Rebbe when Asher and his family are in Austria.

In the end of the chapter Asher draws Stalin, in a coffin. Asher again is using drawing as a type of therapy to show how he feels inside. His hand is trembling and he opens his note book and closes it, as to symbolize that what he had done was wrong and unjust. He slowly opened the note book to show that he had drawn Stalin in the coffin. This was the first drawing that Asher had made since he started school. The drawing has lead me to believe that Asher will again start to draw and express his feelings through drawing. Asher will depict his feelings about Vienna through art work in chapters to come.