Why do you think Pinard sat down and wept after chipping pieces off the Berlin Wall? Explain what the wall meant to Pinard and the people who gathered around him to clap.

1. inard wept and the people cheered because the Berlin Wall was finally torn down and East and West Germany was once again united as one country. When the communist took over East Germany and built the wall, many fled rather than live under communist rule.

2. Pinard sat down because after so many long years the German people were finally one and it was very hard to think about the great victory of being able to reunite with their family and run for freedom without being killed. The wall symbolized oppression and the wall coming down meant that Pinard and the German people won by tearing down the wall that symbolized death, evil and hate.