![]() ![]() He decided that he should remain locked up until he changes his mind about leaving the town. He shut Hans away in his workshop at the factory and has forbidden all visits except for Gertrude, who fed him. When Hans declared the news to father, he was furious, his anger was terrifying. Anna was devastated and didn't understand the boy's obsession, but she decided to help him achieve his dreams. ![]() The factory also started to become more fameous, more and more people around the world knew the name "Voralberg".Īll this time however Hans still thought about mammoths and on Jnauary 5th 1938, he told Anna about his desire to leave Valladilene and travel looking for the prehistoric beasts. To help Gertrude with her arthritis Hans designed an automated kitchen. They still didn't exchange much conversation, but they now had a thing in common, the factory. He also presented her with a nice little ballerina to replace the broken mammoth.įour years passed and Hans' relationship with his father became less tense. When Anna returned for the Christmas, once they were alone, the boy couldn't stop talking, words just leaped from his mouth. When his sister finally decided to leave for the University he didn't talk to her for a week. In secret he destroyed Anna's mammoth robot. One day Anna aproached Hans and told him about the fact that father wants to send her to the University as she had passed all the exams very well and that she really wants to go because she loves studying. He got his own little workshop on the first floor, crammed with odds and ends, unfinished robots and designs. Later Anna tried to convince Hans to obey father as it could be his chance to do something constructive with his life. He wasn't responding which sent father in a rage. On February 11th 1933, father proposed a job position at the factory to Hans if he stops making his own little devices. Later Hans continued to make more mechanical mammoths for the rest of the family, he also started upgrading them, they could wak, raise their trunks and wag their tails. His father was proud of his son's achievement. On April 14th he made his first gift for Anna, a small robot mammoth with a trunk that raises and falls. He continued to do so for the next month and Hans seemed to enjoy the work, he became less capricious. On January 12th 1932, father took Hans to the factory. Hans will remain phisically and mentally impaired. Unfortunately the French doctors have only confirmed the diagnosis. Then, on May 30th, 1931 Rudolph decided to take his son to Paris for new tests, as he believed that only in the French capital he will find truly competent doctors. Thos news crushed Hans' father, as he was shocked to have a "retard" as a son.Īfter a year Hans' situation showed no signs of improvement, neither in therms of Hans' mental health, nor his father's attitute toward him. Not long after he turned 11, after an inspection from a doctor, Hans was reported to have been stunted phisically and mentally. After that he started scribbling almost obsessively, constantly trying to draw more mammoths. On October 20th he tried to draw a mammoth for the first time. ![]() He began to fantasize and get lost in his thoughts very often. He spoke little and was addicted to Anna's proximity, becoming nervous if she wasn't with him. He was taciturn and solitary, not lively and cheerful like before. He went for a short walk in the garden, but still was very weak.Īfter a month since he got out of the coma he still didn't say much and had difficulty moving. On June 2nd he left the house for the first time since his accident. Something was however different about the boy, under the watch of the doctors he started his recovery. He regained conciousness on May 20, 1930, and the first thing he said was the name of his sister Anna. Hans fell into a coma which lasted a week. Unfortunately he slipped and fell, hitting his head hard on the floor. Despite his siter's warnings he decided to climbe up to get it. While showing the cave to Anna, Hans spotted a Mammoth Doll standing on a peak in the cave. When he was a 10-year-old boy, on May 13, 1930, he discovered a cave in the mountains, a marvelous cavern with ancient paintings on the walls. ![]()
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