When he walked to or from school, Ulrich studied the faces of the people on the street.Some looked concerned and cast their eyes downward as they walked, trying not to be noticed.His own parents had that look, like ghosts walking and wondering what had happened to them.The ones that bothered him were those who smiled, who acted like nothing was wrong. “Were they blind?” he wondered. Worse were those - who moved into the houses and took the businesses of their missing neighbors. They seemed too assured, too content. They may be Dutch, Ulrich thought, but they are the enemy, too. They were the ones who made the occupation easy. He hoped that when the war was over, the rightful owners would come back and throw them out on their ears.
School was not the same either. It was more than the missing students, though that was the biggest part of it. The teachers, who once seemed to know everything, were different, too.They seemed afraid to teach history, afraid that the authorities would not like what they said. They jumped when a student dropped a book.It was as if they all had to hold their breath.It was nearly spring. Already tulips(郁金香) were fighting their way out of the cold ground. How many more winters, springs, summers and falls would go by until they were free? Ulrich waited, and hoped that his friend Anne would soon come home.
1.When Ulrich says,“It's not our home anymore,”he means__________.
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