Adolphus Hitler Biography for a Book Report about "The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler" by James Cross Giblin

As a child, Adophus Hitler was remembered, by his teachers, as "a thin, pale youth". At the age of a child, such an appearance was accompanied by an unwilling, non-ambitious mind, at least, in the case of classwork. You see, in most of the classes Adolf had [in later years of school {at Realschule}], he had either less-than-average grades (generally in history and geography) or had failed others (mathematics and French) with very little progress towards his father's hopes of him to succeed in universities and, afterwards, "a patriotic Austrian...for a career in the Empire civil service". Alois [father] would be better off 'dumping' those hopes, for at (most of) the time that Adolf had been such a youth, he had much, much higher hopes for in his powerful ambition of being a great artist. Although he had impressive talents in his artwork and was so ambitous (and determined) in it, to tell his father, though, was another thing.…