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Alan Gratz's Prisoner B-3087

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The theme of Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz is persevering and surviving can be difficult, especially when faced with oppression, discrimination, and inhumanity; for instance when Yanek, Thomas, and Isaac are hiding under floor boards of the barracks and hear Goeth approaching with his two man-eating guard dogs, Yanek makes a dangerous decision to quickly run out from the beams on the ground and lie to the commandant. The young boy in this story is so determined to survive, for example as Yanek is running away from the hut he is thinking to himself, “My heart was thumping, but it made me feel alive, and feeling alive made me want to stay alive” (93). This scene helps develop the overall moral of the text because Goeth and his gruesome animals
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