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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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Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. ”-Bradley Whitford. This can be seen throughout the book as Yanek tries to survive all that is thrown at him by the prison guards and the Nazis from Prisoner B-3087 written by Alan Gratz. Yanek the main character is living on Krakusa street when one day the Germans attack their town and all of them around it, eventually more and more people are being taken to the camps.

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