Analysis Of Fire I See A Fire By Mrs Schächter

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“Fire, I see a fire!” Those words were uttered by Mrs. Schächter on her train ride to the Birkenau concentration camp. At first, people thought that she was hallucinating from the fact that her husband and two older sons had been accidentally deported from her ghetto before her on accident. On the ride, many people tried to console her, to try and tell her that it was all in her head. The cries stopped for a time, but started up again a few hours later. At this point, the other people on the train themselves were tired, hungry and dehydrated. The cries only made their moods worse. In front of her own ten year old son, they proceeded to beat her, with forces that could have been fatal. Blows to the head that did eventually made her quiet down,