In the novel, PRISONER-B3087 by Alan Gratz, Othering is displayed as a cruel yet intentional practice. After being led and lined up in the soldiers' food hall, Yanek finds that, " For an hour we were their choir, our weak, raspy voices serenading them as they laughed and talked and ate - and the food they ate! ...When they were finished eating we were sent back to our barracks, where we found no food left for us." The nazis used humiliation and isolation to remind the prisoners or their polar-opposite situations. They ate the Lavish and plentiful food to mock how little food the prisoners were given, reminding them once again of how they are the other. when Yanek was brought to Birkenau concentration camp, they tattooed him, and he thought,