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Compare And Contrast This Way For The Gas Ladies And Gentlemen

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When we’re finding out something that shakes us and makes us upset we look for others to support us through these feelings. Sometimes when we share something terrible, we get a sympathetic response making us feel even worse. Even when we don’t know people in the streets on the cold December night we feel for them when the icy air blows by. To understand the lack of compassion for someone in pain is difficult, not thinking about how that would feel if it was us. However, in Reading the Holocaust we get multiple stories of the survivors experience and how they dealt with surviving the horrible camps in a nonfiction novel by Inga Clendinnen. Similarly we see the lack of compassion in “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen”, a more descriptive …show more content…

For example, in Reading the Holocaust German soldiers are ordered to remove the sick children from a children 's hospital to be deported to camps and essenaly die. The author points outs “ There are many other examples of the disruption of ‘normal’ moral codes” as the empathy for these children is completely gone. Similarly In “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” we see more of the sympathy and suffering of a child that gets stepped on and shot by a S.S. officer. The narrator watches “an S.S. man approaches calmly, his heavy boot strikes between her shoulders. She falls. Holding her down with his foot, he draws his revolver, fires once, then again.” it 's chilling how the officer does it without any compassion for this small child’s life. Likewise is seen in Maus II as Spiegelman’s father Vladek is beat in the camp because he was trying to communicate with his wife. The officer exclaims “Count the blows. If you lose count-I’ll start again”, this again shows us how ruthless these guards were for other humans. These text show the suffering, normalized brutality and lack of

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Borowski is very straight forward in the book This way to the gas, ladies and gentlemen because it emphasizes the dark nature of the events that happened in the Nazi concentration camps. In the short story “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen,” Borowski explains how a few people in the concentration camps would get extra food by taking it from the people who were going to be taken to the gas chambers without feeling bad about it. He also details how the infants were sent to their deaths as soon as they reached the concentration camps. Borowski does this because it lets the reader see how indifferent and cruel the S.S. Soldiers were to the people in the camps as well as how numb to the environment the people in the camps became.

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In Sam Wiesenthal’s novel, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness, the author puts readers into a scene of what he had experienced when he was forced into a concentration camp during the Holocaust. In this novel, Wiesenthal experiences many horrifying things in the concentration camp, especially death. In this particular scene of the novel, Wiesenthal encounters a dying Nazi soldier who asks for his forgiveness. As the dying soldier is speaking to Wiesenthal, he mutters, “ ‘I shall die, there is nobody to help me and nobody to mourn my death’ “ (Wiesenthal 27). Wiesenthal had to face a dilemma when this wounded soldier was asking him for help.

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Even through the book is about how bad the people were being treated I still think that kindness and generosity still exist during time of cruelty. I agree that the Holocaust was devastating but even though the Germans hated the victims they still made sure they had the necessities for life. They gave the prisoners a place to sleep and gave them food, keeping them alive. When Elie’s father was dying a officer told him, “I give you a sound piece of advice. Don’t give your ration to your old father.

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The novel Night by “Ellie Wiesel” is a survivor 's story of his experiences in the Holocaust. It covers his life before and during the concentration camps. In these times the path was not always straight and the overwhelming circumstances caused people to make decisions that were rushed or insensible. People got caught up in disbelief and chose not to take action where action would have saved their lives. These opportunities presented were missed or brushed aside and caused the death of thousands of people.

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The severely cruel conditions of concentration camps had a profound impact on everyone who had the misfortune of experiencing them. For Elie Wiesel, the author of Night and a survivor of Auschwitz, one aspect of himself that was greatly impacted was his view of humanity. During his time before, during, and after the holocaust, Elie changed from being a boy with a relatively average outlook on mankind, to a shadow of a man with no faith in the goodness of society, before regaining confidence in humanity once again later in his life. For the first 13 years of his life, Elie seemed to have a normal outlook on humanity.

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A memoir of the holocaust written by Ellie Wiesel, “Night” is a summarization of Wiesel’s personal experience as a young Jewish boy during World War II. Though the fear, anguish, and sorrow of the Holocaust may never truly be depicted properly from all angles, this short novel provides reader’s with a further look into the Holocaust from a Jewish prisoner point of view. Learning about this dark time in history is not ideal for many people, nonetheless it is very important that we must be aware of the world we live in. Learning through words written directly from a Holocaust survivor is a different experience than learning through statistics and books based on information released. Wiesel’s interpretation of the holocaust is factual information

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The Holocaust was a terrible time in the world’s history. Not many Jewish people made it out of the Holocaust alive, but Elie Wiesel not only made it through the dark years, but he also wrote a book and delivered a speech. Both of these things were meant to tell the world about the horrors that happened in the concentration camps and raise awareness about the Holocaust. The book Night tells us what Elie’s journey throughout 1943-1945 (the time of the Holocaust) was like with Nazis controlling the Jews. In the speech Perils of Indifference, Elie explains why it is dangerous to not have an opinion on certain topics.

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