Compare And Contrast This Way For The Gas Ladies And Gentlemen

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

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