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Monday, January 19, 2015
When I read chapter three I noticed that there were a lot of ironies that Wiesel mentioned. Wiesel mentioned when he was marching he noticed an inscription that said " WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. Was there a single place where one was not in danger of death? I felt like somehow the Nazis were just playing with the Wiesel and the rest of the people. Then when the Pole gave a speech " Comrades...don't lose hope. You have already eluded the worst danger...", I just thought that this speech was ironic because most of people have already lost hope and they have not yet eluded the worst danger since danger was implemented everywhere. Also which danger was worse: to survive he selection or to pass the selection and suffer a didn't punishment? Adding to this Wiesel also said that the Pole's words were the " first human words". I think that all those words in the Pole's speech were a slow conclusion of death, but Wiesel probably thought that these were the first decent words, because they were more decent and less cruel than he and rest of the people had received since they arrived to Auschwitz.
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Hermelinda, I also noticed these same ironies as you. I also agree that most of the Jewish people had lost hope by this time, especially when they witnessed the babies and the crematorium. It really got my thinking about the "warning" the German Nazis put up, I don't know whether they were really just playing with them or for another reason.
ReplyDeleteYoaly, thank you for commenting. Yes, I also am not sure why they put the sign and it could be for multiple reasons. Perhaps, they did humor themselves a bit since at the end it describes men kissing girls and girls giggling as they were passing through the village to get to the new camp: Buna.
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