Chattahoochee River
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Ch 7
In this chapter when Elie said that when they through bread in the wagon all the Jews started to attack each other I thought about how dehumanized they were being described. He also said they threw the dead into a wagon like a sack of flour when they died. Those events make me think that because they aren't treated like humans, Elie and others don't think they they are actually as human anymore, emotionally.Everything that Elie describes about the inmates and himself make it sounds like he has given up on the fact that he is human and they have too.
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Arlene, I think that Elie somehow did think this way. The more he believed that his companions were no longer humans but savages he probably thought the same of himself. I also it this scene in a different way other than them showing dehumanization, they showed a will and a desire to survive. They also showed that they were extremely underfed.
ReplyDeleteArlene, I also noticed how dehumanized the Jews seemed when they were thrown bread and then beat each other for it. The towns people who threw the bread at them were also dehumanized themselves, for they were not giving bread to them as a kind gesture, but instead gave it to them to watch the Jews beat themselves for it. This just shows how everyone at the time of this was losing their humanity.
ReplyDeleteSo it's almost like how they were treated transferred into their own actions towards their fellow Jews? They stopped considering their relatives and friends a long time ago, many of them. The apathy and "survival of the fittest" mentality seemed to become an epidemic among them as a result of the initial abuse and atrocities inflicted onto them.
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