Chattahoochee River
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Chapter 7
I am amazed at how inhumane the prisoners acted in this chapter. Throughout the novel, I have noticed how the prisoners have slowly began to loose their humanity. In this chapter, it is evident that the prisoners have completely been destroyed both mentally and physically. For example, when the German workmen throw bread into the train, the prisoners behave like predatory animals. They will do whatever it takes to get some food, even if it means harming loved ones. This behavior has been caused by the nazis. By being forced to live in a place where there is no respect for others, the prisoners see no harm in behaving like animals.
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I don't think that they saw no harm what so ever in how they were acting towards each other. I'm sure they had to have some type of regret or uneasy feelings about things they did, things that happened in the heat of the moment, when they were feeling their lowest. Maybe I'm being a tad optimistic, but I don't think that people can completely lose all sense of their humanity.
ReplyDeleteCelina I think the reason they were so dehumanized was because of everything that had happened to them but I think that they also didn't notices how dehumanized they had become. They didn't know that they were acting like animals because there yearn for survival overpowered every emotional aspect.
ReplyDeleteI think, Celina, that putting the blame on the Nazis for turning the Jews into animal-like beings is correct, however, I want to point out the not all the Jews succumbed to this inhumane behavior. Elie loved his father so much and that kept him from turning into an empty shell with nothing on the mind except for food. It was Eli's love that kept him human.
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