Chattahoochee River
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Chapter 7
During this chapter we witness how inhuman the prisoners act. Fighting over a piece of bread, hurting/killing a family member, etc. Elie seems surprised, or well perhaps not necessarily surprised but more, amazed at the behaviors of his fellow beings. Amazed at the changes, animal like changes maybe. Despite having gone through so much, they continue to demonstrate inhuman like behaviors because of what was done to them. It almost seems as if the German Nazis continue to push the limits of human beings with such acts. Because many of the citizens are no longer surprised to see them on trains. They are probably not even surprised to see their bodies and how sickly they all look. They are actually amused by throwing them pieces of bread and watching the prisoners behave like animals.
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I made the same observations about their inhumane behavior. Elie seemed appalled at the change and stunned that his people were capable of some of the things they were doing. I also thought what the German folk were doing as the train passed by was sick. That really irritated me.
ReplyDeleteYoaly, I noticed that too. The people treated them as if they were savage animals, no longer viewing them as humans. I think that once something becomes a "normalcy" people get used to the normalcy and don't question it. They blend in with the rest and they don't mind at all. I think that they were pleased to see the Jews suffer and fight for bread.
ReplyDeleteYoaly, I noticed that the Jews were treated as animals. The Germans seem to have gotten used to the fact that the Jews were valued less than them and seemed to enjoy the treatment done to them. The Germans as well as the Jews seem to have lost their humanity at this point. The Germans don't seem to put themselves in the shoes of the Jews to know how they felt about this scenario.
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