Please respond to three of the following questions. Remember to compose your answers in complete sentences and to ground your ideas in specific details from the text where appropriate. Your responses should be posted by Wednesday, May 6th.
- What did you learn from this story that you did not previously know about life in Nazi concentration camps?
- This story can be described as a kind of “initiation story” for the narrator. How is he changed or transformed by the events of the narrative?
- Describe an example of dehumanization in the text. What about this moment made a particularly strong impression on you? Why?
- A tall, grey-haired woman who has just arrived on the “transport” whispers, “My poor boy,” to our narrator. What does she mean?
- “Are we good people?” asks our narrator. What is this exchange about? What do you think?
- Explain the significance of the story’s title, “This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.” What seems strange about it?
