Explain the significance of the story’s title, “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.” What seems strange about it?
The title is significance is because this shows the life of people in the campus, the relationship between the people’s life and the death that people in the campus, and the relationship between the prisoner and the poisonous.
What did you learn from this story that you did not previously know about life in Nazi concentration camps?
“We lie against the rails in the narrow streaks of shade, breathe unevenly, occasionally
exchange a few words in our various tongues, and gaze listlessly at the majestic men in
green uniforms, at the green trees, and at the church steeple of a distant village.” I learn that the people that in the campus have a terrible life, and how the prisoner scare about them, can not eat enough and can not rest really good. I have more clear about the life in the campus during that period.
Zijie,
I am afraid that you haven’t fully read or understood Borowski’s story. The concentration camp that it describes is a death camp. The narrator is a prisoner who has to participate in ushering the Jews to their death. Why do you think the title uses the term “ladies and gentlemen” in connection with people being sent to the gas chambers?