- What did you learn from this story that you did not previously know about life in Nazi concentration camps?
I learned that even children were not spared from being dehumanized, and from the horrors of the Holocaust. There were many extremely disturbing scenes in the text, but the most striking and painstaking was reading about children being brutalized. - Are we good people?” asks our narrator. What is this exchange about? What do you think?
I believe this exchange was the process of the narrator being desensitized to the horrors of killing people. The fact that I’m the text, the narrator said he wanted the people to hurry up and be killed off in the gas chambers so he could go rest was a signal that he was not completely emotionally connected to the lives of the people that were being stripped away, and their suffering. Him asking this question was a realization of this disconnection, and he asked in order to see if this feeling resonated with Henri. I believe this was just one step in the process of the narrator being desensitized to human suffering and death.
