Great Works of Literature II

This story was very deep and saddening. Borowski’s tone is somewhat sarcastic and serious at the same time as he starts off. It is as if he doesn’t want to describe the molded bread that was available in too much horror and so he takes an alternate route, but still gets his point across. Most of the time though, he was describing the horrific conditions in the camps and the gas chamber which was the ultimate end of one’s life. Borowski talked about the tiny area they inhabited and the type of events the prisoners would endure only to know that at the end, they were only going to face death in the eye not too long after. Borowski takes somewhat of a very serious tone as he describes a young, beautiful lady who asks him where she is going before jumping on the cart that heads to the gas chamber. Borowski turns to a critical tone and goes into a lot of depth and thoughts about his life and the lives of others in the camp. This ties in strong with Borowski’s own suicide and the fact that he thought of his straw mattress as the best thing in the world as he was laying on cool iron with his dreams and hopes soon to be shattered within a matter of minutes. The story was brilliantly depicted in telling us the story of the prisoners of the Holocaust.