Ladies and Gents.. To the Gas Chamber
December 9, 2010 by mlongo
For some reason, when reading this, it reminded me of a show I once watched. I forgot the name of the show, but the theme was psychology and it was about giving situations where people are abusing their girlfriends in public, and the point was to see if people around them would notice and take duty into getting involved.
When we were talking about in class about the narrator and what his feelings were during the Holocaust, it reminded me of the limited power he was in. Many people did not get involved with a relationship where the man is abusing his girlfriend in public when he looked like a strong man and fearless. This makes me think about this reading that we did because the reason the narrator could not do anything to prevent what was happening was because he feared the leaders, and feared for his own life what would happen to him.
Of course, these experiments were done intentionally, and they had changed the boyfriend into a puny little whimp. When that happened, when people in public noticed the abuse the girlfriend was taking (smacking, cursing at her) they stepped up and got involved.
If the Nazi regime and the leaders were like the little puny whimp, the narrator would more than likely stand up for the actions being brought up upon the people.
However, you can never see a little person starting a genocide war anyway.