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this passage talks about a man named akiba drummer who was with them in the camp, and he was someone who went around saying he could not do it anymore, and he was too weak. everyone around him tried raising his spirits. This was a good scene to use for the book, because they are all together squished in one room, and then you hear an old man saying he wont make it and he is weak. And yet everyone looks up to him thinking about how he was strong enough to go through everything he went through. This scene was very easy for me to visualize.
I think that this part is so sad, because you can sense the helplessness in Akiba's words. I also thought it was sad because Akiba's one request was that when he died, he wanted everybody to say Kaddish for him, which is the prayer for death, I think... Well, I thought it was very sad how everybody else got caught up with everything, and they forgot to pray for him.
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ReplyDeleteThis part of the book was depressing to read, because you witness how Akiba was giving up on life since he was too weak to work anymore. I felt bad that no one fulfilled his last death wish of everyone saying Kaddish for him. The least the people could do was respect his last wish, but instead, his death wish was forgotten. Living in the concentration camps made everyone forget the meaning of respect, moral values, life, and being civilized since the experience was like living in hell. It also made everyone selfish and only being concerned with his/her survival, not even caring who they hurt in the process.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this part is really sad. Isabela you should have tried to make them seem more sad. And less fat because they were starving. They also need hands LOL. But really this was such a sad part.
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