Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Blog #3 What Happens to human beings in concentration camps?
When the phrase concentration camp comes to mind, words that immediately define the phrase are horror, death, torture, and pain. This reading is very powerful and difficult to grasp, with all the information that the author packs into the reading. When it comes to concentration camps it is interesting to learn that they can be split into three types of a life after death: Hades, Purgatory, and Hell. The concentration camps were so terrifying that it was like the prisoners were already dead and an evil spirit was getting a kick out of seeing the people suffer more before letting them die. It was easy for inmates to break not just physically but mentally as well, and the idea was for the leaders of the camps to treat the inmates as if they never had existed, they were isolated and kept from the outside word. They were treated like nothing because a prisoner has no value or price, and it was easy for an inmate to be replaced. One can not truly imagine what it is like in the concentration camps, it is something that is beyond life and death, the horror and torture can never be fully grasped. Many died from the regular torture and starvation, and as well because the camps were to overcrowded. This reading was hard to read in that yes we all know about the concentration camps and what went on but the way the author explains things and lays them out really hits the readers. This reading really lets the reader know that people have know idea of what really went on and it is to horrific to fathom what was done to the inmates and how some survived.
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I definetely agree with you on many of the items you adressed. Especially the fact that, yes, the reading was incredibly hard to comprehend, however, at the same time it was really hard hitting. Well written, fluid essay, good job.
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