This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

It is that very hope that generates people go without a murmur to the fluff chambers, keeps them from risking revolt, paralyses them into desensitise inactivity hope that breaks family ties, makes mothers renounce their children, or wives sell their bodies for bread, or husbands to kill. (122) This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski displays how excerption and decease have a close relationship. With an absence of cleanity Tedeusz becomes a key component to the executors effort. The inflict of values and an uncertain hope by the personal view of Tedeusz reflects on how the civilization as a whole is suffocated by Nazi control.It is essential to endure these issues in order to survive. The narrator Tedeusz slides into survival method with a unique role in the camp, he witnesses and describes the complexity of survival and hope in the camp. He arrives at Auschwitz as a political prisoner when the policy on extermination changes, three weeks preferably Arya ns stopped being sent to the gas chambers, with that he wedges himself in the middle of the hierarchy. With that, he does not decease as a prisoner and does not endure the daily tasks as bad as most. He becomes one of the experienced, well-adjusted, completely institutionalized inmates.For him everything is a matter of sheer practicality, and people who refuse to cooperate with the necessity politics of camp life deserve not pity but contempt. The Canada men carry the babies relieve oneself care chickens (116), showing their surrender to the system of rules of the Nazis. He is a victim collaborating in crime immunized against the plague that surrounds him able to find a fairly comfortable situation. His tone is one of moral indifference he views the murdered people and the ones dying of starvation from a distance, without compassion, with scorn even.In Auschwitz, Our Home, one of the short stories in the collection, the narrator exclaims, Never before in the hi report of manki nd has hope been stronger than man, but never in like manner has it done so much harm as it has in this war, in this concentration camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers. (122) He is confronted by a mankind w present the future is unknown. It plants an insightful thought of the working world. The writing portrays in such a brutally artless tone it forces us to confront the world and our understanding of human nature.In Auschwitz the odds are against survival what happens when we are confronted by a world where a future is not certain. We are asked to reaffirm our beliefs and the metrical unit for our beliefs. Does hope motivate us to action, or in essence of the text, does it paralyze our belief system and make us less likely to act for survival? Some characters that came off the trains showed yes some showed no. bingle character in particular bravely makes a decision right from the train. .. And over there is the gas cha mber communal death, disgusting and ugly.And over in the other direction is the concentration camp more than hideous, more terrible than death I know, she says with a shade of proud contempt She walks off resolutely in the direction of the trucks. This is a dignified act she is unafraid to stand up for her values. On the contrary, a cleaning woman is numbed by the choice she must make, She is young, healthy, good-looking, she wants to live. But the child runs after her, wailing loudly Mama, mom dont leave me (43), she sacrifices her morals for a hope of survival with a tragic essential act.The novel also exhibits how hope gets in the way for survival. Every aspect of civilization is devalued so that everyone is under the same system created by the Nazis. Incomers remind the prisoners of their lost values and show a glimpse of the outside world, they are then treated with resentment and disgust. The Nazis and the prisoners pure tone better than the incomers and quickly reject them and their system of values in forms of anger. The Canada men brutally tear suitcases from their hands, impatiently pull of their coats (118). As a woman reaches down quickly to pick up her handbag.A whip flies, the woman screams, stumbles, and falls (115) the narrator says, I dont know why, but I am furious, simply furious with these people-furious because I must be here because of them. I feel no pity. I am not sorry theyre going to the gas chamber. (116) the prisoners feel anger toward the incomers because the easiest way to relieve your hate is to turn against someone weaker. (116) Even the prisoners feel no munificence for the incomers because the outside and inside worlds of the camp do not mix only one world can buoy exist.Since a civilization is based on pure values, these values must be united as one. If the dead are wrong and the living are always right, everything is finally justified but the story of Borowskis life and that which he wrote about Auschwitz show th at the dead are right, and not the living. (26) To endure the derailed moral value in the camp, one must live in savagely, in each present significance and with faith to survive. By way of justification and structure Tedeusz and others learn that survival and death are in close association.