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This 3 page essay contrasts the dominant themes of Tadeusz Borowski in This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen and Elie Wiesel in Night. The writer argues that Borowski focuses on shared guilt, while Wiesel focuses on his protagonist's struggle to maintain his faith. No additional sources cited.
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concentration camp established to implement Hitlers Final Solution, the wholesale genocide of European Jews, as well as others considered by the Third Reich to be less than human. Each author
describes the ways in which the Nazis systematically dehumanized their captives, stripping them of all their belongings, including their clothes, shaving their heads, and tattooing identification numbers of them. They
also describe the dehumanizing effects of hunger and deprivation. However, two accounts differ subtly in their thematic messages, as Borowski emphasizes that the guilt must be shared by all, while
the inner turmoil of Wiesels narrator largely concerns his loss of faith in God. Borowskis first-person narrative takes the perspective of a man who goes along with
his friend Henri as a member of the "Canada" crew, which is a term that designates the labor gang responsible for unloading the incoming railroad cars of people who are
fated to die in the gas chambers.1 As the survival of these men is dependent on their role in the Canada crew, as this affords them the opportunity to scavenge
food from Nazi victims. As a member of the Canada crew, the narrators carefully cultivated detachment is shaken by the task of having to clean out the railroad car once
it has been emptied of people. In the corners "amid human excrement...lie squashed trampled infants, naked little monsters with enormous head and bloated bellies."2 By describing the babies as "monsters,"
the narrator is endeavoring to maintain his defensive detachment by objectifying them, just as he viewed the people who loaded onto trucks for transport to the gas chamber as an
impersonal wave of humanity, rather than as individuals. A grey-haired woman intervenes just as a soldier is about to shoot the babies and takes the babies. When she does so,
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