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Reflection On This Way For The Gas Ladies And Gentlemen

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Mercedes Andrade
10/6/17
A Reflection on “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen” In this story, Tadeusz Borowski describes what is an almost a typical day at Auschwitz, a concentration camp during World War II. The events that the narrator participates in and is a witness of, describes how there is a loss of morality in situations that involve life or death. Borowski takes a different route when writing about events during this gruesome time. The story is unemotional and unsympathetic, as he describes scenes involving innocent Jews experiencing dehumanization. In some instances, he refers to Jews as “sheep,” the dead corpses as “a mound of meat,” and innocent babies as “naked little monsters…with… bloated bellies” (Borowski). He goes
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