The Key Game Ida Fink Summary

The work of Ida Fink, in The Key Game, appeals to the sense of right or wrong or primarily the sense of ethos. Ida Fink is Polish writer who wrote short stories about the Holocaust in Polish. The Key Game is set during the start of the war when the Nazis were trying to find all the individuals who were Jewish. The narrator also provides background information on how the families were being affected on from the war from their point of view. This particular story is a strong example of ethics through the use of right and wrong during the war. In The Key Game, it seems that the particular family is Jewish and continues to move around Germany so they do not get captured by the Nazi’s. Moving around Poland gives satisfaction to the family with the thought of them not being separated. Since

They rely on their child when answering to the door with the potential of the Nazis coming. They anticipate their child to answer the door just like they taught him to do so. On the other hand, every game played needs critical thinking in order to outsmart the other players. When one is put in a stressful situation a lot of pathos or emotion is also stressed. The boy who has unique features, such as “chubby cheeks” and “blue eyes” (35) is their only hope to save them because he is perceived as the least Jewish looking. When readers realize that the parents are using their child for protection, then the reader may become sympathetic for the outcome of the family.
Ethics is used correctly and in many ways throughout this short story was written by Ida Fink. Since there were many uses of ethics throughout the story it gives people an example of what Holocaust victims went through to survive and keep their families together. Personally, I believe having ethics in stories are very important when getting the point across to the