Lit Analysis #2

Topics and Events
 The book I selected to read is called "Three years in the gas chambers" and the author of the book is Filip Muller and he is a survivor/ Eye witness of Auschwitz. This story is basically all about his struggle for survival and the road blocks he had to endure. He watches people he grew up with, get tossed into the oven, he threw them in. Working in that room gave him the privilige of staying alive. Friends and family were murdered and tortured before his eyes,then later that day he saw them again when he had to strip them down and get them ready for the ovens. My authors decided to write about this because its his story of surviving the worst mass attempt of Jewish extermination. Also I believe that he is among the few who have actually survived and was strong enough to write his story. This book really caught my attention because I'm a sucker for books about world wars and historic events. By putting myself in the shoes of Filip it makes the book way more interesting and it just attaches my brain to the book. This book is as realistic as it gets, I could easily connect to my friends grandpa who had told us stories about being in the Korean and Vietnam war because he watched friends and close ones die before his eyes and then having to see them later in the coffin.
People
The authors choices say the he wanted to make it through the holocaust at whatever the cost is. He chose to write about all this because he was one of the few and proud Jewish people that survived the worst attempt to exterminate a certain race. There's a few characters in this book that really caught my attention,Fischl and Filip. Fischl is a strong willed man, he is tall and very muscular. The German camp managers wanted to keep him alive because he was a good worker and would do anything to keep himself alive and well feed at any cost. Filip is very similar to Fischl very strong willed, hes willing to make sacrafices, he wants to see himself and others to live to see the next day. The story didn't really describe the guys in detail but I'm sure they had brown hair and brown eyes and a little taller then average. If I was to characterize them in a non fiction book, I'd most likely do direct because I'd want people to see the view of their life through their eyes. I really don't know why these people are so interesting to me. Three years in the gas chambers and in the crematorium room, Filip had only watched Fischl work there for two years, watching Fischl work and watching how the guards treated him mad Filip think that Fischl was among the few that were privileged and successful. Fischl was a prisoner before Auschwitz and he was a prison again in Auschwitz, he was a murderer before Auschwitz and he's a murderer in Auschwitz. He used both approaches because it was appropiate, Filip wanted to be Fischls friend because of his size and his privileges and my last impression of Fischl is simple, I'd do the same thing as Filip and respect him for what he's doing know but still question his loyalty to fellow Jewish people. Throughout the story it felt like I was reading someones journal, so it felt like I'd met a person. The things that he described, watching people die, watching people be cremated, listen to how the German leaders would trick men, women and children to think that they were going to take a shower but really they were stepping into the gas chambers and then listen to the screams and bangs while the troops joked saying " maybe the showers to hot for them", only humans could experience that.
Style
 The author made the story journalistic, he had kept track of what day he went to a certain camp and the month or year he left that place and had been moved to another. In the story the author was more lengthy and detailed on the places and actions, but mostly places and this made the story long and boring after about 60 pages or so. He used really detailed descriptions of everything that was happening around him, mostly death and sorrow. His attitude was that of someone trying to survive, he wanted to live, he wanted to save as many people as he could, and he wanted to watch the Nazi force be destroyed.
Enduring Memory
One idea that I will remembering because of this story is the value of life and how it means so much to us and  how much everyone around us will be influenced to find their value in life also.