THIS WAY FOR THE GAS

STUDENT: ROSA NELIA BURGARA CHIRIPUA

TEACHER: SERGIO LUIS AYAZO SANTOS

CESAR
CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
VILLAVICENCIO-META
ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS
YEAR:2022

This way for the gas.

Descripción de la actividad

In this assignment, you are required to write a short response to the text “This way for
the gas, ladies, and gentlemen
Your text should include the following 5 types of responses:

- An opinion: tell what you think or feel about a certain part, and why. Be specific.

I believe that despite the suffering these people faced, because of the events that
accompanied them, empathy and companionship must have surfaced in them, to
combat their impending reality.
In the story, the narrator is invited to work on the ramp, where prisoners are
unloaded from cattle cars and separated into groups. Throughout the story, the
camp is depicted as a place of dehumanization where any sense of goodness,
righteousness, honor, and civility are crushed by each man and woman’s will and
desire to survive; Borowski uses multiple methods to deliberately convey this
element, including through his descriptions of the camp, the descriptions of the
prisoners, and the actions of the various characters which are portrayed.

- A question: this can be a basic question about something you don’t understand in
the text, or a larger question (about life, literature, society) that the text you consider.

What jobs did the Jews do in the concentration camps?

- A connection: a certain point in the text that reminds you of another story, movie,
piece of news, or something else from real life. How are the two alike?

The camp has been sealed off tight. Not a single prisoner, not one solitary louse,
can sneak through the gate. The labour Kommandos have stopped working. All
day, thousands of naked men shuffle up and down the roads, cluster around the
squares, or lie against the walls and on top of the roofs. We have been sleeping on
plain boards since our mattresses and blankets are still being disinfected. This part
of the text reminds me of the movie” Life is beautiful” because there too men and
women are kept as prisoners in a closed camp ruled by the Nasis. There the
prisoners work hard for the simple purpose of survival.

- A significant passage: a certain part in the text is important to the general meaning
of the text. Explain why.
Religion is the opium of the people-says (MARX, 1844)says Henri, who is a
communist and rentier.
sententiously. "If they did not believe in God and eternal life, they would have
destroyed the crematoria a long time ago.
Many believe in the existence of eternal life, full of fulfillment and happiness,
however, when thinking about this, one might think that one lives a life full of
suffering, need, and misery. However, by discarding the idea of eternal life, harmful
errors could be incurred, which bring irreversible consequences. I think many
digress on these matters of religion to the point of going to extremes, far from a
true search for GOD.in that sense, I consider that religion can become the opium of
the people as the communists say, and in terms of appreciation of atheists, it is
somewhat respectable.

- Language recognition: a figure of speech (e.g. hyperbole, metaphor, personification)

or another example of figurative language.

Metaphor: because the histories are fictional, they are based on true events
Tadeusz Borowski Witnessed in concentration camps during World War II (1939–45)
as a prisoner in Auschwitz and Dachau.

Explain how it adds to the piece.

Write at least three complete sentences per type of response (15 sentences in total).
In each response, provide the page number, paragraph, or line number of the part
you’re responding to.

1-The camp is portrayed as hellish, and the narrator repeatedly describes the
intense heat that is present at the camp.
-It's like hell because of a very hard situation, where they die, they endure hunger,
they feel fatigued and enslaved.
2- When the narrator speaks of the trucks, he describes them as “leave[ing] and
return[ing], without interruption, as on a monstrous.
-I think he describes them as “going out and coming back, without interruption, like
on a monstrous thing.
3- shots along the train”
-This passage most clearly and blatantly describes the apathy for the victims that
the SS officers exhibit, further removing the already near-non-existent element of
humanity from the victims.
4-We carry them out like chickens, holding several in each hand.
-It means that they carried children, women, young people, men like monsters and
like skinned chicken, bloody and rotten dead.
5-I feel no pity. I'm not sorry van to the gas chamber.
-We can say that the author would like the bad guys to go to hell and die and rot
inside the gas chamber.
6-Our throats are dry, every word hurts.
-It means that they spend working like slaves under the sun and that they are tired,
worn out without strength because they are not feeding their body with food such
as water, which is very important for all humanity. After all, it gives us strength and
quenches our thirst and feels a little relief.
7- The mother is willing to abandon her child, even going so far as to refer to him
as ‘it’, to save herself.
-A woman rejects her child to avoid being sent to the gas chambers for having a
child, as the child runs after her screaming.
8- Canada" designated wealth and well-being in the camp.
-We could say that at that time Canada had a lot of money, mining, natural
resources, oil, and wood.
9- In "The Man with the Package" the campus Schreiber, or clerk, clings to a
package of his belongings as he prepares to go to his death in the gas chamber.
- The package symbolizes hope and comfort, even where there are no grounds for
hope and no one to comfort him.

References
MARX, K. (1844). Religion is the opium of the people.

Borowski, T. (s.f). This way for the gas. Retrieved from

https://pv.cecar.edu.co/virtualidad/pluginfile.php/3753/mod_resource/content/3/
thiswayforgassto ry.pdf