The opening poem puts you in a state of mind that forces you to try to understand the inhumanity. We must not forget the things we have, that we take for granted. Taking these things for granted will tear us apart, reduce us.
Poem: Don’t take for granted what you have and who you are.
The narrator is pragmatic, impersonal, poetic and very descriptive. Because he usually speaks in the ‘we’ format or the third person, and rarely speaking about himself, the narrator draws us more into the story, and to feel like one of his comrades. This is essential for us to sympathize with the narrator, because he is not telling us a story, he is involving us in the story.
Moment:
“Cleary they will kill us, whoever thinks he is going to live is mad, it means that he has swallowed the bait, but I have not; I have understood that it will soon all be over, perhaps in this same room, when they get bored of seeing us naked, dancing from foot to foot and trying every now and again to sit down on the floor. But there are two inches of cold water and we cannot sit down.”
This moment is the strongest in the story because this moment in a humans’ life that has been torn down so much that there is no hope for life. All humanity has been stripped away, he cannot even sit down. The sad part about this moment, is that it gets worse from here on out. At this point, though, he has accepted this. That is what makes it so powerful.
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