Chapter 15

“These girls sing, like girls sing in laboratories all over the world, and it makes us deeply unhappy. They talk among themselves: they talk about the rationing, about their fiances, about their homes, about the approaching holidays...(143)”

Naturally as humans we want to be the best. We want to exceed others and be looked up to. We want others to bow down before and exclaim that we are the best. That’s probably why Simba wanted to be king, but its true. We want success. We want a good job. Now image if you had those ambitions in life. You wanted to be the best, and have the best. And you firmly believe you could too. But then one day it all changed. Because of your ethnicity, a culture that had no reason to be against you, took your life, your money, and made you live out on the street. Everyday now you see them as the walk to a from work. You see them talking about taking a vacation, about going to Hawaii. Their happy. The sing on the street, in their house, and at work. It makes you unhappy because that’s the kind of life you wanted, you wanted to be happy, and now their happy, and you aren’t. This is what is happening. The jews before their deportation expected a lot from life. They didn’t get it. The work until they die, and then some. When someone who has been through that much sees someone who is extremely happy, they start to get upset. If my life was taken from me, I would get upset over those that still had a life. But to men who have not seen life in so long, how can they feel anger. All the anger they could have felt was released on the German’s. So they sit there, unhappy at joy, because it is not their own.