One example of survival and compassion is in the beginning of the story when Mrs. Schacter goes into shock after being separated from her family. While in the train she frantically screams and claims that she sees a “terrible family and fire” and there is none. On page 25, she says “Jews listen to me…I see fire! I see flames, huge flames”! Since she was screaming and drawing attention the Jews decided to beat her in order to quiet her. The Nazis hoped instances like these would cause the Jews to kill each other so they would put the Jews in instances like this. This caused the Jews to show less compassion towards each other which would affect their survival. They all lost compassion for Mrs. Schacter after she almost caused the Jews to be killed.
