“Survive. At any cost.” Prisoner B-3087 is a historical fiction novel written by Ruth Gruner. This story tells the reader how important even the little things in life are and how valuable they are, something you don’t notice until they are taken away from you. It tells us about Yanek Gruener, a Jew living in one of the most horrendous event of the 20th century, the holocaust during WW2. This story is based off of the real life story of Jack Gruener, who endured almost exactly what happens in the book. Prisoner B-3087 really tells me how survival was like a luxury at that time, how some things no matter how small are still important. The story begins with Yanek in his home town of Krakow, living with his father and mother. Yanek is regular
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At Any Cost” is a phrase that completely describes this book. Although Yanek accepts the fact that he can die almost every second in the camp, he continues to try his survive even if it means other people will die because of him. This doesn’t mean he’s selfish ruthless, or heartless, in the story his morals affect him a lot more than it shows. At one point during a death march a fellow Jew almost falls next to him, but Yanek holds him up, wasting his precious energy on someone who will probably die anyways. But in another part Yanek has an extra loaf of smuggled bread while a man under him is there, on the brink of starving to death and Yanek knows that the bread would save the man, but Yanek lays there not being able to sleep because of the man’s moans and groans. “Survival. At Any Cost”
One thing in the book that Yanek says is that if he could’ve laughed more, eaten more, or even just did anything more before he would’ve done it, cherished it. Yanek realizes that everything he did before was something that he cherished. For example in the book at one of the Concentration camps while he is under one of the showers he thinks about the times when he used to brush his teeth , then starts using his finger like a brush , remembering lost times. Yanek really displays how important everything is, how we should remember it before it is taken away from us. This is my last
At Any Cost” is a phrase that completely describes this book. Although Yanek accepts the fact that he can die almost every second in the camp, he continues to try his survive even if it means other people will die because of him. This doesn’t mean he’s selfish ruthless, or heartless, in the story his morals affect him a lot more than it shows. At one point during a death march a fellow Jew almost falls next to him, but Yanek holds him up, wasting his precious energy on someone who will probably die anyways. But in another part Yanek has an extra loaf of smuggled bread while a man under him is there, on the brink of starving to death and Yanek knows that the bread would save the man, but Yanek lays there not being able to sleep because of the man’s moans and groans. “Survival. At Any Cost”
One thing in the book that Yanek says is that if he could’ve laughed more, eaten more, or even just did anything more before he would’ve done it, cherished it. Yanek realizes that everything he did before was something that he cherished. For example in the book at one of the Concentration camps while he is under one of the showers he thinks about the times when he used to brush his teeth , then starts using his finger like a brush , remembering lost times. Yanek really displays how important everything is, how we should remember it before it is taken away from us. This is my last