Escape From Nazi Death Camp Analysis

The struggles that both characters in Alive and Escape from a Nazi Death Camp are clearly intertwined. In both, characters struggle with the psychological aspect of the whole predicament. When the survivors in Alive land in the barren wasteland of the Andes, they are faced with the fact that they had to eat other dead passengers in order to survive. The survivors had to do the unthinkable, eating the flesh of their loved ones. Psychological, this was probably the most disturbing moment in their lives. But eventually, the survivors got over this psychological barrier, and continued to eat to stay alive. This is similar in Escape from a Nazi Death Camp because many of the people in the death camp had to watch as their loved ones get beaten and murdered.Many people lost their families and friends which made them feel that there was no reason to live. The fact that real people were burned in an oven, and workers could see their ashes coming from the chimneys was already psychologically disturbing as it is. But the slave workers eventually rose together and believed that although their lives were taken from them, they can still fight back. This resulted in a revolt against the terrible Nazis, allowing them have a mass breakout from Sobibor.
From the characters in each story, I believe the same spirit that they shared was the will to live no matter what. I believe although many people died in both stories because of different …show more content…
In Alive, the boys realized how magnificent God is and how they should cherish life much more after they were freedom from their icy hell. In Sobibor, although so many people died, the survivors upon being free, realized that freedom is uncomparable to anything in the world. These survivors learned that it truly is much better to be free for a day than to be a slave all their lives. They truly cherished freedom that was given to them after their lengthy