Although few would associate the second World War with any sense of humor, Borowski was able to use carefully placed humor in order to demonstrate the perversion of the mind and of thought that members of concentration camps were subject to and show the overall demented thinking of the people in the camps as well as the guards. One instance of dark humor being presented in the work comes when a character says “Let him rave. They’ll take him to the oven that much sooner” (Borowski 2252). Although to many this quote is seen as awful and demeaning towards the rabbi which they were addressing, the constant violence and awful sights that these prisoners experienced made early death seem like a common and unavoidable certainty leading to twisted
