Summary And Analysis Of Mug. Hug: A Narrative Fiction

Chug. Chug. Chug. The sounds of the trains echo along with the raspy breaths of thirty people clustered together in a dilapidated cattle cart. Rays of light shined through the crack of the boards. Hope that seemed so close, but was just out of reach. The stench of sweat choked their lungs. Dust chalked their tongues. Provisions were not provided. They could not sit. If one was sick, he died on his feet standing up. Hours passed by. Hours morphed into days. Three nights crawled by with the constant drum of the train chugging on. Finally they reached their destination. The doors opened. Eight out of the thirty people had died.
Leo Schneider stepped out of the cart, fearing what would happen next. Large, dark gates intimidatingly loomed over them. Large searchlights blinded them, piercing the darkness. He immediately wished to be back in the cart. The gates creaked open. Screams and barking punctured the silence. Camp guards screeched at them. They lined up all the prisoners. There were those who resisted and beaten by the guards. Everything went extremely fast. Left, right, right, left. Men were separated from women. Children were ripped from the arms of their mothers. The elderly were chased like cattle. The sick and disabled were treated like garbage. Mothers who wouldn’t give up their children were beaten, their children taken and …show more content…
Leo had never been in so much pain. Russian troops advanced and Leo was relocated to another camp where he served labour. The officer in charge of the camp was a master of torture. The prisoners would get half rations consisting mainly of the peelings from the vegetables the Germans ate for lunch. People would fall dead around Leo. The prisoners were worked to death. They were stickmen slowly chipping away at mines. The head officer would come down to the labour camps and torment prisoners himself. Leo was a victim to the officers brutal beatings many times. He withstood every blow. Every blow would break his