Yanek Gruener Quotes

1. The book Prisoner B-3087 was based on the time period during the holocaust. An example of this in the book was in chapter nine. “ The Nazis snatched me up one day when I was at work .I was still working at the tailor shop in Krakow ,hoping that it would save me from deportation.” Another example of this book being written during the holocaust was in chapter 16, “In a large empty room we were ordered to undress and pile our striped uniforms in a corner.” and “They whipped us and beat us again to herd us into the next room, where showerheads lined the ceiling. I remembered the man on the street had said, that you died fastest if you stood underneath one of the showerhead, where the gas came out. Instead I moved away from them, near one of …show more content…
Yanek Gruener is the main character of this story. Yanek is very creative. In chapter one he shows what he uses to entertain the family and how creative his stories can get.” It was a slide projector id made by mounting a lightbulb on a piece of wood and positioning wooden plates with lenses from magnifying glasses in front of it. I could show pictures on the wall, or do shadow puppet shows.” In chapter twenty-two he carries a boy’s weight during a death march just to keep him from dying or getting shot. I think this proves his perseverance. “Within just a few meters I stumbled under the weight of him, but I didn’t let go. I wanted to however this boy had a face. He had a name too, though I didn’t know it. He had a mother and a father, probably dead by now, but he had a family. A home somewhere. He could have been me Yanek Gruener, son of Oskar and Mina. If it were me wouldn’t I want someone to help me? So I carried on.” Yanek also proves to be a quick thinker. This is because he thinks of a quick solution to not being caught and killed by Amon Goeth “The only way we were going to get out of this was to make Goeth believe we were on a work detail, and he could smell fear as well as the dogs could. Maybe even better. ‘You there! Stop!’ Goeth shouted. ‘Where are you going? My hands shook as if doffed my cap like we were drilled to do. ‘We were sent to a work detail on the south side of camp …show more content…
The conflict in the story are the Nazis and Germans taking over Yanek’s life and making him miserable. They torture him through concentration camps and death marches and take away everything he loves. Toward the end of the novel when Yanek was in Dachau he had heard bullets and planes until he woke up and everything was silent. The Americans had come and resolved the conflict by quickly taking them away from the horrible nightmare. They had been given food and clothes and real pillows and tooth brushes to their astonishment. Yanek had survived the