Task: Choose one of the following prompts and answer using 200 words.
Reading: Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies & Gentlemen ( I don’t have the book but there is information online on it that can help.)
Choose at least 1 prompt from below and discuss it/them.
- Discuss the dehumanization of the prisoners of Auschwitz as described in the first paragraph of “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.”
- Discuss the connection between Eros and Thanatos as they appear in the stories from This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.
- How trustworthy of a narrator is Liza from The Passenger? How does the film set her telling of the story up against the “actual” story?
- Discuss the pessimism of the story “The January Offensive.”