The Pianist
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Chapter 8 Question
If you were Szpilman and you watched all the other people in the ghetto slowly have to pack up and be deported, what would you think. would you be scared? and when in the book it says "our turn came a selection had been carried out at the collecting center, and only Henryk and Halina were passed as still fit to work. Father, Regina, and I were told to go back to the barracks. Once we were there the building was surrounded, and heard the whistle in the yard. It was no use struggling any more. I had done what i could to save my loved ones and myself. It had obviously been impossible from the start. Perhaps at least Halina and Henryk would fare better than the rest of us." (97) If you were Szpilman would you think you think your a "failure" for not protecting your family? if so why or why not?
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If I saw the other people in the ghetto slowly start to all get deported, I would be scared because I would be wondering if me and my family were the next ones to be deported. Not knowing when it was going to happen is what would scare me the most. If I were Szpilman, I would think that I am somewhat of a failure because I would think that it is my responsibility to protect my family. But, I would also think that I did everything that I could to protect them but it was out of my control.
ReplyDeleteTo be put in that situation would be very hard, but i do not really think i would feel like a failure. if i tried absolutely everything i could do to try and keep my family from getting deported, then that would be good enough for me. the one reason i might feel like a failure is if i did not try to fight for our safety and i just took the situation and let it happen. but i would not do that. if i was szpilman i would be the force of my family and make sure nothing happened to them. he was not so lucky, unfortunately, but when he knew him and his family would get deported, he took it much better than if he were to sit back and let the germans take them away.
ReplyDeletei think at this point i would think there is no more reason to live. that i would be better off dead. im sure most of the people there were thinking this at the time. i would not feel like a failure because technically it is not my job to protect me family and keep them safe, only a little bit. also, it was nearly impossible for anyone to do anything about what was doing on because they were scared to take action. i would be too if i was put in his situation and i do not blame him for not doing much about itl
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