QUOTE ANALYSIS

Task 2

We were given the task to analyse 3 different fragments from chapter 3 and to use the PEE style wich I found is the best to explain an idea. Instead of choosing quotes to resume the chapter, I choose quotes that in my opinion give away the context and how jewish people suffer in those times and how was the general situation.

1.  We can see that in those times as we all know Jewish were  abused and they were private of many basic things for daily life, wich was a very terrible situation since they need to pay much more and recieve much less for basic things such as food, we can see all thee things jewsih were privated by that time looking at the following quote:"...I once asked him what he found so great about smoking so much, to which he gave the curt reply, 'It's cheaper than food'. I was slightly taken aback, since such a reason would never ave occurred to me." (Page 42) In this powerful quote we can see how this character called "the smoker" get addicted to cigarettes since he can obtain them easier than food, wich is a very  sadand deplorable situation in my opinion. It is important to note that this situation ocurred early in the chapter and when George have already being taken away from the bus by the policeman and joined with the group of boys.

Other thing that is important to note in this chapter is that not everyone under the Nazi Regime was a bad person, but instead was surpassed by the situation and have no other choice but to follow orders from the top and the real Nazis. This persons weren`t criminals as they couldn`t do nothing agains there superiors. What is said before can be explained by the following quote:""The policeman was not in the least put out by the question. But then again he replied it was not up to him to decide. As became clear, he really knew little more than we did: he referred to further orders that would replace the older ones..." (Page 43) This quote is stay by George after he realized that the policeman really didn`t know what to do with all that group as he was just told to took them and wait for what he call " further orders" wich of course make it clear that he was sor of an innocent person and actually in my opinion didn`t even know what the fates of the Jewish he joined was and he could not do much about it.

 Finally,  I want to state that Jewish were really abused and denigrated to inhuman levels wich although was a very untolerable and sad situation, no one could do much as the Nazis were in total control and the Jewish did not have voice and vote, since if they try to raise they would just be executed. Basicly im trying to say that Nazism was a very racist and close minded ideology and those who believe in it literally transform into animals.“… he turn toward the gendarmes, ordering them , in a bellow that filled the entire square, to take ”the whole Jewish rabble” off the place that, in his view, they actually belonged-the, stables, that is to say-and lock them in for the night.”(Page 57)

This quote is taken after a big Jewish group, among them George, is taken to what I feel from the story was like a grey maze, and were we can look at this officer who really believe in Nazi ideology,  have some degree of auhtority and this mixed make him despreciate Jewish to the point of refering to them as "rubbish"  showing his racism and how the Jewish were being denigrated as he says that "they actually belonged the stables."