“When will it be our turn? (pg 137)”
It was surprising to notice from 174,000 Jews, only twenty-one of them were able to survive within a year. Primo also became curious of “How many of us will be alive at the new year? How many when spring begins?”Although Primo himself is one of the specialized Kommando, it does not guarantee that he will never die in Auschwitz. The title “Specialist” might help him to be excused from hard labor, but still, Primo cannot predict his future. But luckily, regardless of his worries, he was chosen as one of the three workers of the new Laboratory.
As Primo Levi works in the Laboratory, the girls of the laboratory make him miserable. “It is different here. Faced with the girls of the laboratory, we three feel ourselves sink into the ground from shame and embarrassment. We know what we look like; we see each other and sometimes we happen to see our reflection in a clean window. We are ridiculous and repugnant (pg 142).” By reading the quote, I was outraged by the fact that the Jews were feeling shameful of their appearance by facing the German girls. What makes the German girls special? They are just loquacious annoying speakers who don’t know about how the Jewish prisoners are suffering because of their country. Actually, they have to keep the laboratory clean, but why are they chatting with each other? While Primo was working by himself, he had to feel deeply unhappy by hearing the girls speaking about their holidays.
“Are you going home on Sunday? I am not, travelling is so uncomfortable! (pg 143)”
How dare does she say like that in a building with Jewish prisoners? I would just like to spank her and command her to clean the laboratory. During that period, the Jews would have done anything if they could travel to go back home. Once again, only my hatred towards the Germans was getting bigger and bigger. The German officers were killing the Jews physically and the German girls were killing the Jews mentally.
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