a victim
...look on his face and showing no emotion went to the SS man and explained to him since I am not able to carry a knife I need someone who has a knife to cut this dead skin off. One of the main parts in this story he expresses is right after he asks the SS man for his flesh to be cut off, he says this, “I tried to be matter-of-fact, avoiding pleading, Hill 2 deference, or arrogance” (par.10). He is telling us exactly what you can not do to be exactly like the other victims; he is acting of more aggression. If you act like this the SS man will send you home. The SS men as illustrated when Bettelheim concludes that since everyone acted like this they would just get more irritated and annoyed because that’s al they heard all day long. So as the narrator acts the completely opposite the SS Man has no comeback. Towards the end of the story he illustrates how he has to keep the same tempo throughout the whole procedure. This is very important because if he was to slip up or act like all of the other victims he would be sent out because once again that’s the only tactics that the Ss men had, or that’s all they knew how to react to. He says this at the end: Throughout these dealings, the SS felt uneasy with me, though he did not unload on me the annoyance his uneasiness aroused. Perhaps he watched me closely because he expected that sooner or later I would slip up and behaves the way his projected image of the Jew was expected to act. This would have meant that his delusional creation had become real (par.12). Many times today we see that this same instance (Not as harsh) happens to people many times. A football coach has job to instruct players and to lead them in the right direction. When players mess up or keep doing the wrong things the coach most times will punish the players by running them or making them stay after or whatever the Hill 3 punishment might be. After time players should start to recognize the pattern in which the coach is behaving in. in most instances the players will go beyond their duty and no matter how long it takes to make things right or to do the correct things. When corrected the coach has ...