Borowski' This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen & Kafta's The Metamorphosis

Introduction

In their separate and remarkable piece of writing, Tadeusz Borowski and Franz Kafka have narrated their life experiences during different times. In Borowski's Ladies and Gentlemen, to the Gas Chamber, the author narrates about the holocaust in Auschwitz, a death camp. The writer was also imprisoned in the same place for two years when he was just 20. He adopted the role of a Polish gentile prisoner so that he could report the facts to enlighten the upcoming generations about the severe realities of the death camp. While, Borowski's treatment in the prison was not less rigorous, in contrast, Jews used to be sent to gas chambers. In the Kafta's The Metamorphosis, the author notifies the sinister allegory of hopelessness and dehumanization in the contemporary world. According to the author, there is not a single moment in any of his domestic, societal, and professional life which can be regarded as productive and conformist. This essay will present the analysis of the two historical but not literary pieces of writing which could help the readers compare and contrast different aspects of the two narrations.

Discussion

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

In the Borowski's publication which is also known as This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen, the author commences by introducing the death camp of Auschwitz and explaining the circumstances in which prisoners used to live. He disclosed his discourse which took place with this friend, Henri. The main job of the author and his friend in the prison was to unload the new prisoners who arrived on prisoners transport. It has been a while when the last transport were here so the author was rather glad to hear it because only then they can earn their food and clothing in view of the fact that these prisoners would end up suffering and dying in the same prison (Budick, 2005). The author moving forward tells the audience that he went up to the station along with SS officers as well as guard where new transport was expected to arrive. He illustrated the picture of prisoners who were in very ghastly circumstances; they were literally screaming for air and water since they were held in tight compartments where they were almost dying of suffocation. Moving on, he described how old prisoners including him endeavored to strip the new ones of their clothing, bags and other baggage. There were also women screaming for their separated children under force. The irony of the picture depicted by the author is that there were also Red Cross trucks which were deceivably giving the impression that all prisoners would be looked after in very compassionate way (Thompson, 2012). As a matter of fact, these same vehicles carried the lethal gaseous which could instantly exterminate them in one go. The narrator goes on to explain, in enormous elements, the horrors which he eye witnessed. There was a little girl whom is going to be burned alive with corpses just because she lost ...