Privacy

Through this book in a lot of ways I am constantly amazed by the people’s in the camps ingenuity. They from the beginning take basically nothing and do the best they can with it. The scene I think that really first hit that home to me was the bathroom scene.
I mean she talks about the fact that it is basically a big room with toilets in the center no privacy, nothing just long lines of people forced to deal with it and do what they can to make it. The picture of the old woman lugging around a large cardboard partition is so striking. It really illustrates how far they went for just a modicum of privacy something everyone takes for granted. I mean the very idea of a little old lady lugging a huge piece of cardboard with her every time she went to the bathroom is inconceivable. I know even for a person my age it would be difficult and trying and to imagine a woman in her seventies doing it shows just how far they would go just for something so simple. I mean as she says the large cardboard is as big as the woman and to think she was doing that every time she had to use the latrine. I know as a woman I can’t imagine having to do it and I hope I would never have to.