Question

What does juliek, one of the musicians, say that shows the callousness that life in the concentration camp is creating?

Answer 1

Juliek says: "This ceremony, will it be over soon? I'm hungry..." Juliek says this as they are watching a young man be hanged, that is, as someone else is dying. This passage shows that the callousness of life in the concentration camp is creating, that makes death a commonplace situation and a regular sight. While a young man is being hanged, Juliek thinks of himself and in something trivial, like his hunger.. He is wishing for the "ceremony", as he described the hanging, to be over soon in order to satisfy his personal and bodily needs, not acknowledging for a single moment the fact that they are witnessing someone’s death.