humankind and a loss of hope and faith were all products of living through the Holocaust. However, Klein was able to find a way back to life, hope and faith because the intolerable degree of inhumanity she witnessed allowed her to appreciate the smallest acts of kindness or generosity, acts she clung to in order to survive without losing her spirit, “Klein still chooses to tell her story not from the perspective of six dark years spent in hellish uncertainty, but by a dim light, thrown by the few flickers of warmth and kindness she found during that time” (Thomas 1).
In a similar manner, Sethe suffers from guilt, depression, cynicism toward the white man and loses her hope and faith from the tortures inflicted upon her during her days as a slave. While Klein’s guilt comes from wondering why she is one of the few who survived the camps, “Only 120 survived. Why?”, Sethe’s comes from having murdered her own daughter because she loved her too much to see her become a slave. Like Klein was treated as the chattel of the Nazis, so Sethe was treated like th
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