Suffering and death are a curse on every human being, but even the redemptive desire to find meaning in life in the darkest hell will not die.
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self redemption in hell
Vern 2022-04-23 07:03:13
Sol thought of himself as just a walking corpse surviving in a concentration camp. Seeing the boy who survived the gas chamber made him think he had witnessed a miracle, and burying the boy in the Jewish rites was as sacred as the disciples secretly burying Jesus, risking his life for it. At the end, when Thor was frustrated by not being able to pull the boy's body to the river bank, he found the young Polish boy standing at the door staring at him, as if his piety had been promised and his self-redemption had been completed, although this was not the case. It was the prelude to the demise of his earthly life.
Suffering and death are a curse on every human being, but even the redemptive desire to find meaning in life in the darkest hell will not die.
Suffering and death are a curse on every human being, but even the redemptive desire to find meaning in life in the darkest hell will not die.
Extended Reading
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Abraham Warszawski: Who's this boy?
Saul Ausländer: My son.
Abraham Warszawski: But you have no son.
Saul Ausländer: I do. I have to bury him.
Abraham Warszawski: You don't need a rabbi for that.
Saul Ausländer: At least he'll do what's right.
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Saul Ausländer: I have to take care of my son. He's not from my wife.
Abraham Warszawski: When did you last see him?
[pause]
Abraham Warszawski: You have no son.