Parvis

People aren't born with hatred, they aquire it. To this day I cannot forget. The Nazi's just came to my home Demanding to pack only the precious things I own Confused and frightened, where they were taking me? Packed into a box car with hundreds of others Given no food Not even water. Felt like days went by Finally we have arrived. What is this place? Maybe now we will be treated as human beings. I heard others whispering Auschwitz. My heart stopped Now I know that this is just the beginning. We were put into lines It felt like an eternity I thought they were asking for our names Instead we were just given a number Thats all we were to them. You were like a hunted animal 24 hours a day. We just looked like walking dead, skeleltons. I felt as if I were in a dream. What do they want? They already took everything. My soul, I wasn't going to let my soul burn into ashes. Even if I do make it out of here How could I ever find peace again? I will never understand why or how anybody could do this. People aren't born with hatred, they acquire it.

The way I came up with my word choice and theme for my found poem was by listing out what I read and heard from the movie. I chose to use memories as my main focus for the story. Vladek remembered all the struggles he had to face to survive through the Holocaust like how he remembered arriving to Auschwitz and thinking that he was getting saved. When he realized that he wasn't going to be saved he knew that that was just only the beginning of the war.