Chapter Summary Of 'No Return' By Vacek

Chapter 1: No Return

The story begins as the author is notifying the reader about the Sunday rituals that are performed by the prisoners. The orders are given by Vacek who makes the prisoners produce whipping sounds with their caps. Eventually people began dying because they could not follow orders. In addition the Vacek killed disabled people, for example the man with the paralyzed arm and the deaf tailor. The killings did not stop and more people were killed. To make the scenario worse prisoners were killing other prisoners, a lawyer then spoke up talking about laws and screaming that innocent people are dying. As I read the story I continue to learn the conditions of their life even after Vacek dies. Typhus almost guarantees death to
When the author describes the dinner scene I realized early into the story that the people operating the camp want to strip the prisoners of all hope, they worked to such an extent that even the food reached a new low level. The reader learns that Filip crawled out of bed with his bunk buddy and tried to get more tea. As a result, he and his friend were caught. This chapter makes me think about myself and what I would do if I was in Auschwitz, I would probably have died on the first day, this would not have been so bad if I think about it. Being with guards who beat prisoners for no reason and having to deal with a place that has no rules would be a disaster. In this first chapter I felt that everything that happened to the prisoners was wrong. (Questions: 1. I thought that Vacek was dead? 2. Is Vacek a title or a real person?
Filip was frightened because he never touched a dead body and he was in the crematorium where dead bodies were being incinerated. In order to stay alive Filip followed every order of Stark’s (Man operating crematorium). Soon he saw the process of how the dead bodies were brought in by truck loads and then burned. I think that Filip was very brave to continue working with the dead bodies and carry out orders. Although he had no other choice but to work, he didn’t do a bad job carrying out orders and staying alive. As I was saying earlier these people want to remove all hope from the prisoners. When Filip states that there was nothing but a dreaded end for him I saw that he was loosing his hope, which was his determination that kept him going. His new determination was now fear and it seems to be working out for now. During his work hours it seems that there was an accident and Filip along with some of his friends ended up between the corpses. Eventually, Filip was relieved of his duties by French prisoners. The jail cell was three paces by three paces and there was no light or windows inside the cell. The jobs the prisoners were forced to do are despicable and beyond grotesque. The German’s used the Jews to clean up their messes and caused the prisoners to suffer tremendously. All of the German officers that were part of the Nazi party are going to