A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw | Social Sensitivity
Life in the Warsaw ghetto of the early twentieth century could be rough, even brutal, and Singer does not gloss over the conditions he endured as a child. He graphically describes the lack of running water and bathroom facilities, the filth and vermin, the abject poverty and disease in stories such as "The Shot at Sarajevo" and "Hunger." Singer also depicts the cruelties human beings inflict upon one another, but they do not receive undue attention. Singer remembers that despite deplorable circumstances individual acts of kindness and charity, even from those least able to afford them,...
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