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 Rules You Want To Follow

 Have you ever had rules that you didn't want to follow? I have, but I would be grateful for a set of rules in the Holocaust. In the book the //Devils Arithmetic// there where two sets of rules in the concentration camp, the camp rules and Rivka's rules. Rivka was a girl in the camp that was trying to help the Jews. The camps rules are meant to keep the strong and useful people healthy and alive while eliminating the Jews unable to work, the ones that the camp kept alive were turned into slaves. If you had to choose from which set of rules which one would it be, both maybe?  The first set of rules come from the camp, Nazis, the Nazis in the camp, or Jews in the camp. Some of these rules are "You will work without complaints" meaning that you will never complain when you work, if your feet are sore ignore it or the Nazis may kill you. Another rule is "You will never attempt to escape" meaning that if you're caught trying to escape or hide from the Nazis, they will kill you. The last Nazi rule that I am going to talk about is "You will be disciplined" the meaning or this rule is to make you listen to everything they say and obey them. The intent of these rules is to make the prisoners forget their memories and make them mindless workers,or slaves, also these rules can be made to kill you if you are weak or not useful in the Nazis eyes. Their last intent is to make you scared, in the book if someone breaks the rules, they never come back. In my opinion these rules are cruel and unfair to the Jews. Even though these rules are gruesome you needed to follow them in the camps or you would die. Now to see if Rivka's rules would help you.  Rivka's rules were obviously made by Rivka. One of Rivka's rules is to "stay away from the Greeks", this was one of her rules because Greek Jews did not speak the language(Yiddish) that everyone else spoke, making it hard for them to follow the rules. Knowing the Nazis, if one person breaks the rules they would probably take the people around the Greeks as well to make sure that nobody would break the rules. Another rule is "follow everything the Nazi's say and you won't die, but no matter how hard the Nazi's try, do not forget your past." This is a rule because with your memories there is hope of survival. The last rule to talk about is to "Stay away from the Nazi's hospital." If you get hurt you have to stay away from the Nazi hospital because if the Nazi's know that you are weak they will kill you. The intent of these rules is to help you survive, to not lose hope, and to not be afraid of the Nazi's.  Now, would you be brave and not follow the Nazi's rules, would you be hidden fol owing Rivka's rules, or would you follow both sets of rules? After this I would follow both. Knowing if you don't follow the Nazi's rules they will kill you and knowing that if you don't follow Rivka's rules you would die, you really have no choice but to follow both sets of rules. If you are stubborn and don't like to follow rules because one day they might save your life!