Friends and Food..

“ Don’t worry about friends. Believe me, they don’t worry about you. They just worry about getting a bigger share of your food.” Maus ll, Vladek, PG. 56 I think this quote means that people in Auschwitz and in other concentration camps cared more about food than friends because food was the thing they needed the most. Some people in camps don’t really care about friends as much as they care about food. I found in one of my resources that belongings and food were both on top of a Pyramid of Survival. Which means that food is one of the biggest things that you need for survival. My reaction to this was that I totally agree with Vladek on how he explains food is needed to survive. Food was amongst the most important things in camps/ghettos. This event could be also related to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. According to Google,”His theories parallel many other theories of human development Psychology, some of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans. Maslow used the terms Physiological, Safety, Belongingness and Love, Esteem, Self-Actualization and Self-Transcendence needs to describe the pattern that human motivations generally move through.” Vladek said this when he was working on someone's roof and trying to be some sort of tiles on it. Another job of the horrible camp of Auschwitz. I would relate this to all parts of the ghetto where everyone was crowded. I would connect this to survival because its basically surviving a living nightmare. Friends and food were rare, just like the chances of surviving the camps. Reason being is that it was such a hard life in the ghetto too, but it was much harder to find food. So many children smuggled their way out to go find some food, even it was even a piece of bread the children still went out to get some sort of food. The children smuggling out was dangerous because of the consequences they had or risk if they were caught. .