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This represents the Jews seeing how mean people can really treat one another. It also shows that instead of being there for each other in these times they all turn against each other.

In the story this theme stands out a lot. Everyone sees how mean people can treat each other and how cruel people are. Ellie sees people being cruel but, he also sees in himself how he has become cruel. Its also not only the Germans being cruel but also the prisoners being cruel to eachother. This makes me mad because I dont understand how people could murder so many other people and not even feel guilty about it. I think this theme gets to a lot of the Jews and troubles them very much.