The final post on: The Lazarus Project

(I accidentally blogged on a reading for next week, I'll use that as next week's blog and go ahead and do the following blog for Friday's credit. Sorry for accidentally skipping ahead.)

The Lazarus Project has been a relatively good read, especially better than what I was expecting. I'm not into reading as much as I probably should be, so I tend to dread assignments that require a reading thats more then 50 pages! Anyways, for the last section of the book, I'm going to blog on the section from 241 to 245. It starts off with a gruesome depiction of Mr. Mandelbaum being destroyed and beaten. He is slowly torn apart, begging for mercy and recieving none. After presuming him dead, the story continues to display more disgust of these people who are hurting them. They ransacked Mr. Mandelbaum's story and evenutally made their way into his house. Every member of the family was scared and in shock, while the narrator kept thinking to herself that there is no way they could enter their home, for it was her home and did not belong to anyone else. Boy was she mistaken! The pogroms even knew their names when knocking down the door to perform more destruction. I thought this was disturbing just as the narrator did, how in the world would they care to know anyone's names that they were about to harm? And if they did know them by name, why would they be harming them in the first place? The swine attempted to rape the woman holding Lazarus, and this caused Lazarus to lash out and attempt to save her. He was then hurt badly and sounded as if he had been thrown around so bad that he was dead. By the end of the story, the narrator and Roza were the only ones left, apparent from the movement. Roza did not speak and she just peered out the window, emotionless.

I decided to blog on this piece because I feel like it captures more the disgusting treatment that the pograms felt necessary. I feel for these people who obviously did nothing wrong but were shamelessly hurt. It's odd to think that such pain could be inflicted on a person and the one doing this, the pogram in this case, feels no remorse. It's unreal to think that a person could live with even hurting a child like they did Lazarus in this section. This all relates back to the entire theme of the story and the end plot of Lazarus being unlawfully shot many times for false accusations. The assumptions people make on behalf of their own well-being is absurd!