Assignment 2: Cattle Car Complex

Cattle Car Complex is a short story by a Jewish author, Thane Rosenbaum, who infuses his fictional writing with the historic elements of the Holocaust. I would like you to read the story and afterwards you will do the following;

• Write a 1 paragraph summary telling me about what you read.
• In a separate paragraph, tell me why you think the author writes about Jewish characters reliving a time period that they did not live in.
• Draw a picture that is split in two, one side will have what happens in the mind of the character in the story and the other side will have what happens in side the elevator.
• This assignment is due 10-24-08