The Quiet Dndic Analysis

and soldiers of the Nazi Army on page 77. You remember how “Wirth installs the infrastructure for proceeding with mass killings. He builds an efficient little crematorium” for the Jews (pg. 81). “Is that how these people died?” you think and your subconscious further terrorizes you with this idea for it allows you to make the lives of the deceased come back to life. For it allows you to picture in your mind Zynger Jerachmil walking into the gas chambers while someone like Kurt Franz is watching, watching him walk to his death. It allows history, the unknown, the invisible itself, to rise like zombies from the ground to haunt you through the rest of Drndic’s story, just like we saw with her implementations of pictures and italics. As we reach

For not only does Drndic keep suffocating the reader in her immensely long sentences, but she also increases her usage of commas. These commas cause her long sentences to be broken up and jumbled. They do not flow and if anything they cause the tempo at the end of her story to increase. For instead of long flowing sentences such as, For sixty years now these blind observers have been pounding their chests and shouting, We are innocent because we didn’t know!, and with the onset of new wars and new troubles, we know see such sentences as …until Martha Traube informs me of the agonizing truth of my birth, I dig into nothing, into no past, just as many others never do, why should they, life goes on, look to the future (pg.93, 336).They cause the reader to feel like they are running so fast they are tripping over their own feet. For as the reader tries to run to the end of Drndic’s story these commas, keep tripping them up, and up, and up. For Drndic cannot merely allow her victim to escape without a fight. However, everything must eventually come to an end and so on the last final pages of Drndic’s story we, the reader, finally can catch our breaths. Her usage of commas, diminishes, her long sentences become somehow more manageable to the