The speaker does not that those who died are not without blame in that "because they were stubborn," suggesting that their stubbornness was unwillingness cost them their lives in the end, another example of Klepfisz's implied survivor's guilt. The speaker holds more pity and sympathy for those who died and implies that whose who lived should not have because they went about it in the wrong manner commenting that those who lived did so "because they were lucky." This could be a comment on the unfair death of Klepfisz's father. it seems as though the speaker is implying that those who survived did so only through the abuse of others and did so unfairly. The idea of the dead asking for too much is in the direct conflict with the reason that those who lived did so "because they could ask." This is justified through the implied political injustices if on has money and/or power one could ask or use others, whereas the average person did no have that choice. because they could ask/ because they mooched off other and saved their strength." Again the diction here gives a distinctive negative tone in that the survivors lived only because they used others. The speaker claims those who died did so because they were stubborn and refused to give up/ because they asked for too much." The diction used here implies that will to live and the determination that is usually associated with the victims of the Holocaust, yet there is also a negative connotation used in that the speaker says, "They asked for too much." In the second par of the poem, the speaker claims those who survived did so "because they had no principles.because they were angry. In the poem the speaker tells the reason for the outcomes of victims of the Holocaust, death and life respectively.
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