![]() The short stories "A Conversation" and "A Spring Morning" were adapted into a 2008 film titled Spring 1941. The stories in the collection are as follows: ![]() Metaphorically, since the war is man-made, it is of no concern to the natural world. The Natural world seems to exist outside of the war, but around the war at the same time. Grass grows above and around the fallen bodies. The birds can be heard singing between the gunfire. The other stories typically take place in the Spring time or in the Morning, when everything is becoming alive. Only once in the 165 pages of short stories is there a reference to Nature making a revolt (which in found in *). "Nature's Revolt, or the Refusal of Nature's Revolt" is the idea that though such terrible events are occurring everyday (in the novel) Nature continues as if nothing is wrong.There are several references to the SS soldiers to being pigs. The animals found in various stories, take on the role of protecting or guiding the Jewish victims. The SS soldiers act as brutal killers, void of humanity. "Animals Being More Human the Humanity" is the idea that the animals are more human than the humans in Fink's stories. ![]() They no longer continue to struggle, but rather follow instructions, as commanded, to their death. In this collection, it relates to how the living become dead, before they are killed - meaning that the living, after losing all sense of hope, lose their will to live.
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