We explored the results of the author's dehumanization noting disparate responses to witnessing two executions. After the hanging of a young boy who writhes for hours on the end of a rope, the author comments that it is God who " is hanging on the gallows. "I provided instruction on quote analysis -context, paraphrase, and significance -and we practiced an analysis of this quote in effect a pronouncement that God is dead. We examined the implications of this conclusion to the author who had been a serious student and believer of the Jewish faith . We further studied the author's observation that the evening's ration of soup tasted" like corpses." Additionally, we continue to study the eroding relationship between the author and his father as survival becomes more important than family or love.