theme

hmm i never thought food could be a theme but as we talked on how vladeks father did not want him to eat and how vladek wanted artie to each everything, whenever the war started and the men have to go out and find a way to get money, vladek's fatehr in law tells him how the family wants to keep on living like before, with the big banquest meals and all that. Food, then is rationed into coupons and becomes like a monetary system. Or when vladek and the others are sent to move mountains, how they were fed really good the first day so they could regaint heir strenghts, or before that how the polish prisoners of wall would get three good meals a day and teh jewish only once a day and very poor. IT is almost like, food is important because is sustains your body, because it nurtures your body but also because it becomes a monetary system to where it can save your life if you sell it or trade if for something else. (or save someone esle, like his nieces)