Outside Reading #5

For this outside reading I read some more pages from my outside reading book called The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom. In this section the book takes a dramatic turn and it is not for the better. The Germans caught them and bring them to a jail. There the father of Corrie Ten Boom dies shortly after being locked up. The rules at this prison are very harsh. Food is very little and comes usually as bread and some form of oatmeal in the morning. Corrie gets brought to solitary confinement and the quote, "solitary prisoners are not permitted to talk! If you say another word to one of the work-duty prisoners it will be kalte kost for the duration of your sentence" (149 Ten Boom). This is just one example of the restrictions put on the prisoners. While in prison the prisoners will go see a judge or somebody to judge your actions. Corrie gets a man named Lieutenant Rahms. He is a very nice man who takes great interest in the Bible when Corrie starts explaining it to him. Eventually conditions of the prison are changing and the Germans are forced to move the prisoners. They load the prisoners onto a bus and move them to a concentration camp. Once there Corrie and her sister get a pink slip and a fellow prisoner tells them that they will be free. However, after "a few days Betsie and I were called up for work assignments" (176 Ten Boom). These pink slips did not mean freedom at all just a pass to work in another camp deeper in the forest.