Chapter Twenty-One 168
"You come in through the front gate, but the only way you leave is through the chimney, the guards told us when we arrived. Ha! Look at me now, I wanted to shout, walking out through the front gate, the way I came in! I had survived the ghetto. I had survived Plaszow, and Wieliczka, and Trzebinia, and Birkenau, and now Auschiwitz. I was going to survive it all. I was going to be alive when the Allies liberated us. This I swore."
Commentary
Another example of finding like in the Darkness, Although Yanek sees to be sarcastically cheering himself up, I think this motivates him a lot. Also, he's still determined to surviving. That's a good sign.