These three chapters present three events (a conversation with a friend, creating and sharing poetry, the birth of a child) that have both positive and negative consequences for the prisoners. Choose one of these chapters and explain what are those positive and negative consequences. As always, support your answer with quotes or examples from the reading.

Partnoy 1
Discussion on first selection of Partnoy’s The Little School

1). Torture, disappearance, rape and other forms of state terrorism intend the dehumanization of the victims, who are completely deprived of their rights and treated as less than human in order to scare them, traumatize them, and also terrorize others.

In today’s selection of The Little School, look for one example of how guards dehumanized prisoners and one example of how prisoners resisted that violence by humanizing themselves and others.

Partnoy 2
Partnoy – Selections from The Little School 2.pdf

2) These three chapters present three events (a conversation with a friend, creating and sharing poetry, the birth of a child) that have both positive and negative consequences for the prisoners. Choose one of these chapters and explain what are those positive and negative consequences. As always, support your answer with quotes or examples from the reading.

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