Passage from Page 107-108.

On page 107 and 108, Kluger explains the story of her being told to lie about her age to avoid the gas chamber. Her mother told her to lie about her age and she did not know why. Because she defied her mother, she was most likely going to go to the chamber because she was 12. However, a stranger saves her life by telling her to say she is 15. Then the guards say she looks healthy and good enough to work in the fields. I thought this passage was a good example of doing on both the part of Ruth and the stranger who told her to lie. The stranger told ruth to say she was 15 years old and it resulted in her life being saved. The stranger helped her even though it didnt benefit the stranger at all. This shows a level of altruistic behavior within the camps. The stranger was a clerk for the Nazis too, opposing the perception that all Nazis and people working for the Nazis are bad people. For Ruth, it shows how she was willing to put more trust in a stranger than her own mother.