Beatrice, Virgil, and the case of missing justice.

             Beatrice and Virgil is a book about surviving evil. this book ventures into the idea that the holocost has not been told threw mediums of fiction. In this book, Yann Martel opens our minds to violence, hatred, love, justice, and torture. The deeper you go into this book, the less justice you will find. this book, has two different stories in it. the play, and henry's life. and their is injustice in both. 


            This book has two main characters. Henry, a writer who helps his "friend" the taxidermist finish a play he has been writing his whole life. the deeper you get into this book, the more you learn about the play. the more you learn about the play, the stranger the play gets. The play, also has two main characters. Beatrice, a donkey, and Virgil, a howler monkey. Bother are symbols of real people. victums of the holocaust. In the play, you first learn that beatrice and virgil are hiding. they are hiding from people, they are hungry. they do not know where to go. and they are on a gigantic striped shirt. literaly. In the first scene the Taxidermist asks henry's help on, the taxidermist describes there being three signs that say "ATTENTION" "FELLO CITIZENS" and "BEWARE" and they describe the two animals. each sign ends in something humanistic like "untrustworthy" or disposed to dishonesty" this is not fair because beatrice and virgil never do anything bad in the play. they do not show any violence or harm to any other people. Beatrice does tell his story of what hapend when he got arrested. he was tortured. drowned. beaten. nailed to a floor. and was put threw other ruthless manuvers. in the play, beatrice and virgil create a hand gesture much like the the one hitler supporters used. beatrice and virgil even deside to name the experiance they go threw "the horrors" and the taxidermist even says his play is based on the fact of murder. but it is not this that i found the most stricking are  the "Games for Gustave" at the end of the book that really throw me off and break my heart. it is painful to know that those are really questions people had to ask themselfs. And it was not right that they had to. 
i believe Yann Martel was trying to make a point in all this. he wanted us to realize just how bad the holocaust was then. how unfair it was. he brought up a point in my mind. What does justice after horrible atrocities, such as the Holocaust, look like? Is it ever too late to achieve justice?  how are you able to bring justice to the millions that were tortured in this epidemic, and the 6 million that died?


          on the other side, of this book. the taxidermist does something really unjustified. Henry wants out of the play, and tries to walk away,but the taxidermest reacts. and for the fist time. henry sees him smile. all henry wanted was to walk away from the play. but the taxidermist would't let that happen. justice plays no part in this. The taxidermist dies happy, and henry is left to pay for it.