Sophie's Choice

            The scene we watched in the movie was the scene where Sophie was standing in line at the concentration camp with her two kids.  A German soldier comes up to her and starts asking her questions.  She didn’t know how to respond to these questions because she didn’t want them to have any excuse to kill her. 

            The soldier told her she had to give them one of her kids to be killed.  She said that she could not choose and she wanted to keep both of them. I couldn’t imagine having to choose which one of my kids I would want to stay alive. Since the soldier was yelling at her, she could not even think straight so she just gave the soldier the one she was holding.   

            I was really upset when I saw this clip because Sophie was put in an extremely uncomfortable situation having to decide which of her kids she wanted to keep alive longer.  If I was in her situation, I would not be able to choose.  I honestly would not know what to do. 

            The soldier threatened to take both of her kids away if she did not give them one of them.  I guess when she realized it was either save one for now or loose them both in the beginning.  I think her decision was effected by the soldier yelling at her.  Also, we were not able to tell this, but it could have been that she felt the older one was stronger and had more of a chance of surviving because of his strength. 

            Still, I would never be able to make a decision like that.  I would have probably just told them to take me too because I would never be able to live with knowing I picked one of my kids to die.