The travellers left their homeland for a place of unknown, on a ship where communication was only through hand gestures as "shreds of dialogue hung from fingertips". ... The painful memories of the Nazi regimes in Wold War 2 are expressed in the simile "like cattle brought to slaughter", "the metaphor "pigeons that watched them" gives a sense of surveillance "light turned red and dropped like a guillotine" shows a constant reminder of death in the minds of the refugees. ...

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