Could you imagine what the world today would be like if it was back in the 20 century? Would it be the same or different? Think about it....if we did not have the people that helped make a change, will the world still be the same like it was before. The story This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen has me thinking could we as people today survive what these people had to go through. "Babies, hideous naked women, men twisted by convulsions" (Borowski 705). At this point, your family is no longer a family. Your not in control anymore, your family is seperated and you do not know where each other is. You know longer have a normal life or the life you always known, watching your children grow up. Now your worries are, are they alive. There was only two things that the people asked for: Water and air (Wasser! Luft! 706). We are lucky enough, we can just go to the kitchen and turn on the sink and we have running clean water. And these people not only fighting to stay alive as long as they can but they just want water and air. That is why after reading this story and know what I know now about differnt things, I do not think if these events occured right now that we would not know what to do. We would be just like the poor innocent people that had their life changed at an instant.