The part that really touched me in the section that we read was the letter from Erika. It was a very small part and not really significant but it touched me more than anything. The way that she described how she was all alone in the dark saddened me and I felt a slight attachment to her while reading her letter. In the beginning of the letter she describes her self hiding from these murderers that she addresses as "they," im assuming that these are the officers in charge of killing. At first I didn't really think much of the letter, I thought it was sad how her mother and brother were taken, but what really hit me was what happened to them after they had been captured. The detail that she went into describing how they stripped and trampled innocent people like human gravel etched a picture into my mind, it was like I was there and seeing everything that was happening. Then after that they were forced to bury their own grave and be brutally murdered, I was thinking in my head, how could somebody be so cruel as to do this to somebody. I could barely continue reading the letter after that because it was just so gruesome and I don't know how she was able to endure hearing that. As I continued reading the letter it became more and more disturbing. She explained that she didn't shed a tear when she saw her mother and her fiance dead and beaten piled one on top of the other and that she wouldn't shed a tear if her father died and if she were to be killed. That was really disturbing because she was even saying that she was trying to get her self killed, I didn't understand her reasoning for that. She had a chance to survive this nightmare and she wanted to just end it stupidily. I was wondering if it was really that bad living there that you would just want to kill yourself. On page 70 she said "There are no hearts. All hearts are dead. How does one bury a heart? I am writing something to you. It's good to tell it, but who are you? Are you alive? Didn't they murder you yet? Too bad if you have too died--then you would not get this letter from a girl named Erika who had a dead heart." that quote stuck in my head for the rest of reading the section because I just felt so bad yet so disturbed by it. Her letter really got me.