“The Cage” written by Ruth Minsky Sender is a memoir about her experience as a Jewish survivor of the holocaust. In the first few chapters, it depicts life in a ghetto in very descriptive language and creates very vivid imagery for the reader. Sender was one of the three children living with their widow mother in a small apartment. They had very minimal income and was living off low amounts bread and water. They lived in what was depicted as a cage (hence the title) in fact, “the gates of the ghetto in Lodz are shut tight. One hundred eighty thousand Jewish men, women, and children are herded together inside a barbed-wire cage” (Sender 24). They have no way of escape and are living in a densely populated area. This creates an environment where “tuberculosis and dysentery [can] hit every home and spread like wildfire, taking hundreds of lives daily” (Sender 25). With no way to earn money, hospitals have no way to give cures to all people with sicknesses. People were being ripped apart from their families, children living without parents, parents without children. It was winter and people were freezing with no wood to burn for heat. It was a miracle that people could survive in the ghetto, let alone a labour camp.