"Nature's Revolt, or the Refusal of Nature's Revolt" is the idea that though such terrible events are occurring everyday (in the novel) Nature continues as if nothing is wrong. 
There are several references to the SS soldiers to being pigs. The animals found in various stories, take on the role of protecting or guiding the Jewish victims. The SS soldiers act as brutal killers, void of humanity.
"Animals Being More Human the Humanity" is the idea that the animals are more human than the humans in Fink's stories. They no longer continue to struggle, but rather follow instructions, as commanded, to their death. In this collection, it relates to how the living become dead, before they are killed - meaning that the living, after losing all sense of hope, lose their will to live. "Life versus Death" is a key theme to understanding the Holocaust. A Scrap of Time is filled with such traumatized language. To a survivor, a tree may connote lynching, therefore the word has become traumatized. Even once such simple, romantic notions, like "tree", have taken on a sinister connotation. This is because World War II has created a global effect on the world's psyche, and therefore, words have failed to express the terrors of such events. 
"Traumatized Language", an idea coined by Brinkley and Arsenault, is the idea that language can no longer be the same, as it was, before the experience of trauma, in particular, that of the Holocaust. ( December 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification.
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