Provide relevant textual support to strengthen your response(s): Explain how the cleansing ritual(s) of the children when they initially arrive at St. Jerome's is more than an attempt to remove "grime or odour."

The nuns and priests make Saul and others climb into tubs of scalding water. Priests throw delousing powder at them. They are scrubbed with hard bristle brushes.

It felt like they were trying to remove more than grime or order. It felt like they were trying to remove our skin. (44)