Analysis Of The Book ' Auschwitz '

The book Survival in the Auschwitz is about a young jewish man named Primo Levi who was tortured in the Auschwitz camp. “Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. ”(Levi). Primo had hope that his something good waits for him in his future. “But we don't, because of only one thing, hope.”

Primo Levi was taking from his detention center, Germans invaded and took over from there he was sent to a concentration camp concentration were he had no voice which was called Buna. At Buna they took his personal belongings such as his shoes and clothes. To make sure everyone looked the same they made everyone cut of any strand of hair from their bodies, from top to bottom and to also be sure they

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In Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi uses characterization to describe human nature, showing the reader how human nature and the nature of Auschwitz contradict and manifest. Beginning with how human nature manifests to Levi and transitions as it moves through the story.

Primo Levi or as the Nazi’s renamed him, 174517, was 25 when the Italian fascist captured him leading to his 11 months in Auschwitz. 174517 became his new way of identifying himself because it was believed only a man is worthy of a name. Its sad to say that the acts of genocide that was committed toward these people like Primo Levi, was not common in this time period. There were hundreds of different ghettos that people were sent to, unfortunately in Primo’s case, he got sent to the most devastating one of all, Auschwitz. Auschwitz opened in 1940 and was the largest of all the Nazi’s concentration and death camps. There were from 2.1 to 2.4 million people killed there. As Primo stated, in this camp they were only fed 4 rations of bread,

With Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi provides a stark examination of human survival in the dehumanized society of a Nazi death camp. Throughout the book, Levi reinforces the theme that the prisoners of the death camp are reduced to being no longer men, but instead animals that must struggle to survive day by day or face certain death. The story also brings to light the prisoners unrelenting hope and courage during all of this dehumanization, even though they knew they could die any moment, they still possessed such courage to develop relationships with each other as well as keep their heads up.

which would later save his life in the concentration camps. By learning these few things of Levi’s personality made understanding they way he writes possible. In Levi’s foreword he explains his reason for writing his memoir; it was not to be read as an account of atrocities because his added nothing to what is already known. Instead he wanted this book to, “furnish documentation for a quiet study of certain aspects of the human mind.” For his personal use this book was “First and foremost, as an interior liberation.” Overall I believe that Primo Levi wrote this book to satisfy a personal need, to liberate himself the memory of his time at Auschwitz.

itler edged on the bad rumors that jews had caused most of the problems in the world and created the largest concentration camp called Auschwitz. Some of these rumors included Jews being the sole purpose of losing World War One and the economic crisis. He would get rid of these Jewish people by extermination and pushing them to death by their living situations in these camps. During the start of this movement, he would steal the prisoners property such as clothing, rings, gold teeth, and things of this nature to detain jews of their rights and to gain profits. Hitlers whole purpose for the holocaust was to keep jews hostage in Germany with dehumanizing rules and regulations and treat them with violence hoping to get rid of jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and many others in his country.

Survival in Auschwitz tells of the horrifying and inhuman conditions of life in the Auschwitz death camp as personally witnessed and experienced by the author, Primo Levi. Levi is an Italian Jew and chemist, who at the age of twenty-five, was arrested with an Italian resistance group and sent to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Poland in the end of 1943. For ten terrible months, Levi endured the cruel and inhuman death camp where men slaved away until it was time for them to die. Levi thoroughly presents the hopeless existence of the prisoners in Auschwitz, whose most basic human rights were stripped away, when in Chapter 2 he states, "Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits,

Imagine being taken from your home, and being stripped of all possessions including your name. In the novel “Survival in Auschwitz,” a man named Primo tells his story about being a Jew during the Holocaust. He starts the novel when he was found after hiding for some time, and describes his day to day life until he is liberated. As the book goes on there are many examples of the brutal treatment and dehumanization of the Jews that the Nazis were a part of on a day to day basis.

Primo Levi’s memoir, If This Is a Man, details the everyday life and experiences of being a prisoner in Auschwitz. Levi’s writing manages capture and paint a vivid picture of just how much it took to survive in the camps. From the memoirs we have read, If This Is a Man has taught me about the Holocaust the most efficiently; its writing kept me immersed in the story, it taught me about life inside the camps, and it allowed me to recognize similarities between numerous Jewish survivors.

Levi observes of his fellow prisoners, particularly Charles, who displays critical qualities such as positivity, selflessness and resilience which become key influencers in Levi’s survival and rehabilitation. In order to survive Auschwitz, Levi saw men change as all guises of civility and societal norms were stripped away and their spirits crushed. By the same token, with a survival rate that was anywhere between 3 days and 3 months, to last the 10 months that he did, Levi had to change his thoughts, actions and values to make it the morally distorted camp environment. He had resigned himself to the fact that he would, along with the other prisoners, become “…the most primitive pygmy or the most vicious sadist” (Levi, 2004, p191). These characteristics are constantly compared and contrasted against Charles’, who reminds Levi that despite the desolation and abandonment that surround them, there is still hope.

The Interactive Oral presentation on the life of Primo Levi helped me grasp the concept of how the rise and fall of the Nazi empire affected Levi’s life as well as distinguish the cultural and contextual consideration of the book. Beginning with Levi’s unfortunate childhood; we learn that he is a very small and weak child, thus he got sick often. Because of his fragile body and being the only jew in school; Levi was often bullied. During his years in school, Levi excelled at academics and the subject he was most interested in was chemistry. After reading Concerning The Nature Of Things by Sir William Bragg, Levi decided to become a chemist. As a child Primo was forced by his father to partake in the Fascist Militia, to prevent him from being

Primo Levi was born 1919 in Turin, Italy. He was an anti-fascist who was jewish and was deported because of this to Auschwitz in 1947 during World War II. He explains his experiences in the excerpt On the Bottom, the whole story being named Survival of Auschwitz. Primo Levi’s experience through the World War II time period lead him to write about what he endured and what others had endured.

Primo Levi describes in his book, “Survival in Auschwitz,” the horrors inflicted upon the prisoners contained within Auschwitz and their struggle to remain themselves and to survive within the camp. The sign placed at the entrance of Auschwitz read the words, “Arbeit Macht Frei”, or “Work Gives Freedom”, an ironic statement considering the Nazis took everything away from these individuals that constitutes established human rights and freedom. Without the elements that make up a human being, there was limited freedom for the prisoners. What are the possible meanings of “Arbeit Macht Frei”, and could the prisoners obtain any “freedom”? While the freedoms of the prisoners were limited in Auschwitz, Primo Levi shows in his book, “Survival in Auschwitz”, that the prisoners could gain a sense of freedom through hope of release, death, or mental suppression.