Descriptive Essay : ' An Artist '

Obviously nothing justifies the heinous treatment of Jews in concentration camps, but Levi gives us reasons why he believed the SS were able to treat Jews in this way. He believed that the prisoner’s appearance after a few days, “dirty and repugnant,” could have been a source of the terrible treatment; it is much easier to oppress those who look almost inhuman. Levi also believed the treatment was just another way to prove racial superiority. The ability to completely suppress and

From the very title of the novel and beginning poem Levi implores us to consider the essence of what it is to be human, presenting to us the thought-provoking question, if this is a man? Levi this way allows us to engage on an emotional level with the events of the holocaust and examine our own consciences, and as he details in his preface ‘furnish documentation for a quite study of certain aspects of the human mind’, and accuses society of subconscious reasoning that ‘every stranger is an enemy’. In explicit stripping the prisoners depicted in the text of their humanity, making this uncomfortably apparent to us as we are consistently encourage to draw comparisons, or rather contrast, with our own lives and hence are perhaps

Levi was the type of guy that was always walking around with a smile on his face. He was always there for people who needed him. He would give someone the shirt off his back to help them out. He was the type of person to defend the people who weren’t able to defend themselves. He was a very dedicated, kind, and loving person. May he rest in

Primo Levi, a 24-year-old Jewish chemist from Turin Italy, was captured by the fascist militia in December 1943 and deported to Camp Buna-Monowitz in Auschwitz. The trip by train took 4 long days in a jam-packed boxcar without food or water. Once there, interrogations by the SS of age and health determined life as a prisoner or untimely death. Levi along with hundreds of fellow Jews were stripped of their clothes, given rags to wear, had their heads shaved

Society encounters wounds everyday, whether mentally or physically. Do you think society is worrying about those wounds becoming memories at a later date? Levi does this because he has experienced what it feels like to have a terrible experience turn into a horrific memory, which is what makes Levi’s writings

Sometimes, we love to hear the story of a tragedy. For example, some of the most well liked tragedies of all time include Gone with the Wind, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, many of Shakespeare’s plays, and a Streetcar Named Desire. These are not only stories though; they have their sadness but throughout there is also hope and there are also morals, these are things to gain by these stories. The story the Levi needs to share with us has no hope, it has no moral storyline that we can learn from

Levi was born to die. He is a tithe, which means his parents had ten children, with the intention of donating one child to the church. Since

Not only did Levi want to expose the horrors he experienced along with thousands of others, but also for another reason. Personally, I believe Levi wrote this out of an almost motivational push for his readers. My conclusion on this is because he survived Auschwitz. Levi overcame many obstacles, such as: lack of food and water, poor clothing, horrific sleeping conditions, and illness along the way. I am taking away from this book new information, but also the motive behind Levi sharing his story. I believe his motive in sharing his story is to exemplify strength and to hold on tight and push through life. Of course, Levi’s experience of this example of “strength” is much more significant than what we can relate to in our daily lives, but overall, to portray persistence. This persistence is to know your life has a purpose and to create a strong endurance in life, no matter what obstacles you might have to overcome. I acquired this idea throughout the book when Levi shared the traumatic obstacles he overpowered and came out of the traumatic event a

When Levi was captured by the fascists, during his interrogation, he admits that he is a “Italian citizen of Jewish race” as a way to explain his presence in the mountains. Levi thought this would help him escape punishment but based on history, he has sentenced his own self to a consecration camp. (Levi 1.4) Before he is sent to Auschwitz, he sent to a detention camp within Italy and he’s held there until the SS show up a month later. The SS officers announce that all the Jews in the camp will be sent to different camp but don’t inform them of the location. It isn’t until on the train that they learn about the place as described by this quote from Levi, “We had learnt of our destination with relief. Auschwitz: a name without significance for us at that time, but it at least implied some place on this earth.” (1.20) From this it is believed that most people had very little information or ill will about Auschwitz. They knew that this transportation for them likely meant death, but the horrors of Auschwitz had yet reached the world. Even though the public didn’t fully know what was going on, the German military were completely aware. This is seen when a German soldier, that is with Levi on the truck with a group of Jews who were loaded onto heading towards Auschwitz, asks them for their money and watches. The German knows that

He was an Italian, an atheist, and a Jew. He went to the University of Turin and graduated with chemistry Ph.D. Levi “wasn’t fond of the Italian literature program” (Paris Review). He says in an interview that he always loved chemistry. Primo Levi was “a man with very many friends, who nevertheless was isolated from the world by his depression” (jochnowitz). He was caught by the Fascist Militia and imprisoned

Levi was an Italian Jew and chemist, who at the age of twenty-five, was arrested with an Italian resistance group and sent to

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.

The Germans have destroyed the human inside the prisoners and they became helpless and becomes submissive to the extent of just doing whatever they are told. The prisoners are deprived of their family, their clothes, and basically all their possessions. Without anything from the outside and nothing to hang on to, a man can easily lose himself in a place with unfamiliar people who are also experiencing the same. Primo Levi forgets almost all his knowledge from being a chemist. He forgets about his dignity and his limits.

Ever Since I was a little girl, I dreamt of becoming a skilled artist and seeing the world to uncover the mysteries that ancient artists had to tell. Art has always been a huge part of my life ever since I first held a crayon in my hand. From redrawing characters from

"A picture can paint a thousand words." I found the one picture in my mind that does paint a thousand words and more. It was a couple of weeks ago when I saw this picture in the writing center; the writing center is part of State College. The beautiful colors caught my eye. I was so enchanted by the painting, I lost the group I was with. When I heard about the observation essay, where we have to write about a person or thing in the city that catches your eye. I knew right away that I wanted to write about the painting. I don’t know why, but I felt that the painting was describing the way I felt at that moment.