Survival In Auschwitz And Primo Levi's Survival In Auschwitz

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Over history in Europe it is easy to see the changes humanity has tried to push on itself. While some changes are slowly accepted by the people, democracy for example, some are completely rejected, the internment of the Jewish people in World War Two. What about the human race causes this pattern to form, especially in Europeans? The average European shows the world his/her ability to resist by the essence of hope, the human ability to grab onto any and every last strand of it that they can, this is seen especially through scenes in “Primo Levi 's Survival in Auschwitz” and somewhat in “Joseph Conrad 's Heart of Darkness” and “Karl Marx 's Communist Manifesto”.
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No other place has there been a pressure so large on a group of people to change and the entirety of the people resisted than the concentration camps of the holocaust. An excellent account of a life lived in the concentration camps is the novel “Survival in Auschwitz” by Primo Levi. This novel tells the story of an Italian chemist, who is Jewish, that is captured by the Germans while he is helping a resistance force. After his capture he is sent to Auschwitz ran by the S.S., the most brutal concentration camp of the holocaust. In his first day there he spouts one of the most influential quotes, “Man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly." (1.3) The camp was all about survival, all he worked for, all he gave up, and all the things he had to do to survive in the camp, he did for the small shred of hope that if he survives he would make it out of that god forsaken hell hole. The ideological pressure of the world was telling Levi to give up, there was no hope in trying, just die; but, Levi saw that hint of hope and without a thought, his mind and body latches onto that small strand of hope and never let

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