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Foe: Uncertainty and Terrible Endings
Well, I gave it another shot, and all in all I can whole heartily say I didn’t like this text. This wasn’t my first time reading Foe, and honestly, both readings have given me a great deal of dissapointment. I must admit though, that the first 120 pages sparked my interest and I found far […]Continue reading →
Foe
My expectation of “Foe” was that it would feature Susan Barton’s time on the island with Crusoe and Friday for the majority of the novel. In reality, Susan’s time on the island takes up less than half of the whole … Continue reading →Continue reading →
Survival in Auschwitz
Like many other people have said here, I also have some background with the history of WWII and the Holocaust. Going into Levi’s text, I probably had more background with the issues and themes at hand than any other texts, and perhaps this is the reason the text was so touching to me. Being half-German […]Continue reading →
Survival in Auschwitz
The Holocaust is a period of history of which I have some prior knowledge as my schools have taught me about World War Two and the Holocaust. However not only did I learn about the Holocaust in school, outside of school it was also easy to continue learning and widening […]Continue reading →
A Response
Reading If This Is A Man (which I’m going to call this book rather than the disgustingly simple title of our book) impacted me in a new way that I hadn’t experienced before when reading about Auschwitz and the Holocaust due to … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Thoughts on Survival in Auschwitz
I come from a Jewish family, and I regularly attended synagogue and services when I was younger. Because of this my parents and grandparents have always placed an importance on learning about the horrors of the Holocaust, and have had … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Survival in Auschwitz
In school, over the years, I’ve ready many books and storieS about the holocaust and it’s victims and survivors. There have been countless movies and the like which also depict this period in history however Levi’s biography is a startling … Continue reading →Continue reading →
Auschwitz: At Man’s Limits
If there’s anything that Survival in Auschwitz emphasizes is that not only the importance of the physical survival of man, but the mental and moral survivability of man. Auschwitz’s as Levi emphasizes is completely different from the outside/normal world. It … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Primo Levi: Significance of Account
One of the reasons my blog is almost late (but not late) is because Survival in Auschwitz is difficult to analyze. It’s written really well and simply. In one sense, it was the easiest book to read so far just … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Survival in Auschwitz
Like all Holocaust stories, Survival in Auschwitz sparked many emotions within. At times it was shock, others despair, and never really was there a lot of happiness. Many of us are very familiar with the events of the Holocaust, the tragedies and unthinkable cruelties often times being used for film plots. However, when I hear […] Continue reading →