Journal #17

Journal #17-from chapter 17 Overall, this is the last chapter of the book. This shows the true desire of how willing Levi was to survive the life in a concentration camp with others. Having to live with fear and no hope for many years must have been miserable. Freedom and going home must have brought happiness, but at the same time Levi must have felt fear. You have lived in the concentration camp for so long that you no longer even know who you are. You start to worry how you would survive after leaving the camp. Your life must be better leaving the camp, but you are use to living the life in the concentration camp. At some point you were ashamed of your breed, ashamed that you were a Jew. However, as you lived in the concentration camp, you learned to be a man. A man without any hope. A man who desire you live, but at the same time who wishes to be gone in this world. From the overall book, I am able to view each chapter differently. Each chapter taught me a different lesson and allowed me to put myself as a Jew. I think each chapter had a purpose to show a different life style. However, overall I really think that this book was trying to show that even though many people are different from race, religion, and breed we are all equal. Humans are cruel, but we are all equally cruel. The only difference in humans are that we have different views and these views affect our lives. We should make a change in the world rather than separating others from the world. We should help others that are different from us and share our love rather than discriminating them. Levi was successful to show the main theme and make people believe that they actually lived in the concentration camp.