mrs gilmore, the method in which i have been forced to utilize in writing this book review does not allow me to use the capitalize button on my keyboard. thus, you will not see a single capital letter on here. thank you. and it turns out that i am unable to use the 'enter' key as well.
the book that i have been reading is titled 'trotzdem ja zum leben sagen. ein psychologe er lebt das konzentrationslager' (Man's Search for Meaning) and written by viktor e. frankle, holocaust survivor. the book, as you may have concluded, details the experiences of the everyday man inside the barbed fences of auschwitz. frankle experienced these horrors first hand and the accounts within this book were written within approxmiately one year of his release from the death camps, 1946-1947. although the reader might expect the book to be more about the terrors of camp life but in actuality, viktor intended the book to be about the psychological aspect of the average prisoner. prior to the war and his entrapment, viktor was a prestigous psycholigist and therapudic doctor. he took advantage of his time of travail within the fences to study the mental approach taken by each camper he came across, along with himself. the primary message that viktor desired to send to the reader was how one could maintain the will for survival through such hopeless hours, which he hoped could be applied to those who suffer from depression or are experiencing a challenging point within their own lives and so forth. initially viktor intended to remain anonymous in writting and publishing the book for he did not want the reader to acquire the false assumption that his primary goal in writing this book was for wealth and noriety but rather for the reader to recieve a positive outlook on life. .
the book begins with viktor introducing himself and how his journey to the camp began, but he begins to elaborate the emotional truama that had overwhelmed the new inmates.he details the process in which the prisoners were seperated into two groups regarding their appearence of being sutible for manuel labor.those who were unsutible according to the capos were immediately sent to the 'showers' for cleaning and relaxation, although there was nothing relaxing about where they were eaded, the gas chambers. viktor escaped extermination by lieing about his age for he was too young for the guards to allow him to live. initially, the prisoner was terrified, afraid of death, but after a prolonged exposure to theatrocities of camp life and the ever so common sight of your friends and family dieing, a prisoner loses the desire to carry on. in actuality, many inmates desired death over enslavement. some did choose to commit suicide rather than suffer. the human desire to live has deteriorated and the prisoners reverted to mere animals. (Now I am able to use caps and the enter key)
Style: Viktor's style of writing is similar to what you would in scientific report detailing the behavior of animals, although his writing ability proves that he has written books before. He allows the reader to ask their own questions along with proposing quite a few himself. Since this work of literature was translated from its original text so I cannot give you an accurate analysis of his "style". Although some say that the translation tends to be 'dry', I find it suitable for my taste in work. A very serious, in depth analysis of the inner workings of what makes a human 'tick'. I find that the book was quite easy to read since I am not very interested in the fantasy land books of today's teenage youth. I prefer
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone. It is considered to be one of the most influential books in American literature. "Named one of the ten most influential books in America by a Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club Survey of Lifetime Readers"
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