2007년 3월 11일 일요일

Journal #14

Chapter 14. Kraus

What I saw from chapter 13 comes out as a main theme in this chapter, but now it seems more hopeless.
"What a good boy kraus must have been as a civilian: he will not survive very
long here, on can see it at the first glance, it is as logical as a theorem."
In this quote, I found that Primo Levi is not only judging whether Kraus is going to survive or not, but he actually shows condescending attitudes toward him.
It seems that as time goes on, prisoners have more and more pressure that they have to overcome in order to survive. What makes me more curious is how the survivors are going to live. Can they live in a normal, ordinary way just like others? Can they forget about the atrocities they have gone through for months? Some people get too much pressure and stress that they have psychological impact from them and lose their abilities to live ordinarily. Well, seeing that Primo Levi wrote a whole book about his experience with lots of details, he was definitely unable to delete all the memories, but he handled with them without going crazy. There probably are, however, people who lost their control over the memories.

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