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This 4 page paper discusses two books on the Holocaust: Victor Frankl's "Man's Search for Meaning" and Elie Wiesel's "Night." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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and differences between two of their books, Frankls Mans Search for Meaning and Wiesels Night. Discussion Frankls book ends on a note of what he calls "tragic optimism," a sense
that even though awful things happen, men can survive and thrive. The tragedy comes in because they will keep going through the same things again and again-if not precisely another
Holocaust, then a war or other tragedy in which man will once again prove how beastly he can be. But even in the midst of the worst conditions imaginable, Frankl
finds that men have a choice. He is working in the concentration camp hospital, and describes the degrading and inhuman conditions there; he tells of waiting for an inspection, which
was really a form of torture, and of constantly picking up the straw that delirious prisoners kicked onto the floor. He finds himself "shouting at the poor devils who tossed
in their beds and threatened to upset all my efforts at tidiness and cleanliness" (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). The atmosphere of brutality that prevails in the camp leads to repeated
outbreaks of violence so that he had to refrain from hitting the patients: "For ones own irritability took on enormous proportions in the face of the others apathy and especially
in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most prisoners simply struggled to stay alive and
did whatever was necessary to do so, including working for the Nazis and stealing from each other (Frankl, 1984). But he also remembers clearly the few that were different, that
did not behave like this; that did whatever they could to comfort others, including giving away what scraps of food they had (Frankl, 1984). This behavior, which was completely against
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