The poem that Levi wrote in the very beginning of the book is very clearly about the struggles that every man and every woman faced every day in the concentration camps. The poem is about the struggles Levi himself had to face while at the camp. In the first stanza, Levi describes the reader who lives safe in warm houses with hot food and friendly faces. The second stanza, he describes just a few struggles the men and women prisoners of concentration camps had to go through, including working in the mud, not knowing peace, fighting for food, and no names. “Who dies because of a yes or a no.” (Levi) This is a direct correlation of sectioning off the Jews from the minute they arrive, to every morning in the camp. “Mediate that this came about:
