Also, prisoners turned into capos and sided with the Nazi’s. They would beat the other prisoners for food and to survive. The novel showed that people will do anything to survive, no matter the cost. If a person has to be cruel and hurt other prisoners they will. It’s sad, but people will do what they think will benefit them no matter the consequences. Frankl needed to find a meaning of life, and he found it in the concentration camp. To begin, Frankl’s point of writing this book is to didactic and rhetorical to inform the reader about his three stages that prisoners will go through during their time at the camp or until their death. The first stage is shock. When the prisoners first arrived to the camp they did not know what to expect. But once the train pulled up to the camp, and they got a glimpse of what the camp looked like and what the other prisoners looked like, they knew right away this could not be good. The prisoners knew this was not going to easy. Once the prisoners stepped off the train, that’s when everything became real. They arrived at Auschwitz, a place with crematoriums, gas chambers, and death.
Also, prisoners turned into capos and sided with the Nazi’s. They would beat the other prisoners for food and to survive. The novel showed that people will do anything to survive, no matter the cost. If a person has to be cruel and hurt other prisoners they will. It’s sad, but people will do what they think will benefit them no matter the consequences. Frankl needed to find a meaning of life, and he found it in the concentration camp. To begin, Frankl’s point of writing this book is to didactic and rhetorical to inform the reader about his three stages that prisoners will go through during their time at the camp or until their death. The first stage is shock. When the prisoners first arrived to the camp they did not know what to expect. But once the train pulled up to the camp, and they got a glimpse of what the camp looked like and what the other prisoners looked like, they knew right away this could not be good. The prisoners knew this was not going to easy. Once the prisoners stepped off the train, that’s when everything became real. They arrived at Auschwitz, a place with crematoriums, gas chambers, and death.