Man's Search For Meaning By Mor Frankl

“Man’s Search for Meaning” is a book that is told in first person perspective from Viktor Frankl about the holocaust. In this book Frankl explains all the ins and outs of his time spent in the concentration camp. As he encountered many other men and heard their stories, he learned more about himself through his journey. Although Frankl had dealt with such humility, he still held his head high to find his true meaning after such distraught.
In the beginning of the book “Man’s Search for Meaning” Frankl describes how once arrived at the camp, each and every person became nothing but a number. They were packed into trains, eighty per train with their luggage as well. After spending such long hours in these trains, someone had seen the sign for “Auschwitz.” As they were unpacked off the train they were visually searched limb by limb and then separated by left …show more content…
The first time Viktor decided to stay back with his sick patients, the second time their first two trips went as planned but their third when they planned to escape did not. Eventually they sent trucks for the remaining prisoners due to the camp needing to be evacuated, although the chief doctor did not include either in the last truck since he thought they were still planning to escape. While waiting for the next truck to come they had woken up to the others who are left and the chief doctor to take cover due to the outbreak of battle. The last section of Viktor Frankls book describes what logotherapy is and an explanation to what is written in his book. This is where Frankl really talks about the search, this meaning we have been reading about through the entire book. In this last part everything comes together. As each persons meaning is different from one another, it gives us a chance to find what has been hiding all this time. As stated; pain, guilt, and death also known as “tragic triad” are the aspects of human existence (Page