Primo Levi refers to the experience in the Lager as the new bible for one reason, and one reason only. Levi’s experience during the Holocaust bears a striking resemblance to the story of Moses in the bible, both of which emotionally illustrate the harshness of human suffering, and the will to survive. In Moses’ time his people, the Hebrews, were persecuted in a way such that each first born child was sentenced to death. …showed first 75 words of 836 total…

…showed last 75 words of 836 total…the exodus of his people from a land of terror in Egypt. Both Protagonists lend us examples to live by, and give us the ability to put our own lives under the microscope, examine ourselves, and compare out fortune to the misfortune of others. And enable us to not take for granted the physical freedom which we exercise, the emotional and psychological freedom we can express, and the political and ethical freedom which we assume.