Wiesel goes on to mention, “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we though about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread” (Wiesel, 115). Those lines are eerily similar to what Levi wrote, when he states, “To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgement” (Levi, 150). In coming to this realization both men recognize that despite having lived, the cruelty inflicted upon them by both the German guards and their fellow prisoners at Auschwitz had left them less then human in a sense, when they were finally
Wiesel goes on to mention, “Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That’s all we though about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread” (Wiesel, 115). Those lines are eerily similar to what Levi wrote, when he states, “To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, docile under your gaze; from our side you have nothing more to fear; no acts of violence, no words of defiance, not even a look of judgement” (Levi, 150). In coming to this realization both men recognize that despite having lived, the cruelty inflicted upon them by both the German guards and their fellow prisoners at Auschwitz had left them less then human in a sense, when they were finally