“We know that tomorrow will be like today: perhaps it will rain a little more or a little less, or perhaps instead of digging soil we will go and unload bricks at the Carbide factory. Or the war might even finish tomorrow, or we might all be killed or transferred to another camp, or one of those great changes might take place which, ever since the Lager has been the Lager, have been infatigably foretold as imminent and certain. But who can seriously think about tomorrow?” (Pg 133)
It is terribly incredible how the camp changed the minds of the people. It not only mentally made the prisoners to be machine-like but also physically. They didn’t care about their lives for tomorrow and they were so indifferent to their future. However I think it is false to say that they did not have any hope or the mentality to survive camp at all. Without that little hope, there wouldn’t have been any survivors in Auschwitz. Although Primo Levi have stated that he didn’t care and didn’t fear the death, and didn’t care if he were to die tomorrow, Primo was being sly and clever to not to waste any unnecessary energy and to strictly go by the survival rule that existed in the Lager. If he really didn’t care for his life, wouldn’t he have just thrown himself to the electric barb wire and die there than to die in the crematorium? I think people have that kind of mentality, but they just don’t realize it.
