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    A Study Guide for Primo Levi's "A Good Day"
    A Study Guide for Primo Levi's "A Good Day"
    A Study Guide for Primo Levi's "A Good Day"
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    A Study Guide for Primo Levi's "A Good Day"

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    A Study Guide for Primo Levi's "A Good Day," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literary Themes for Students: Race and Prejudice for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9781535816731
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      A Study Guide for Primo Levi's "A Good Day" - Gale

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      A Good Day

      Primo Levi

      1947

      Introduction

      As a chapter in Primo Levi's 1947 Holocaust memoir Survival in Auschwitz, A Good Day offers an intimate, first-hand account of life in World War II concentration camps. The attempt by Nazi Germany to exterminate Europe's Jewish population in the 1930s and 1940s stands as one of history's most notorious episodes of racism and hatred. Millions died in camps created for the express purpose of genocide, and the majority of those murdered were of Jewish descent. It would be easy to simply acknowledge that the events occurred and avoid the details of what happened to these people, for they are appalling and brutal. However, for those who survived, the urge to bear witness—to make humanity confront what was allowed to happen and in doing so perhaps prevent such inhumanity from occurring again—often struggles against the instinct never to revisit such a debasing experience. Levi had the misfortune of being one of thousands of Italian Jews transported to the Auschwitz camp in Poland. He was one of the few to survive, return to his native land, and resume his life as

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