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Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz

For this week’s Discussion Board please choose ONE of the following options and write a three paragraph response making sure to refer to the text. Please also write a short (one paragraph) response to one other student. In every case, be sure to demonstrate that you have done the assigned reading.

1. Regarding the Preface: Read aloud and explain in detail the second paragraph, especially the claim “But when this does come about, when the unspoken dogma becomes the major premise in a syllogism, then, at the end of the chain, there is the Lager”(9). [Discuss in detail what the implications are of the claim: every stranger is an enemy.
   1. Every stranger (minor term) is an enemy (major term).
   2. All Jews are strangers (minor term).
   3. Therefore, Jews are the enemy (major term).
2. Write an explication of the poem on p. 11.