During the fourth part of the book, it continued to talk about what logotherapy is and different aspects of logotherapy. Two of my favorite he talked about (because if I did all of them this summary would be too long) were The Meaning of Love and The Meaning of Suffering. The Meaning of Love was important to add because he said when someone is in love with someone that person is able to see all of the unlimited potentials that person holds. Therefore pushing that person to reach their unlimited potential and to accomplish their goals, because that person lets their lover become aware of what he can be and of what he should become. The Meaning of Suffering was important because I really good point he brought up was that when you are put into a situation that is not able to be changed you can either pity yourself and let yourself crumble or you can transform that situation into a triumph/challenge to change yourself.
If I had to write a mini sequel to this book I would choose to expand on the first part of this book. Specifically, phase three (which is the period following his release) because I feel that for the other two phases he went really in depth and gave lots of personal connections, but for the third phase, he only talked about what he observed or what other prisoners had gone through. If I had the knowledge to write more I would write more about how he felt when he got released from camp. I want to know if he had any family waiting for him? Or if he was mad at the world for taking his liberty and ever so abruptly giving it back? I want to know more about how he felt when all of the mental stress from being a prisoner in a camp was taken off his shoulders ever so rapidly? I have so many questions on the final phase, that is why I would choose to expand on phase three. I would recommend my book to a friend because I felt like this book was not your typical holocaust book we read in class. In this book there was no hero saving people, there was no heroic story going on. This book really helped me understand how an average day in camp life was like and what happened to someone's mental state when they were a prisoner. I will comment on Leslie's blog and Angeli's blog.
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I started reading part two of the book (there are two parts) the second part of the book is Viktor E. Frankl explaining Logotherapy in a nutshell. Logotherapy focuses on the future, it is about the meanings to be fulfilled by the patient in the future. It basically helps the patient look for a meaning in life or a goal to look forward too. Logos is a Greek word that means “meaning”, that is why logotherapy focuses on the meaning of human existence as well as on man’s search for such meaning.
For the “putting yourself in the book” I am going to focus on the last phase of camp life which is following his release and liberation. This is because this is the phase which I found to be the most interesting. When I was thinking of how would I react if I was liberated from a concentration camp, my initial thought was that I would go back home and be grateful for every day and I would be grateful for everything. After thinking about it a bit more I feel like I would be the person who thinks they can do bad because bad has been done to me. Personally, I feel like I would be mad at life for putting through all of that (Being in a camp) and not getting any reward. Because If you really think about it when most of those prisoners who were liberated and sent home they had no family to find because most of them were dead or lost. I would honestly be mad, even if in my ideal world I went back home grateful to be alive I know that would not be the case. I will comment on Angeli and Leslie blogs. So far of the book went over the last two phases of how was everyday life in a concentration camp reflected in the mind of the average prisoner, the last two phases of were the prisoners being well entrenched in camp life and the period following his release and liberation. One of the main symptoms for phase two talked about what the lack of feeling shown/felt by the prisoners. Most of the prisoners have given up hope or didn’t care about what has happened to them. They also stopped caring about watching people die and stopped caring about other people. Then for the last phase one of the main symptoms was the feeling of “depersonalization” this is because after being liberated from camp life they were released from all of the metal stress they had. They could not really grasp onto the fact that they were free men. This is because for so long being free was just a dream something they longed for everyday and now that they had it, it felt unreal like a dream.
Unlike most books my book didn’t really follow charters they followed actions and events, so they weren't really any consistent charters and he did not use people’s names. (The only consistent charter was Dr. Frankl, who also shared his personal stories to prove his points) I chose three events that included 4 charters that helped shape the book with their experiences. The first charter was a young women who knew she was going to die soon and basically reflected on her life thus far. She talked about how in her previous life she was spoiled and did not really take her spiritual life seriously. Now she was grateful that fate has hit her so hard, so she could realize what she had. She also mentioned how her only friend in the camp was a chestnut tree that talked back to her, and the tree said “I am here- I am here- I am life, eternal life.” The second event was two cases that were almost suicide cases, both men had talked about committing suicide. There argument was the typical argument prisoners used they had nothing more to expect from life. The other prisoners had to make both of the prisoners realize that life was still expecting something from them. It turned out that one of the prisoners had a child who he adored and longed to be with, and for the other prisoner it was a series of books which still needed to be finished. They needed to understand that another person could not ever take the place of father in his child affections, and that his books could not be written by somebody else. The last event that takes place after the liberation of the camp, one of Dr. Frankl’s friends used his freedom licentiously and ruthlessly. The man basically went from being the oppressed to the oppressor. The incident happened like this Dr.Frankl and his friend were walking in the field when they stumbled upon a field of green crops. Dr. Frankl obviously tried avoiding the crops so he would not damage them but his friend pulled on his arm and dragged him through the field of crops. Dr. Frankl became annoyed and said why did we walk all over the poor baby crops. His friend became mad and said isn't is fair for us to do this after so much has been taken away from us. Dr.Frankl’s friend justified his behavior by there own terrible experiences. The men who thought similarly to this man had to be guided back on the right direction and realize that even though wrong has been done to them no one has the right to do wrong. My partners are Leslie and Angeli.
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