Mans Search for Meaning, Pages 1-42

In the beginning of the book, Mans Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankl, allows the reader to see into the life in a concentration camp specifically from Frankls point of view. I found this to be quite challenging and heartbreaking as I have read throughout these pages. The push for survival and to forget the horrors surrounding them the focus among the prisoners interested me. What I  found most interesting was the concentration on nature. Nature largely impacts the narrator and those surrounding him. For example, while working out on the train tracks he looks up at the sky and sees the beauty around him and the sun setting. This distracts him from his horrors for a brief second, allowing for some beauty to be seen during the treacherous and ugliness of a death camp. I also found it curious how they spoke of food so often. When food is rationed from you it is all you can think about. Your entire life becomes occupied by your own malnutrition therefore many prisoners talked about food. Food, for many, is also a source of comfort, allowing them to feel intimate with another inmate as they sheared recipes and spoke of what they could not have. Overall, these pages lead me to wonder why and how this evilness could exist, although interesting it is also horrifying killing millions in the process.