Chapter seven withheld more of a positive atmosphere rather than devastating and hopeless backgrounds in the previous chapters. In this chapter, Primo Levi explains how sunlight was seen in a long time. How the sunlight provided the prisoners with relinquished strength and maybe a little bit of hope.
Most of all, I believed that the sunlight would have reminded the prisoners of what it was when they too were free men. In chapter seven, the sunlight represented the connection of memories and gave glimpses of how it felt in the past. Through seeing the sunlight, prisoners were yet again happy to see themselves and comrades and maybe, just maybe the sunlight would have replaced giving up their will to live with hope.
Ironically, sunlight contained a negative connotation. Where in the first few chapters, prisoners or the Jews thought that the light of dawn was a sort of betrayal, that yet they opposed for the next morning to come. However, in this chapter, the sunlight was positive reminding the prisoners of freedom and happiness, a short moment of relief that they are still alive.
The chapter also discussed about how increase in ration delighted the hearts of the prisoners. Biological demands are heard to withstand. As a result, hunger was the most difficult to satisfy. Therefore, when rations were increased, the prisoners were pleased that they could assure their hunger.
Similarly, right now at this moment, when I am writing this journal, I fell hunger in my stomach. Because it is early in the morning, my stomach is almost empty. I feel to the point that it is similar to a stomachache how hard it is to endure hunger. It hasn’t eve lasted an hour and I walked to the fridge for food. I cannot imagine how the prisoners of the concentration camps could endure this kind of pain for many consecutive years.
They say that death from hunger is yet the most painful of all suffering deaths
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