ften concerned with her thoughts and personal life while she is right in the middle of getting bombed. It might seem very petty at times, but those bombs were her life. She was not trying to make a story out of it. She was only writing how she lived. If one were to live in the middle of the battlefield during a war, one would still live their life. She could not have realized at the time that she was right in the middle of something that was changing the world as she knew it. How could anyone know that what is happening to him or her right now is history? To them, it is just their life. If Primo were to write Survival in Auschwitz as it were happening, the book would be completely different. The differences between these two books that are about the same war have many differences; however they have some parallels and similarities as well. The first major similarity is that they are about the same war. They have the same causes and the same factors effecting the same period in time. The Nazis are present in both books, and are viewed negatively in both. Their lives were drastically changed by the same war. They may have been in different situations, but the same reasons put them in those situations. They were from such different backgrounds, but brought down by the same thing. Everything was relative.Both Primo and Missy were living out of necessity; they had nothing of their former lives. Their personal belongings and loved ones were gone. Their lives were brought down to devastation and bare survival. They were lacking the means to live as they had always known. They had no control over their environment or how they lived. They struggled to live each day. One major parallel for them was food. They were both starving, Primo was starving as a form of torture, and Missy was just being severely rationed; but none the less they were both starving. Both of them wrote about food constantly, they obsessed over it. Food o...
