Frankly Speaking

                   I have never been in a situation where my existence meant so little to the superiors around me nor in one where my hopes and dreams were so utterly decimated that I could hardly go on living.  I can therefore never fully understand the pain that Frankel and his comrades suffered from these horrible experiences in the concentration camps. My favorite part of the novel is where he speaks about the love for his wife and how it is one of the single greatest strengths that gives him the motivation to survive.  I think that one important theme from this book is for each man to find meaning.  He wrote that in order to survive each prisoner had to hold on to the thought of something on the outside so that their spirits would not be completely crushed.  Frankl’s love for his wife must have therefore been an unbreakable bond.