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Title of essay What is a humans? an investigation of this oppugn by Levi and Buchner.Works compared If This Is a Man and Woyzeck.IntroductionIn the introduction to my essay, I will mention that Primo says a man is someone who kills, creates or suffers injustice, and that it is not the put of thinking man to wait for his neighbour to die in order to take his piece of bread.I.It is man who killsExamples will include the changeover from If This Is a Man in which a prisoner is killed in front of all the other prisoners in the camp because he took part in a revolt (this occurs in Chapter 16, page 155). Another passage that will be used is when Primo arrives at the camp for the first time and all the women, children, and gray-headed men are swallowed up by the night (this occurs in Chapter 1).Another example will be that of the killing of Marie by Woyzeck in scene XXII.II.It is man who creates injusticeExamples will include the passage from If This Is a Man in which we find out that there is a dripping tap in the bedrooms of the camp, hardly that the water is undrinkable (this occurs in Chapter 2). Another example that is found in Chapter 2 is that there is two inches of cold water on the floor in the shower room, so the prisoners cant sit down. I will also mention that the shoes of the prisoners where mixed up on arrival, and that the German soldiers werent kind enough to keep the shoes in pairs. This is terrible for the prisoners, as Primo says himself, because death begins with the shoes. Also, the Germans banned the prisoners from carrying straw under their clothes to cherish themselves from the cold.Examples from Woyzeck will include the fact that the doctor makes use of Woyzeck by making him eat only peas, knowing that he (Woyzeck) has no other choice since he is desperate for money.III.It is man who suffers injusticeThis part of my essay may be welded with the previous part so as not to have to repeat examples again. I will simply analyse how man copes with the injustice that is inflicted upon him.IV.To wait for his neighbour to die in order to take his piece of bread is further from the model of thinking man then the most primitive pigmy .