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The Events of the Summer

“I believe that it was due to Lorenzo that I am alive today; and not so much for his material aid, as for his having constantly reminded me by his presence, by this natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our own, something that someone sill pure and whole, not corrupt, not savage, extraneous to hatred and terror; something difficult to define, a remote possibility of good, but for which it was worth surviving.”

Lorenzo was a kind of person that helped Primo survive the horrible things that happened inside the concentration camp after all. Lorenzo was the only hope of staying ‘pure and whole’ because he himself stayed to live with moral standards. He had lived a different life than other prisoners because he didn’t always follow the crowd. He would be the type of person that would stand up for what he believe in and for what is right to him. Lorenzo had showed Primo that there is still kindness and good existing in the camp and also in the outside world.