Primo Levi describes his incarceration in Auschwitz through the lens of his practical/logical mind. While he certainly witnessed questionable things and suffered, his account of Auschwitz is less graphic then that of Elie Wiesel’s. Primo Levi was already twenty-four years old when he had been captured and unlike Elie Wiesel was not a very religious man. Primo did not find himself praying or even turning away from God in the midst of the atrocities, but solely relied on his logic and degree of optimism to survive in the concentration camp. Hence, he often discussed the trades that would occur in the concentration camps among the prisoners. This is depicted when he talks about the trade between the “high numbers” or new arrivals and the “low