Levi shows signs of hope when he comments about "today being earlier than yesterday, today a little warm than yesterday" because he is able to stay alive, therefore a winner. The cold is personified since it said to "call a truce" after two months. A "truce" is offered when a party has given up and can no longer attack or gain anymore. This emphasizes on his hope for victory after two months. Again, truce is associated with war which elaborates to the reader that, to survive, fighting is compulsory.
Exaggeration is used by Levi to show the start of his good day, "Today the sun rose bright and clear for the first time from the horizon of mud." "For the first time" shows the exaggeration. He uses this method to show that he's in a good mood, for spring is near. The third and second paragraphs contrast each other. One is saying how the "wind penetrates our clothes and runs in violent shivers over our defenseless bodies" while the other says "I felt its lukewarmth through my clothes". This is to further emphasize the improving conditions.
On the sixth paragraph Levi describes his acceptance of his women and children dying in Birkenau and his acceptance for himself and other's future ending there as well. "Our women finished there, and that soon we too will finish there; but we are not used to seeing it." "Not used to seeing it" suggests to the reader that Levi and them cannot imagine themselves ending in Birkenau, in other words, not accepting their ultimate fate.
Levi describes the surroundings in Buna like a monster or ugly beast and personifies it. He describes it as the "entanglement of iron and negation of beauty" with dull colors "opaque and grey". He personifies the camp by describing the "soil is impregnated with poisonous saps." Simile is used, "We look around like blind people have recovered their sight, and we look at each other" which is to emphasize that winter has passed and spring has come. It shows their joy and happiness from surviving the winter. / However after the cold has left, the thought of starvation arises again and is the new enemy.
The steam shovel that buries the murdered is personified to "vomit" and "mouth-full". This is to show that Levi portrays the steam-shovel as a monster which will be shoveling him into its mouth and vomiting it out. It has also been a good day for Levi because the Polish workers have abandoned their 10 gallons of rancid tasting soup and have been given five extra minutes to drink it. This suggest to the reader how desperate each one is to survive, as none complain or compare with their former lives, but choose to accept with what is given. All dignity seems to be lost since everyone is thriving to survive. No one could care less about their status and what they are compared to.
At the end of the day, the simplest rights of a human are felt as a reward, such as not being beaten or able to think of their mothers and wives.
