“Man’s Search for Meaning” is Viktor E. Frankl’s dramatic narrative of his dreadful stay in one of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. His story elicits an initial mixed reaction of shock, disgust, horror, pain, and anger similar to Frankl’s first phase of an inmate’s mental reactions to camp life. But as pages of brutality unfold, disgust dissipates into darkness and apathy emerges. From apathy, however also develops an objective curiosity to the many “why’s” of the situation. Stripped to nakedness - without possession, without family, without, values - why would a man still want to live? Quoting Nietzsche: He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. Frankl in his work explores the depths of man’s values. He detaches himself from bleak circumstances to try to understand why others would run into electric barbed wires to end suffering while others would retain hopes even if held it only by a thread. He evaluated why some prisoners would turn against other prisoners for survival. He uncovered several revelations. Most striking for me, to which I subscribe also, was: “Man does have a choice of action.” It is this sentiment that left me speechless following the book’s conclusion. I could feel the universal themes of action and reaction that echoed within this story of survival and suffering. It has secured in me a better understanding of purpose; the “why” of living.