Argumentative Analysis Of The Holocaust Museum

The Holocaust was one of the most uncalled for pieces of history for human events in the world. There are many written articles about this period and most of them had have a huge impact on the reader whether they are written objectively or subjectively. Holocaust texts that present information in a factually way, produce an objective perspective of the Holocaust. This can make the intention of the reader appeal to the reader’s intellect and inform the reader for information. On the other side those written in a more subjective way focus on expressing the reader’s emotions. Both methods of writing can affect the way a reader both takes in the article and comprehend actual historical events. The article, “The Holocaust Museum,” has shown how the author uses language and his attitude to produce this subjective document.

In the article, “The Holocaust Museum” the author uses language to change the way the audience interprets it.

One of the sentences he uses is, “The buildings have been designed to make visitors uneasy.” The author had used the word uneasy to provide detail of how you feel as if you were there. It also to grabs your attention as the reader to feel the same feeling as the visitors. Another phrase he uses is, “You get the feeling that you're trapped, that something bad is about to happen.” The author used the word trapped to lure you in to the text and to bring out your emotion. Lastly one thing the author says is, “As you descend to the third floor of the museum, you begin to feel the Nazi net tightening around Europe's Jews.” One of the words he uses is, “net tightening,” this word makes you feel that your there and your emotions are just pouring out as if you are there witnessing it live and happening. In this article the author has used the element language to express his

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Another element the author uses is facts and sources to express emotion of the audience. One quote he uses is, “The Corder family hunches over one monitor and watches gruesome footage of British soldiers pushing children's corpses into a mass grave with bulldozers.” The author shows how the soldier pushed the corpses but adds subjectivity of the “gruesome footage” making it an emotional fact. One more phrase is, “They learn that Gypsies, homosexuals, political prisoners, and the handicapped perished alongside Jews.” This sentence has facts but, he added words to add emotion such as, “perished”. With adding this word he added emotion and opinion of how they died into the article. Lastly another piece of evidence is, “Suffering through the worldwide Depression of the 1930s and still smarting from their defeat in World War I,” this is a fact since Germany did lose WWI and they are providing how they have dumped it off on the Jewish for Hitler to have his uprise from underneath the Jewish people. As it says that they were still “smarting” from WWI they have found a way to get to their people and gain power. The article has use facts for an element to express subjectivity.
After reading and conducting research from, “The Holocaust Museum” it has been seen as a subjective article. When reading articles it is best to identify if the article is subjective or objective to identify the way the author is persuading it. If the audience does not see all ways the perspective and is shown the directly at one way than they will not fully comprehend what the article is try to portray.