At The Holocaust Museum By David Oliver

The Holocaust was arguably the worst event in human history where half of the jewish population in europe was killed by nazis. The innocent jewish people were killed in nazi death camps where they were killed with the intention to rid europe with the jewish people.Some articles are subjective (words or phrases that provide feelings or opinions ) or objective (Word or phrases that support facts or reasons without including opinions or feelings).In non-fiction articles there are some that are all objective and some articles are balanced between subjectivity and objectivity. My text: At the Holocaust Museum by David Oliver is balanced between subjectivity and objectivity with many examples of both.

This article is has many examples of objectivity

to support a balanced text. In the texts it says “ In 1933, there were more than nine million Jews living in continental Europe. Within a dozen years, two-thirds of them would be dead.”This statement shows the fact that after the holocaust two thirds of the whole population of jews in europe would die from arguably the worst event in human history. This makes the tone of the text more scary and dark because this fact is dark and helps the reader imagine the horrible events that happened. This shows the author's point of view on the subject as something dire and horrific. This is factual evidence of objectivity. In another part of the text it states “6 million Jews and other victims who were systematically exterminated” This fact shows that it wasn’t killing specific people, it shows that the 6 million people were exterminated like a factory. The word choice shows that there wasn’t much thought about the 6 million people but it makes it seem like they were just dust blown into the air to never be seen again. This is an objective statement because it is a statistic. My last example of objectivity is “Stark brick and steel halls echo the look of the barracks and gas chambers of Nazi concentration camps.” The word choice of this evidence shows imagery of the nazi camps to make people feel uneasy and scared of what might come next. This is objective imagery because it was made to be like the real concentration camps. This text provides a lot of evidence that supports that it is objective.

The article has a lot of subjectivity in it with plenty of evidence to back it up. Evidence of this that in the text it states: “You get the feeling that you're trapped.” The word choice in this piece of evidence shows imagery of the feeling that you can’t go anywhere. Which makes the reader feel uneasy which gives us a feeling and so the feeling creates subjectivity. Another example of subjectivity is in the text it says: “imagining the terror of being locked inside.” The word choice that the author uses makes the reader feel the terror of the people being locked inside the train. This is subjectivity because it created a feeling about being locked in the train. My last piece of evidence is a sentence from the text that states “It hasn't been a pleasant process and not everyone is glad they've come.” This piece of evidence shows that the people weren’t all happy and glad they came to the holocaust museum but it was worth knowing what people went through. It was an opinion to say that they weren’t happy they came but others may be happy that they came so this created subjectivity. The text provided many reasons why it is objective but just as much reasoning that it is subjective.

In the text it has many supports to show that it is objective and subjective through many facts and opinions throughout the text. Looking for objectivity and subjectivity is important when reading/ analyzing the text so you can know if something is factual or opinionated.