Objectivity And Subjectivity In In The Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin

The Holocaust was one of the deadliest and most tragic time in history. Hitler and his Nazi Party rounded up all the Jews in Europe and sent them to concentration camps. Both the sentences I just used had both objectivity and subjectivity. Objective means the sentence is based on facts, and are not influenced by opinion, while on the other hand, subjective, however, is the opposite, where the sentence is based on the author’s feelings or opinion. Objectivity and subjectivity in articles can impact the reader on how the reader will interpret the article. The article, “In the Holocaust Museum”, by David Oliver Relin, provides subjective statements, as well as, objective statements and the author impacts the reader using connotation and opinion.

Another thing is the connotation, wherein the quote, it says the enormous and charred corpses. The author chose enormous to express how big the pictures were instead of saying big, and the author used charred corpses to really make the reader feel that these bodies have been destroyed, instead of just saying, dead people. Another quote from the article is, “They learn of the creation of Israel in 1948, which provided sanctuary for many of Europe's remaining Jews.” This quote also shows objectivity because it states an exact date on when Israel was established and where most of the Jews live today. A connotative word used in this quote to impact the reader is the word sanctuary, meaning a place of refuge or safety. This word was used to tell the reader that the Jews have finally found a place to stay after many years of being under Nazi control. For my last quote from the article, it says,

A quote in the article that shows subjectivity is, “You get the feeling that you're trapped, that something bad is about to happen.” This quote shows subjectivity because, in the quote, it says that “you get the feeling you are trapped”, meaning the author is expressing what it felt like to be Jew, how the Nazi’s trapped them into concentration camps. A connotative word that impacts the reader is the word trapped. This is because when he used trapped, it gives the reader a feeling that he is isolated and captured. Another quote from the article is, “The buildings have been designed to make visitors uneasy.” This quote states that the museum was built to make visitors uneasy and this is subjective because the author is telling the reader that the building is very frightening and uncomforting. A connotative word in this quote is the word uneasy. This is a keyword because the author especially used the word uneasy instead of using words that uncomfortable. A final quote from the article is, “you begin to feel the Nazi net tightening around Europe's Jews.” This quote shows subjectivity because when the author says that he can feel the net tightening around him, he is explaining how the Jews and other “undesirables” felt when the Nazi’s were tightening their hold around them. A connotative word in this quote is the word tightening. The author