Summary Of At The Holocaust Museum By David Oliver Relin

Have you ever been to the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.? The article “At the Holocaust Museum” By David Oliver Relin walks you through the museum that replicates the concentration camps. This article could be debated as more objective or subjective. Objectivity is factual, measurable, and observable, while subjectivity is opinions, interpretations, feelings/emotions, and point of view. David Oliver Relin wrote this article balanced with both objectivity and subjectivity.
In the article information is told through the objectivity. A quote from the text to show this would be “...gruesome footage of British soldiers pushing children's corpses into a mass grave with bulldozers.” This sentence uses negative connotation to create a picture of something sad and depressing happening. Another example of objectivity would be “Inside, the walls are paneled with plain gray steel.” I this sentence tone is used to make you feel uneasy, uncomfortable, and/or not safe. Also tone is used to make the room feel like your in a prison. The last textual evidence would be "In 1933, there were more than nine million Jews living in continental Europe. Within a dozen years, two-thirds of them would

An example from the text would be “They ran it all like a factory.” The impact of figurative language was used to show that the germans thought it was okay to kill people because they weren’t like them, pure german. Another example would be “You get the feeling that you're trapped, that something bad is about to happen.” The word choice is subjective because it it only in the author's perspective. The last example is "This probably smells like perfume compared to what it was like with 100 people inside," In this example imagery was used to make a picture in your head. This causes you to get a glimpse of what it was like in the cattle cars. These examples show that there is subjectivity in the