Summary Of Escape From Camp 14

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In the book Escape From Camp 14, by Blaine Harden, he argues that through concentration camps, people can become traumatized and inhuman from totalitarian dictatorship and we aren't doing enough to stop this torture going on or to end these specific ones we know about. The book is not really structured in any specific way. In the beginning it talks about about how shin was raised in the concentration camps and went on to tell his life story of how he came to the idea of his escape. Then it went to what he does now in life and how he lived right after he escaped and how everything for him has changed how he did not trust people and how his job hunting went. All the way at the end it was about how today he is helping causes to help the people in concentration camps survive. The structure of the book helps you understand what actually goes on in the camps and helps prove that it is torture and then it shows how it is still going on and some people are aware and are trying to help. This helps prove the thesis because when the structure goes chronologically it …show more content…

I don't believe the author is prejudiced or biased, because its more not of his opinions as it is of shins actual life story. Also i don't think that he was biased because nothing he wrote about besides the fact that concentration camps are bad everything had facts or shins story behind it. Regarding the fact that there were many people involved in the making and conducting the concentration camps this all took place during and after the cold war. Many things were more “important” and people didn't see what was really happening behind all the walls and how people were treated for silly reasons that imprisoned