Research Paper On Night By Elie Wiesel

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Night Essay The novel Night by Elie Wiesel, the documentary One Day in Auschwitz, and the article “Auschwitz” are all sources that talk about the tragedies of the Holocaust. Each one of these expresses the concentration camps in a slightly different way by using different points of view. However, they are all related. The authors of each of the sources above use the point of view as a way to advance their point on to the reader/viewer. The first source looked at was the article “Auschwitz”. In this source, the reader is being strictly informed about the concentration camps. The author uses facts like, “Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans” (“Auschwitz”1). Through this quote, and throughout the whole article, Auschwitz is being described through an objective view. The author chose to write an article to inform the reader on the camp without the feelings brought in from someone who actually witnessed it. The reader is just getting …show more content…

This documentary tells the story of Kitty, a holocaust survivor, and things she went through. Kitty uses her experiences to have an influence on the overall video. When asked about hunger during her time in the camp, she says, “It is a total obsession, the worst thing anyone can experience” (One Day in Auschwitz). In this quote, Kitty is being subjective by using her feelings and thoughts about things to influence the viewer. She wants to get the point across of how bad the situation was. Along with using her feelings, Kitty also uses objective point of view to provide facts and real events that went on. This allows the reader to take the real situations and be able to connect them with how she was feeling. The use of first person expressed by this documentary was beneficial to the viewer because they were able to be receiving information from someone who witnessed the camps first hand and the feelings that aroused from

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