The Holocaust Rhetorical Analysis

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The Holocaust was a very depressing and tragic time for Jews. Hitler and his Nazis killed over 6 million Jews . Objectivity is facts, data, statistics, and/or true information. Subjectivity is emotions, feelings, and/or opinion. The article, The Holocaust, Part Two: The Final Solution , by History.com, adapted by Newsela staff, is mostly objective, but includes some subjectivity in an attempt to suit to the reader’s emotions.
The article has both objective and subjective points in it. Here are some examples of the objective. In the text it states, “Nazis killed 500 prisoners using poison gas.”, The word choice in this sentence sets a very depressing tone. It makes you visualize hundreds of people falling to the ground and dying from the gas they inhaled. In the article claims, “At Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million people were murdered?”, The word choice in this sentence shows a tone that is
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Here are some examples of the subjectivity. In the text it states, “We lay in a world of death and phantoms," Levi wrote. "The last trace of civilization had vanished around and inside us.” This sentence gives off a sort-of spine-chilling tone, because of the emotion Levi used when saying this. It also makes you visualize a bunch of death around you. The second thing it says in the text is, “The wounds of the Holocaust were slow to heal. People who survived the camps found it nearly impossible to return home”. This has a concerned tone to it, due to the comparaison of what the Jews went through to wounds. Also, the people returning from the camps finding it nearly impossible to be accepted back into their old homes and neighborhoods. The final example from the text is when it says, “A disturbing sign of the coming Holocaust”. The tone of the sentence is scary or disturbing mainly because of the word choice, and the visualization of what happened during the Holocaust, and the amount of people who were