The Value Of Teaching History Through Fiction Analysis

The writer of the Point article, "The Value of Teaching History Through Fiction" had the main idea that historic fiction could make readers relate more to the story and might have them want to learn more about the subject. For instance, in the Point article it states that, "...fiction can make history matter—make it irresistible—to young readers” This tells us that fiction could make historic events seem interesting to readers and make them want to know more about it. Another detail that supports the Point article's main idea is when the text states, "The goal of good fiction should be to move people. It should move them to laugh, to cry, to care, to think... History too should move people—or else how will they learn from it?" This supports
For example in the text it says that, "for the older reader, of course, Bruno’s innocence comes to stand for the willful refusal of all adult Germans to see what was going on under their noses in the first half of the 1940s.” For younger readers, she argues, the story’s slow release of details “becomes an education in real time of the horrors of ‘Out-With,’ known to the grown-ups as Auschwitz" This shows us that the story could be taken as adults ignoring the events taking place around them or as a slow release of events in real time in Auschwitz. What Hughes says helps support the claim made in the Point essay by showing how historic fiction could benefit people in real life. All in all, Kathryn Hughes' view of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is that it can mean different things for adults and for
For instance, in the essay it says, "Young Bruno mishears “Auschwitz” as “Out-With” and “the Führer” as “the Fury.” As Cesarani points out, “any normal German nine-year-old would have been able to pronounce Führer and Auschwitz correctly.” This shows us that it is impossible for Bruno to mispronounce these words for his German background. It also says in the text that the some of the puns and language Bruno uses wouldn't make sense as his main language is German. This helps support the author's claim by having the wordplay mislead some readers to not know what out-with and the fury really stand for. In conclusion, the wordplay Bruno uses in the book is inappropriate and it helps in the writer's argument.

The word conundrum means a type of question or statement that's confusing. I this from the Point article where it says, "...the great conundrum of the Holocaust is that it was perpetrated by human beings, not monsters. Few movies have rendered this puzzle so powerfully.” The way the word conundrum was used made it seem like it was a question and the second sentence used the word puzzle to describe how the Holocaust was done by humans also helped by making the word conundrum seem as a puzzle or something confusing. As you can see, I think the word conundrum means a question or statement that's