Nonfiction authors generally have a purpose for writing: To inform, to entertain, to persuade, or a combination of the three. Consider the purpose of your book. For your comment on this post, include a quotation (with the page number, as always) that shows the author's purpose for writing. Then, in a few sentences, explain what the quote reveals about purpose. Comment by Friday, 12/7.
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Joshua S.
12/7/2018 04:21:40 pm
"I have always wondered what it would have been like for an outside to have witnessed firsthand the gathering dark of Hitler's rule. How did the city look, what did one hear, see, and smell, and how did diplomats and other visitors interpret the events occurring all around them?" (Page 1). The quote tells the reader that even the author was wondering what it would have been like in Berlin during Hitler's rein over Germany, which is what the main story is about. His purpose seems to educate readers on the questions he had himself, while also telling readers that he was figuring it out, but instead of through the book he was writing, he found out through photographs and books of the era.
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Joshua T.
12/7/2018 05:45:39 pm
"Fromm in her diary recorded her initial observation of Dodds. Martha, she wrote, seemed 'a perfect example of the intelligent young American female.' As for the ambassador, he 'looks like a scholar. His dry humor attracted me. He is observant and precise. He learned to love Germany when he was a student in Leipzig, he said, and will dedicate his strength to build a sincere friendship between his country and Germany." (Page 45-46). I believe that the Authors purpose in this book is to educate. It is easy to see their purpose in this quote due to its inclusion of a diary entry. The diary entry allows for a description of a character come from someone else.
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Alex Mitchell
12/7/2018 06:52:42 pm
"Depending on one's point of view, Germany was experiencing a great revival or a savage darkening" (Larson 41). When I saw this quote, it really caught my eye. I think that Larson is trying to inform to us here that there are two sides to every story. In the eyes of German officials, Germany was booming as a country, while in the eyes of a non-German, the corrupt government was rising to power.
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