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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Joey Travis
12/4/2018 11:36:21 am
I believe Diane Ackerman's purpose in "The Zookeeper's Wife" is mainly to inform. Ackerman takes a unique perspective for a book about WWII, that of a Polish citizen, not a Nazi or Soviet or Jew. I get my belief in Ackerman's from the quote: "The zoo animals are in a much worse situation than we are ... they're totally dependent on us. Moving the zoo to a different location if unimaginable" (53). I think this quote show's the author's purpose because it show's how much of a humanitarian Antonina was. I believe that Ackerman's purpose was to show that even though every moment was dangerous, life still went on during the war. Antonina had no other choice but to fend for her animals, because they were somehow in a worse situation than she was. Although all books are made to entertain, I believe the biggest purpose of "The Zookeeper's Wife" is to inform us readers on what how life went on during the war.
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12/6/2018 02:40:01 pm
I believe that Diane Ackerman wrote "The Zookeeper's Wife" in order to inform and persuade. This is evident in the quote "Jan and Antonina found Nazi racism inexplicable and devilish...they pledged, despite the hazards, to help more Jews, who had figured importantly in Jan's childhood memories and loyalties" ( Ackerman 111). Diane wants to show us just how brave some citizens were throughout the Nazi oppression, risking their own lives to save those of others. These great people are rarely focused on in other books, but their great deeds need to be brought to light. She wants to persuade us to do what is right, even if the stakes are high. The Zabinskis could lose everything by taking this risk, but because it is the right thing to do, they stoically assist some people in need.
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Presley S.
12/8/2018 07:48:47 am
I believe that the author wrote this book to show people that, even though this is a war story, the characters Ackerman is writing about almost couldn't bear the possibility of war. It shows the perspective of a regular citizen and not someone fighting in the actual war, so in a way, Ackerman might also be writing about how even though the public knew of the war, they didn't want to believe it was actually possible. In chapter 3, Ackerman says the quote "War wasn't something Antonia wanted to think about, especially since her last experiences of war stole both her parents" (Ackerman 38), which shows that you don't have to be fighting in the war for you to be affected by the war, war becomes personal for everyone living in that area at that time because sometimes war isn't left on the battlefield
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ms.p
12/11/2018 11:16:22 am
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