The purpose of a biography is to report on a person’s life in an informative and entertaining manner. At the end of any biography, the reader should feel that they know the subject on a personal level. Unfortunately this feat is unachievable because it is simply not possible to gather and report on every fact in a comprehensive and unbiased manner, while making it entertaining to the reader. The biography that shall be focused upon within this report is “Outwitting Hitler, Surviving Stalin” by Arthur Spindler. Arthur Spindler was a Polish Jew that survived the fascism and repression of World War Two and the Holocaust. This biography tells of his story while dealing with the trials and tribulations that were commonplace during the Holocaust. This biography shall be used as an exemplar as to why it is not possible to write a perfect biography. Consequently it is the hypothesis of this report that it is not possible to write a perfect biography because reader expectations can never be met. The basic elements of any biography are:
· A personal knowledge of the subject
In this report, these elements shall be examined and it shall be ex
The purpose of a biography is to report on an individuals life in a manner entertaining to the reader. A good source of entertainment is anecdotes. These report on an isolated event in a comical manner. This is problematic because it may highlight an atypical event from a subjects life and make it appear to be normal behavior. And example of this is where the subject is persuaded to make a false report to his superiors in order to save a fellow worker. This can be seen in the line “I tore up the original report and had Jonas sign the false one, luckily the department accepted the report without question.” This line is rather misleading because it can lead the reader to believe that this fraudulent behavior is normal for the subject. Consequently any two readers may gain completely different perspectives from what they have read. Therefore it is simple not possible for reader expectations to be met because readers may be feed inconsistent information because of the impression they may have gained from an anecdotes.
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