In his essay, "Inside the Bunker", John Sack successfully portrays his view of the Holocaust deniers and his opinions on the consequences and causes of important issues such as hate, persecution, and denial. Because Sack is able to minimize the distance between himself and the implied reader, he is able to effectively convey his message. The reader first learns that Sack is Jewish, which instantly creates sympathy for him, since the deniers refuse to believe that the Germans murdered six million people of his culture. In the opening paragraph, Sack's honesty is also expressed as he describes his frustrations with the conference, referring to it as "the central asylum for the delusion that the Germans didn't kill any Jews" (280). Because the implied reader is not a revisionist, the reader is likely to have a very similar initial reaction to "the people who say the Holocaust didn't happen" (280). Throughout the essay, the author is able to remain unbiased, while never compromising his original beliefs of the horrible realities of the Holocaust. …
