Schindler's List By Thomas Keneally

Schindler’s List, written by Thomas Keneally and originally published in 1982, is the true story of a German industrialist named Oskar Schindler, who spared the lives of over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust. During the war, Schindler, his shrewd and gregarious nature accompanying him, was able to prevent the ends of many Jews by convincing officials they were indispensable to the running of his enamelware factory. The name of the novel is derived from the lists he and others created to protect his Jewish workers from the death camp Auschwitz.

Creative nonfiction (CNF), an emerging new genre in which an author blends together creative literary techniques often employed by poets and fiction writers and a story based on real people or events has gained increasing popularity in recent years. Readers have become immersed in worlds unlike their own that read like fiction but are very startlingly real. According to Lee Gutkind, who founded the creative non-fiction program, there are five main techniques that CNF writers utilise in their work, often referred to as the 5 R’s. Since Keneally’s book is often called creative non-fiction, some of the 5 ‘R’s at work should be discussed.

The first ‘R’: “The ‘immersion’ or ‘real-life’ aspect of the writing …show more content…
By introducing us to specific victims of the Holocaust, such as Chaja and Danka Dresner and Josef and Rebecca Bau, readers develop a more personal connection to the story. Readers identify with such characters and by closely following their story, can better comprehend the horror and enormity of such a situation. By representing the Holocaust in such a way, readers better understand that Jews are more than just a race, but rather a group of individuals, each with their own ambitions and loved