Question

How do the reactions of the Titanic passengers affect your knowledge and your feelings about the disaster? How is the experience of reading this excerpt different than reading a straight narration? In an essay of at least 300 words, explain what this shows about the importance of primary source accounts in learning history. Use quotations from the text to support your ideas.

Answer 1

It gives me a new perspective as a reader on how the passengers felt during the titanic and also gives a whole new meaning on how a ship that had everyone’s memories and story just disappeared by the ship slowly, slowly sinking and the Arthur gives us an idea on what the passengers had to go through in first person.