To Look a Nazi in the Eye is a book by Kathy Kacer and Jordana Lebowitz that tells

about a nineteen-year-old girl who went to the trial of a Nazi war criminal, “the Bookkeeper of
Auschwitz”. The Other Side of Truth is a book by Beverley Naidoo about a Nigerian girl who had
to flee from her country to England after a failed assassination of her father, an anti-government
journalist that resulted in her mother’s death. The book shows the struggles that Sade and her
brother face alone in London. Both stories use points of view to influence our thinking about
human rights by showing us characters that people can relate to, showing that human rights are
different for everyone, and showing how blurry and insecure human rights are.

Firstly, the Other Side of Truth and To Look a Nazi in the Eye influence the reader’s point
of view by showing characters that people can relate to. In The Other Side of Truth, that
character is Sade, an eleven-year-old girl from Nigeria. In To Look a Nazi in the eye it is Jordana
Lebowitz, a university student who went to the trial of Oscar Groening. People can relate to
Sade because she is a character that is similar to the target audience of the book (teenagers
and pre-teenagers). The reader can also relate to Jordana because she is also similar to the
target audience of the book: teenagers and young adults. To Conclude, both books have
characters that the reader can relate to that influence the person's point of view.

Secondly, both stories are also similar by showing the reader that human rights are
different for everybody. For the Other Side of Truth, this is shown by the comparison of people
from England Human rights and the human rights of Nigerian people. For instance, In Nigeria,
people can’t tell their opinion if it opposes the government, and they have no free press. In
England, though, people have freedom of speech. In To Look a Nazi in the Eye, the difference
of human rights for different people by showing the human rights if jews and native germans
during the holocaust. Jews are being sent to working camps and being brutally killed, but
german Aryans are the ones supporting this regime. So, both the other side of truth and to look
a nazi in the eye influence the reader’s view on human rights by showing that they are different
for everyone.

Last but not the least, both books use points of view to influence the reader’s thinking
about human rights by showing that human rights are blurry and insecure. For the Other Side of
Truth, it is done with Sade’s point of view: the world leaders say that there are human rights, but
in some countries like Nigeria, it is not true, they are insecure and blurry; in some countries,
there are no human rights at all. In To Look a Nazi in the Eye it is done through the eyes of
young Oscar Groening. At his testimony, he said that before Hitler and the Third Reich came to
power, there were human rights for jews. But they were blurry: using propaganda, germans
were told that jews are the ones responsible for their loss in WWI. And then, anti-jew laws were
made, but it was still said that Germany was a country with human rights. In summary, the other
side of truth and to look a nazi in the eye show that human rights are insecure and blurry, thus
influencing the reader’s view of inhuman rights.

In conclusion, these stories influence our thinking about human rights by using different
points of view by showing how blurry and insecure human rights are, showing us characters that
people can relate to, and showing that human rights are different for everyone.
 Works Cited

Kacer, Kathy, and Jordana Lebowitz. To Look a Nazi in the Eye: A Teen's Account of a
War Criminal Trial. Follettbound, 2017.

Naidoo, Beverley. Other Side of Truth. Penguin Books Ltd, 2017.