Ship example essay topic
The departure of the ship, the amount of time spent on the ship, the problems with landing in Cuba, the amount of money each person needed to obtain visas', the man's suicide on the ship, and many other facts were accurate when relating this story from fact to 'fiction'. Overall, when taking into account what we read and what we saw, there were only minor differences in concluding which is fact and which is fiction. For example, in the articles, an elderly woman was granted permission to get off the ship when it was docked in Havana. In the movie two young children were granted permission to get off the ship.
Throughout this entire situation in both life and in the movie there were questions that needed to be answered. One of which was why were 1,000 Jews allowed to leave Germany? When they were on the ship, and weren't allowed to land in Havana, why didn't the captain just basically kick them off? This question was answered when the movie pointed out that the captain's family was threatened if he did 'dock' the passengers.
Overall, the movie depicted the actual events that occurred on the Saint Louis accurately. There were only minor differences in the articles and the movie, and, I believe, the differences were made to add to personal feelings or attachments the viewer would have about the characters.