IO Preparation: Connection of Szymborska's Poetry to "A Private Experience"

Adichie's short story "A Private Experience" connects to Szymborska's "Hunger Camp at Jaslo" as they both demonstrate how history chooses to present events in comparison to the reality. Historical knowledge is mainly focused on statistical knowledge rather human experiences in order to offer a more 'subjective' perspective on historical events, also outlined through the "Hunger Camp at Jaslo": "History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed". History is seemed as heartless, disrespecting the intrinsic value of a human life by failing to recognize or chose to ignore its victims and portraying them as numbers. Therefore, it signifies that statistical information are considered more significant that personal experiences also seen in the extract of "A Private Experience" when stated "And she will fling the radio to the wall and a fierce red rage will run through her at how it has all been packaged and sanitised and made to fit into so few words, all those bodies.”