Passage to Africa
- Created by: crazybanana24
- Created on: 01-06-18 15:31
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- A Passage to Africa
- Topic
- The state of war torn Somalia in the 1990s
- The people Alagiah met and how they made him feel
- Form
- Travelogue, journal, diary, memoir
- Purpose
- Directed towards the nameless man
- To Inform to the Western world
- To help the understand how war affects humanity
- Audience
- Wide-ranging: the Western World
- Quite mature topic to deal with
- 'but there is one face I'll never forget'
- strong narrative hook
- 'like a ghost village'
- simile, aura of death
- 'terminal hunger'
- very much a shocking phrase, as curable in the West and easily done so
- 'simple, frictionless, motionless'
- triplet: emphasises everyday occurrence that this is in Africa
- 'twin evils of hunger and disease'
- personifies them so humans look weaker
- 'keeps his *** next to the mat' mirrors how he is clinging to the sense of life'
- 'I owe you one' a role reversal of charity
- Pathos evoked
- by rhetorical question: 'how should I feel standing there so strong and confident?'
- 'back of beyond' alliteration shows isolation
- repetition of 'smile' shows how touched he was
- 'power and purpose' plosive sounds show determination
- Topic
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