a passage to africa
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- Created on: 04-06-18 21:05
From a passage to Africa- George Alagiah.
Message- serve Africa in some way and we should feel guilty for craving shocking photos of the war
Language
· ‘passage to Africa’- ambiguous title, could mean anything like a journey to Africa or more likely a dedication to Africa (his purpose is to serve Africa in some way)
· ‘hungry, lean scared and betrayed faces’- list of adjectives creates an image of suffering, links to the end when trying to make the reader feel guilt.
· ‘but there is one I will never forget’- intrigues the reader and encourages them to read on but at same time shows he doesn’t care for any others. Shows his profession made him sensitive.
· ‘the back of beyond’- hyperbole shows isolation creates sympathy
· ‘take the Badale road…approx.’- listing lack of description again shows isolation
· ‘like a ghost village’- simile suggests its almost soulless and depressing and barely alive emphasises poverty
· ‘ghoulish’- adverb describing his job as if they feed of dead people which they do as they get their wage from taking shocking pictures of the dead
· ‘hunt’ and ‘tramped’- predatory language shows the profession as a predatory nature it is animal like and barbaric
· ‘no longer impressed by us much’- apathetic shows the profession is insensitive but because the public crave this type of news
· ‘old stuff’- dehumanizes the Somalien people as objects that become boring and old
· ‘comfort’- contrast of the horrible conditions in Africa but points out this barbaric act is at the cost that we want this
· ‘is like the craving for a drug’- simile shows that people always want more- adrenaline rush and people crave it always have and always will always someone to use that drug available
· ‘enervating’ choice of language shows the life is drained away from the Somalien people through hunger
· ‘Habiba had died’, ‘no rage, no whimpering’ - lack of emotive…
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