A passage to Africa group D :
structure
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language techniques
rhetarical questions
"what was it about this smile"
the reader is drawn into a smile, that's what captures his attention and makes him question the environment that he is in. this can show how rare it is for happiness to be present in a place like this.
audience, purpose, genre
context
Civil War
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short sentence
habiba had died
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the short sentence shows how quickly these events happened. the plain tone in the short sentence reveals how natural and common it is for an innocent child to starve to death, this will make the audience feel uncomfortable because of the simplicity of death .
During the war, Italy had administrate control over Somalia.
clinical tone
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This would also help build tension in the writing, this is because it is very strange for the writer to write about a smile and be attracted to it because there have been other scenarios where there were grotesque scenes, but the smile was what attracted him.
People were left to live in poverty and hunger and in between the years 1991-1993, three hundred thousand Somalis had died.
paragraphing
similes
"like a ghost village"
“shot in the leg as the retreating army of the deposed dictator ... took revenge on whoever it found in its way.“
The fact that he describes the village as ghost village suggests that its soulless which suggests that its such a depressing place to be in
Somalis were being randomly shot by the army of a dictator.
The use of short sentence when the writer wrote about Habiba's death shows us that it is very common and that there have been many occasions on the news of kids dying etc. therefor the writer may not want to waste time on it writing about the exact same incident over and over again.
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how could it be
this is almost a sarcastic tone, which represents how unusual and odd it is for people to be happy
"And then there was the face i will never forget "
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One sentence paragraph represents the importance of it
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Languge choice
"in the ghoulish manner of journalists on the hunt"
the word "hunt" shows the predatory nature of his job as a reporter
"How should I feel standing there so strong and confident?"
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