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How can America sleep at night when families are being torn apart? -…
How can America sleep at night when families are being torn apart?
Audience and Purpose
Directed towards Americans
Promotes protests
Calls Americans to action
Published while trump was president - speaking of his immigration policies and their impacts on innocent families.
An article on The Guardian - will reach millions of people across the world
Author is anti-trump due to his immigration policies.
Information relating to families in the United States was very well known 3 years ago, approximately when the article was released. Therefore, the audience is well informed.
Writing for The Guardian - the writer will be able to reach a large amount of people across the United States, therefore, making it a very influential article since it calls for action.
Content & Theme
The author speaks about the disgraceful nature of the american government in the manner that it is seperating children from their parents.
The point of the column is to alert the Americans of the situation in their country and call them to action to protest
The theme revolves around the affect of immigration on families as children are torn away from parents.
Tone & Mood
The column is written from the perspective of a parent. She can empathise with what the other parents have to go through, the fear they have to experience and she understands how scary it must be for the children.
The mood surrounding the text isn't happy. It speaks of a very sensitive topic and its large impacts on innocent human beings. It instils empathy in the audience.
Structure
To begin, the author makes the situation more relatable for the audience to extract sympathy and therefore, making the argument more convincing
Stating at the end that no Americans should be able to sleep until this problem is resolved is the equivalent of ending the column with a call to action.
The headline immediately attracts the audience's attention since it speaks about Americans as a whole and it addresses the problem that is spoken across the column too.
Stylistic Devices
Rhetorical Question - the title is a rhetoric question