A Pssage To Africa Flashcards
(4 cards)
In the ghoulish manner
Fact he describes manner of journalism - ghoulish suggests that they feed of the dead, many of the striking pics will be of dead people.
Hunt and tramped - highlights the predatory nature of his job and paints the Somali as vulnerable and encourages the readers sympathy
Beginning - I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces as I cross crossed Somalia between the end of 2991and December 1992 but there is one I will never forget.
The use of metonymy through the noun faces to describe the people represents Aligarh’s detached perspective from the horrors that he witnesses. By assigning a vague title to the people, the writer can disconnect himself from the reality of the pain and suffering that he captures as part of his work.
The use of asyndetic tripartite list to describe the Somalians as hungry lean scared hyperbolises the suffering of the people. Use of the three pre-modifying qualitives adjectives creates visual imagery to provide the reader with a sense of the horrifying scene that alagiah witnesses.
Use of dynamic verb criss crossed reinforces the desensitized perspective of alagiah as it has connotations of an enjoyable, game like scenario. However, the use of the verb phrase never forget reveals a lasting impression that these horrors have had upon the writer. It creates suspense and tension for the reader as we are keen to continue to uncover the identity of this one individual
Middle - it was the smell that drew me to her doorway: the smell of decaying flesh. Where her shinbone should have been there was a festering wound size of my hand
Reared engaged through use of olfactory imagery in the independent clause ‘the smell of decaying flesh’. Enhance reader - deplorable conditions that the people within the town live in. Colon placed directly before clause creates deliberate pause, allowing reader to focus on information that follows and increasing sense of outrage and disgust they feel.
Plosive alliteration - drew, doorway, decaying hyperbolize the severity of the situation. The repeated d phoneme is phonologicalkt harsh emulating the damning perspective of the writer
Noun phrase - wound six’s of my hand create graphic visual imagery to display alagiah sense of revulsion,at the spectacle that he witnessed. The vivid description of the scene immerses reader affording them a full sensory experience of the horrors that the writer witnesses .
End - so my nameless friend if you are alive I owe u one
End if extract write included a change in time through juxtaposition. This occurs through the changing perspective of the writer where he moves from a position of pity for the thousand.. faces to a position of respect for. A friend. By the end alagiah recognizing the importance of his journey through Africa, and the people he meets the reader is engaged and interested through the honest raw nature of the final line, which is memorable and heart wrenching.
Oxymoronic, noun phrase, nameless friend to demonstrate the contradictory feelings of the writer on the one hand writer feels a closeness to the man that he meets referring to him through the noun friend. However, he also feels a sense of guilt as demonstrated through the qualitative adjective nameless, the reader is intrigued through the opposing feeling of the writer, and the honest regret that he feels at the end.
The complex nature of the sentence and use of commas creates the sense that the reader is experiencing the writers honest stream of consciousness. This is reinforced through the personal pronouns, I my and you which reveals the bond between the writer and the man, the reader may perhaps feel sympathy for both the man and the writer at this point as both appear to have suffered .
