Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Passage to Africa
- Smilie's
- "The search for shocking is like
the craving for a drug"
- It creates an image of an addition, desperation.
- The use of the drug
implies that's its not good.
- Like a ghost Town
- Creates an image that everyone is dying and
its deserted.
- Short / one word sentences
- Hunt
- Creates the impression that he is a
predator, exploiting the vulnerable
- It was rotting; she was rotting
- it shows how remembers that she is a human. We
feel as if Alagiah forgets about the fact that these
people are human. Not things
- Habibah Died.
- The short and powerful
- Creates an effect because it stands out due to it being short
- It shocks the reader
- The shortness adds
effect because it shows
how emotionless he
was, and everyone
around.
- Emotive Language
- So my nameless friend, if you are still alive, i owe
you one.
- Leaves the potential that he could be dead.
- Shows he isnt writing about money.
- The smile reminds him that those people are
human and realises that these people have
emotions.
- Which leads him to question his job, that is it right to publicise someone's life?
- He feels embrassed about his job.
- Realises that his job is more than what people think it is.
- Rhetorical Questions
- How should i feel to be standing there so strong and confident?
- Makes the reader feel guilty
- challenges his own profession
- How could it be? - but it was a smile
- He is confused about the smile
because he is so used to seeing
people embrassed.
- Because the aurthor
questions it, thus making
us question the morality of
it.
- The Power of three / Listing
- a famine of quite suffering and lonely death
- Emphasises the pain
- Draws attention to how alone people are
- And their suffering
- No Rage, no whimpering, just a passing away
- Emphasises that it was just death that happened
- Gives the impression that suffering and death was common
- Draws attention to how lonely and the suffering
- Repetition of Negatives
- It was not a smile of joy - It was not a smile of greeting
- Emphasises the strange nature of the smile which is "not" happy.
- Alliteration
- Power and Purpose
- Emphasises that he has
changed his mind on his job
- Before he was doing it for his
job and profession but realises
the wrong in doing it.
- Collect and Compile
- Draws attention how small
the place was.