A passage to Africa Flashcards
I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces
Listing, adjectives=image of suffering.
But there is one I will never forget
Intrigues the reader
In the back of beyond
hyperbole, isolation
Like a ghost village
Emphasizes isolation, simile
In the ghoulish manner of journalists on the hunt for the most striking pictures
Feed of the dead for the most striking picture, ‘hunt’ predatory.
old stuff
de-humanizes the subjects of those images. dismissive tone.
Habiba had died
Clinical tone, simple sentence, emphasises de-sensitive to this stuff
Is like the craving for a drug
simile, de-sensitive they have become
Half-life
Suggests already dead
It was rotting; she was rotting
Parallel sentence structure, suggest victims are seen as objects at first, but the writer reveals.
And then there was the face i will never forget
one sentence paragraph=- importance, repetition of ‘that face’ intrigues the reader.
Cleaned vomit from a child’s mouth
Ashamed
I saw that face
Very specific, importance
-how could it be -
disjointed sentence structure= altered mindset.
And then it clicked.
Simple sentence= clarity
