A Passage to Africa

Question 1

‘thousand’

Answer 1

Use of number shows the scale of the impact the war had on people

Question 2

Paragraph one

Answer 2

The focus narrows in the opening paragraph, from a thousand in the beginning to one man, signifies the impact the one man had on the writer

Question 3

‘like the craving for a drug’

Answer 3

Simile, journalists seek more extremes circumstances/stories to gain satisfaction, addicted to horrible stories

Question 4

‘There was Amina’

Answer 4

Use of name, emphasises the people as individuals and increases the readers empathy towards them, personalised the story

Question 5

‘frictionless, motionless’

Answer 5

Adjectives, shows the passive acceptance of death, there is no resistance towards her death

Question 6

‘and then there was this face I will never forget’

Answer 6

Narrows the focus to one person, pivotal sentence and turning point, anticipation/intrigue for reader- whose face and why will he never forget it