A Passage to Africa Flashcards
‘Hungry, lean, scared, and betrayed’
Emotive adjectives creates pity from the reader
‘Ghoulish’
Negative connotations of journalists. Implies morbid interest in death and suffering
‘On the hunt’
Portrays journalists as predators
‘Like the craving for a drug’
Journalists are addicted and seek more extreme stories to gain satisfaction.
‘Smell of decaying flesh’, ‘festering wound’, ‘sick yellow eyes’, ‘it was rotting; she was rotting’, ‘putrid’
Sensory semantic field of decay give sense of revulsion
‘Abandoned’, ‘too weak’
Heartbreaking decision to leave vulnerable behind creates pathos
‘My reaction to everyone else’, ‘the face’
Views one face differently to everyone else
‘Sucked of its natural vitality’, ‘twin evils’
Personifies hunger and disease and monstrous and life sucking.
‘Ten years old’, ‘nine’
Reference to age is emotive as they are too young to die.
‘Struggling’
She is desperately clinging to life
Repetition of ‘no’, ‘frictionless, motionless’
Repetition and adjective shows passive acceptance of death and lack of resistance.
‘And then there was the face I would never forget’
Narrows focus to singular person. Pivoting moment of extract. Creates anticipation for the reader.
‘Yes revulsion’
Short sentence directly addressing readers. He is ashamed of his response and is ashamed of it.
‘Pity’
Feels pity over their undignified deaths
‘To be in a feeding centre’
Repetition encourages reader to imagine themselves in this situation.
