Passage To Africa Flashcards
Creates sense of reflection upon injustice in life, how insignicfcnt they were
“It was rotting; she was rotting”
“Half-life to death itself”
“It was rotting; she was rotting”
-parrallel sentence structure of their misery highlights the extent of despair
-use of the subject pronoun, followed by the personal pronoun in the next sentence creates an affinity between the wound and the woman
-suggests how she was given as little importance as a an inanimate wound, something impermanent that eventually disappears, suggesting how her fate was also similar
-dehumanizing and creates empathy for her
-“rotting” suggests how they have been suffering for so long, reminds the reader of the harshness of their lives
“Half-life to death itself”
-compound word suggests how they never truly lived a fulfilling life
-noun “half” emphasizes their disadvantage, how they were also less provelages and given less opputurnitues than other injustices and cruelty of the world
-oxymoron between life and death serves as a reminder for audiences about the brevity of life
Emphasizes the peoples suffering through emotive language
“-that simple,frictionless, motionless deliverance”
“No rage, no whimpering”
-dash creates an abrupt change in pace
-suggests how difficult it was for Alagiah to say, emotionally disturbing
-asyndeton implies a lack of emotion
-creates affinity with machinery, suggesting how they were dehumanized
-alternatively, how desensitized they became to suffering due to the extent of it
-word choice of “motionless” highlights the lack of attention they received even amidst their death, suggests how they were unnoticed. Miserable
-triple of adjectives emphasizes the desensitizing towards their death
“No rage, no whimpering”
-anaphora emphasizes how desensitized they became to death
-suggests the extent of pain they were in, unable to communicate of form words
-emphasizes how commonplace their death became, they gave up trying to speak
-simple ness of the clauses creates a sense of pity for them, as it it reductive and highlights how much insignificance they were given
Social commentary on the privileged:
“Us and them”
“Like the craving for a drug”
“Us and them”
-compound sentence highlights the reality of the division in the world
-creates a shift in the readers mindset. highlights how the issue is much larger than two individuals
-where collective pronoun highlights how individuals only attend to their own needs. Selfish and ignorant
“Like the craving for a drug”
-simile stresses the brutal reality of a journalists perspective
-semantic field of delusion highlights how obscured people are from the world due to their obsession with their own material interests-to gather good footage for their career.
-suggests how densietized they are, where the noun”drug” is dehumanizing and highlights the lack of respect given to them
Writer becomes emotionally moved at the end of the extract
“If you are still alive, I owe you one”
“-how could it be?”
“If you are still alive, I owe you one”
-sentence structure becomes disjointed near the end with frequent commas, to highlight how his unstable mind, how Alagiah is emotionally moved
-ends with a dedication to the man, through a dépendant clause, which highlights the symbolism of the smile, which had served as a reminder to him, emphasizing the emotional impact that it had upon him
-tone shifts from formal and sorrowful, to ending with colloquialism to highlight the shift in tone and to dedicate respect to the man.
“-how could it be?”
-dash mimics his pause in thought, to suggest how impactful this experience was on him
-rhetorical question highlights how he is beginning to question himself, demonstrating the emotional and reflective impact it had on him
-shortness of the phrase draws attention towards it, also encourages readers to reflect
