Passage To Africa

Question 1

Search for the shocking is like the craving for a drug

Answer 1

Simile= sickening reality to journalism, reveals “craving” for more work. “Craving” connotes desire and wanting for more proving for him to disconnect from reality in order to work

Question 2

On the hunt for the most striking pictures

Answer 2

Hunting for disturbing and gruesome stories. “Hunt”= predatory language. Dehumanising experience

Question 3

Saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces

Answer 3

Syndetic listing reveals extent of poverty through personal and individual tragedy. Opened with listing to show suffering

Question 4

Like a ghost village

Answer 4

Simile = isolation. Life drained from it. eeriness and soulless. “Ghost”= haunting, unsettling atmosphere

Question 5

Enervating stages of terminal hunger

Answer 5

“ enervating” and “terminal” = drained from energy and vitality. Association with death to portray worsening poverty in Somalia

Question 6

Habiba…died

Answer 6

Short sentence to represent disconnection from death and emphasises dismissiveness of situation. Her identity is elucidated. Sympathy’s

Question 7

There was a face (he) will never forget

Answer 7

Single sentence paragraph shows reader importance of interaction. Build up trepidation and creates building of suspense

Question 8

It was it a smile of joy- how could it be?

Answer 8

Parenthetic phrase shows disconnection and momentary questioning as he feels confused. Rhetorical question poses question to reader

Question 9

If you are still alive. I owe you one

Answer 9

Colloquial language provoked emotion and poignant and power. Human suffering= harder when he refers to man as a “friend”. Demonstrates importance of meeting