A Passage to Africa Summary
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- Created on: 03-01-14 09:58
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- A Passage to Africa
- Audience
- Those interested in the subject
- Those in a more favourable condition
- Readers of newspapers
- Adults
- Register (Tone)
- Begining
- "Callous"
- Inured
- Death described dispassionatly
- "Revulsion" for the dying and sick
- “What might have appalled us ... no longer impressed us much.”
- Admits it himself - “this sounds callous”, “the ghoulish manner of journalists”
- “a mixture of pity and revulsion”
- “The degeneration of the human body ... is a disgusting thing.”
- "same old stuff"
- End
- Personal response
- Curious
- Shocked (at the smile)
- Hopeful
- Pities them: “they aspire to a dignity that is almost impossible to achieve”
- “I had to find out.”
- Regrets the fact that he never “found out what the man’s name was”
- Futility
- The man will never read the article, even though it is written almost in dedication to him
- Begining
- Purpose
- To shock the audience
- To show how journalists are obligated to show the harshest news
- To emphasise the distance between the journalist and the people in the feeding centres
- A dedication to the man with the smile
- Form
- Autobiographical
- Audience
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