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- "I saw a thousand HUNGRY,LEAN,SCARED,BETRAYED faces .....BUT there is ONE i will NEVER FORGET"
- The list of adj= evokes images of suffering and the final adj "BETRAYED" links to the end of the article were we're encouraged to feel guilty due to out connections w/ developed world.
- EMPHASISES ON CONJUNCTION "BUT" SUGGEST FOLLOWING THE TRIAD SUGGESTS That he doesn't care about the other faces he saw linking to the apathy journalist develop after constant exposure to suffering.
- THE EMPHASISES ON PRONOUN"ONE" SUGGESTS He is focused on the individual yet he’s covering an event affecting millions, which links to the medias hyper fixation on individual suffering rather that establishing the whole story//political/social climate that led to millions suffering.
- Alagiah's desensitisation allows him to ignore the stories of millions and focus on only one.
- Also shows how something has to be eccentric and different (like a smile) to catch Alagiah's attention/sympathy.
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- "LIKE A GHOST VILLAGE"
- SUGGESTS ITS A DEPRESSING PLACE TO BE/SOULLESS (EVOKES ETHOS AS IT ACCENTUATES HOW ABANDONED THESE PPL ARE
- The noun “ghost” emphasise how the western world views villages like these, an undeveloped nation is not acknowledged by the west and at times presented as something distant/fictitious
- .And also how the west allow nations that they consider underdeveloped to silently suffer until they become ghosts/dead.
- METAPHOR ------------------------------------------------------
- "IN THE GHOULISH MANNER OF JOURNALISTS
- Relationship between reporter/subject painted as quite parasitic.
- The journalists feed from their subjects suffering in almost
a repulsive/reprehensible manner like ghouls feed of the dead in a repulsive/parasitic
manner for their own gain.
- Since ghouls are undead creatures perhaps the actions of the
journalists lead them to become dehumanised and lose their humanity and essentially
become dead inside like ghouls.
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- "LIKE THE CRAVING FOR A DRUG ;YOU REQUIRE HEAVIER AND MORE FREQUENT DOSES"
- EMPHASISES THE EXTENT OF DESENSITISATION OF JOURNALISTS.
- It highlights/almost exposes the greed of the media who view ppl suffering as products to be distributed to western audiences at home.
- Theirs always harmful affects of drugs the negative affect of thsi metaphorical "drug" could be desensitisation.
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- DICTION
- "THIS SOUNDS CALLOUS BUT ITS JUST A WAY OF LIFE"
- Perhaps an ethical failure of the industry which paints their
deaths as natural suffering and “just a passing away” instead of problems
simulated by political/social factors.
- The choice to not articulated these nuanced factors and mainly remain apolitical leads to a hyper fixation on their suffering creating a narrative of helpless civilians waiting for external salvation.#
- Leads to the readers accepting their deaths as natural and not research or conceive possible solutions-help themtE
- not natural caused by existing systems enforced/perpetuated and help sustain the West (capitalism)
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- PARALLEL SENTENCE STRUCTURE
- "It was rotting;she was rotting"
- The switch to the personal pronoun "she" is more personal/give the woman identity /emphases her humanity and contrast it with the lack humanity extended to her-pathos
- SHORT/IMPACT SENTENCES"HABIBA HAD DIED"
- "AND THEN IT CLICKED"
- HIGHLIGHTS THE CLARITY OF HIS EPIPHANY
- " it moved me in a way"-repetition of the personal pronoun "me" emphasises how the author has become passive in this exchange.
- long sentences at the begging highlight the isolation of these ppl and how they've been forgotten by the rest of the world
- USE OF DASHES TO HIGHLIGHT RHETORICAL QUESTION "-how COULD IT BE"- TO EMPHASISES THE WRITERS LACK OF CONFIDENCE.
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