How does George Alagiah create a sense of pity in "A Passage To Africa?

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  • Created on: 18-03-18 09:24

How does George Alagiah create a sense of pity in "A Passage To Africa?

In this extract, Alagiah creates a sense of pity through emotive language in lists and rules of three to create a sense of the profusion of suffering: ‘hungry’, ‘scared’, ‘betrayed’. The juxtaposition of the shocking and the boring, ‘same old stuff’, of ‘dirt floor’ ‘hut’ and ‘sitting rooms’ increases the pity by putting into perspective the gulf between our lives and those affected by the famine. It also shows, shockingly the dangers that if suffering becomes commonplace, then it will become normal. The idea that people don't care about the suffering increases our pity. The colloquial language ‘same old’, and ‘craving for a drug’ suggest the problem of apathy - the enemy of pity. 

He increases pity by showing how much suffering he’s seen. He lists incidents, from a mother with her

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