Zusammenfassung der Ressource
7.1- Anthology Text- Rainier's reportage
- Tone
- Emotive
- Reflective
- Reassuring
- Horrified
- Knowledgeable
- Mode
- Reportage
- Telephone conversation in
print and online, hence
spoken conventions
- Annotations
- Lots of statistics
- Factual
- Conventional
- Repetition
- '77,000 missing... 77,000 to confirmed dead'
- Alliteration
- 'broken bones'
- Analogies
- Conventional
- Hiroshima
- Hieronymus Bosch
- Lexical set of death
- Varying register
- 'lacerations' vs. 'hugs'
- Audience
- National Geographic readers
- Fans of Rainier
- Purpose
- To inform on disaster
- To raise awareness and encourage donation
- To share personal experience
- Form of catharsis?
- Context
- Written 15 days later- not current news
- 230,000 died
- Not a journalist