7.1- Anthology Text- Rainier's reportage

7.1- Anthology Text- Rainier's reportage

1. Tone

   • Emotive
   • Reflective
   • Reassuring
   • Horrified
   • Knowledgeable

2. Mode

   • Reportage
   • Telephone conversation in print and online, hence spoken conventions

3. 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'

4. Audience

   • National Geographic readers
   • Fans of Rainier

5. Purpose

   • To inform on disaster
   • To raise awareness and encourage donation
   • To share personal experience
   • Form of catharsis?

6. Context

   • Written 15 days later- not current news
   • 230,000 died
   • Not a journalist