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A Passage To Africa
A Passage To Africa
A PA SS A G E TO A FR IC A
Vocabulary
Revulsion: Disgust
Surreptitiously: secretly
Inured: hardened
Hamlet: a small settlement,
Introduction
Somaliais a small state inAfrica. It
Analysis
Title
A Passage to Africa
Passage
Paragraph 1
thousand, hungry, lean, scared and
betrayed faces.
but there is one I will never forget
Paragraph 2
Setting Is there
Hamlet
Back of Beyond = Hyperbole
Long sentence to give direction
The agencies had yet to reach there
Ghost Village = Similie
Paragraph 3
The role of these journalists in those
areas.
ghoulish hunt
trample huts
striking pictures
Craving for a drug
same old stuff the next
move people in the comfort of their
sitting rooms back home
Paragraph 4
Pity is gained from the readers
Plight of two girls
No rage, No whimpering =
Anaphora
simple , frictionless , motionless
famine away from the headlines
Paragraph 5
Plight of a wounded woman
abandoned
decaying flesh smell
gentle V-shape of a boomerang
She was rotting
Struggling breath
Paragraph 6
Repetition
Paragraph 7
Revulsion of the writer at the feeding
centre
Yes, revulsion,
beyond controlling their bodily
function.
Surreptitiously
Paragraph 8 and on
The woman covers herself up
The man does not let go of his
gardening hoe
The smile from a man
The sm ile
beyond pity and revulsion.
turned the tables on the tacit
agreement
posed a question that cut to the
heart
It reverses
roles
It affects
the writer
very
powerfully
It
stimula
tes
actions
It
raises
Questi
on
Last paragraph
I owe you one
Expresses gratitude, sympathy and
Tone
At the beginning
inured and distanced
What might have appalled us ... no longer impressed us much.
Admits it himself - thissoundscallous, the ghoulish manner
ofjournalists
Revulsion for the dying and sick
a mixture of pity and revulsion
The degeneration of thehuman body... is a disgusting thing.
Death described dispassionately
sameold stuff
No rage, no whimpering, just a passing away
that simple, frictionless, motionless deliverance from a state of
half-lifeto death itself.
It was, as I said at the time in my dispatch, a vision of famine
away from the headlines, a famine of quiet suffering and lonely
death.
At the end
more personal
Pities them: they aspire to a dignity
Purpose
Isolated
Suffering
Powerlessness
Harsh conditions in the
village- atmosphere of death,
decay and abandonment
Violence
Language used
The account is mainly in the first
Language # 2
use of powerful simile "like a ghost village" to compare