Question 2 paper 1

 

QUESTION 2 PAPER 1

The genre of this text is a non-fiction first-person narrative. Which is formed in a personal written experience, whose target audience is likely to be those who are interested or invested in wild animals' safety or those who are particularly curious about the protocol of a possible threat case distributed by a wild animal. 

The writer writes in chronological order but distributes it in a unique way. While he is speaking about a past experience, his writing was performed as if you were going through the particular events with him like he was yet again living through it for the first time. Continuing with the writer's structure, the beginning two paragraphs were short to allow the readers to absorb the information gradually as the beginning of his first-handed experience had started. As the excerpt continues the paragraphs become longer as they go into detail about the undergoing situation, and what he had felt and observed after he had fired the first shot. The extension of the paragraphs allows an enhanced, drawn-out, and everlasting death of the elephant. The writer also begins to speak in longer and more detailed sentences as he says, “stricken, shrunken, immensely old…”, “.... paralyzed..”, which is a detailed description of the elephant after he had fired the first shot. This type of structure enhanced the language by fully educating the audience about the intricate key details of the elephant's backlash of the shot that had been fired. Moreover, the structural detail, the author's sentences became longer as he included more of his thought process throughout the integrity of his experience. For example, “At last, after what seemed a long time- it might have been five seconds, I dear say_ he sagged…”, within adding this ongoing sentence we are introduced to the play by play of the effect of the shot upon the elephant and what the author can personally recall from the moments he encountered it. Amongst these detailed elongated sentences, we were introduced to short structured sentences. Which included, ‘I got up,’ the shortness of this particular sentence distributes the quickness and straightforward acknowledgment brought upon George Orwell as he remembers responding to his action. 

The Language distributed throughout this excerpt is what fully engages the audience. We are introduced to a first-person written excerpt as the pronoun “I” is being distributed throughout the text. Inregaraders to speaking about the elephant, the pronoun “he” was used. Within the usage of these pronouns, it is obvious that the writer had experienced the altercation himself and was speaking about it in a detailed way as he uses metaphors, similes, and imagery to completely capture the audience's attention. 

George Orwell identified the fact that the readers had to fully understand and almost relive his experience to have any takeaways from his excerpt. An example of this is when he said, 'The crowd grew very still, and a deep, low, happy sigh, as of people who see the theater curtain go up, at last, breathed from innumerable throats.’ In this one line, the author creates a perfect image in the reader's head as he deliberately spoke in detail about the crowd's reaction as he got down to lay in position to take the shot. The words ‘still’, ‘happy’, 'sign’, and ‘deep’ fully express the emotional effect that had been introduced at that moment. The author enhanced this description as he added a simile to thoroughly bring awareness to the full effect. He compared it to the final curtain drawn at a theater, in which is an extremely dramatic and intense moment. While he describes the emotional appeal upon the crowd before the trigger was pulled, he also narrates the crowd's reaction with an oxymoron. A, ‘devilish roar of glee’, is used to describe the first realization and reaction of the audience after the trigger is pulled. The words ‘devilish’ and ‘glee’ are not words that flow positively together, by doing so we are presented with a questionable final response. 

Continuing with language, the author uses the lexical field of death as he used the words: ‘pale’, ‘ tortured gasps’, and ‘agony’ these words bring the audience to feel empathetic towards not only the elephant but George Orwell due to him having to witness the ongoing suffering of the animal. Additionally, the writer used hyperboles to extend the dramatic effect of the immortal elephant. George Orwell uses ‘...thousands of years old’ while the elephant did not quickly become older, the closer it became to death within the shots fired at him the older it appeared. Throughout the whole excerpt, the author is using imagery in different ways to enable the readers to easily picture and understand the consequence the fired shot had caused. Another unique way the other uses language is by using the same adjective twice but with an opposite entail of the word. He begins with, ‘...powerless to move…’ and ends with, ‘... yet powerless to die..’ each part of this sentence has two different takeaways but with the addition of repetition it is enhanced. At first George Orwell uses the word ‘powerless’ to convey a struggling dying animal, but then he uses the word ‘powerless’ yet again to exemplify the strong-willed animal's incapability to die. 

Overall the authors kept a highly detailed excerpt to produce a more attached audience. Which provided a great amount of key detail and an explicit form of writing.