Paper 1 Question 1

(a)

4-19-2022

Dear, The President of France

Over the course of these few weeks, I can only imagine the amount of stress you have endured and have been undergoing. I know you must be extremely grateful for the many people who have come together to rebuild your proud home, the amount of donations you have received is sensational. 

However, I can not begin to imagine the amount of guilt you must feel as people are attacking you in the fact that your country got more attention for going into flames in three minutes versus the Amazon in three weeks. As it may not be in your doing for how the world reacted to both of these tragedies, it is not too late to say something. 

Most people are upset since the very destructive and catastrophic fire that occurred in Notre Dame is getting more attention than the Amazon. The highlighted factor of that is the Amazon being the most exotic and healthy part of the world. As it is known, as the lungs of the earth, for being the most produced oxygen in a specific area. It is strictly clean air that is said to slow down global warming. 

Moreover, people blame France for the Amazon for not getting the same amount of attention even a fraction of the time. If you, Mr. The President would stand up and produce an opinion about it. I think that many people would listen to you, and some might even act on it. As it is not okay for what is happening right now in the contrasts of attention and the actions taken on the Amazon's fire compared to the Notre Dame.

(b)

Overall the format, structure, and language of the news report greatly differ from the letter. The genre of the text presented is a non-fiction, first-person narrative. Which is formed in a news report, whose target audience is likely to be those who are interested or invested in the comparison of the two fires and the attention each of them got or those who are particularly curious about the entirety of the debate. The news report added a headline to educate and tell the audience what they will be reading about, which is prominent in every news report. While the genre of the text that I provided is a non-fiction, first-person narrative. Which is formed in a letter, whose target audience is the president of France as I directly stated “Dear, The President of France” 

The structure of the news report is in chronological order as it states the orders of events that happened with details and how the people reacted. Continuing with the writer's structure, all of the paragraphs were short to allow the readers to absorb the information gradually as they read the factual information and the order of events in which they occurred. Some of the paragraphs strictly consisted of only one sentence, to fully address the audience and have them completely grasp what the author is trying to convey. The author keeps the paragraphs short so that the audience does lose interest or forget what they are reading, this structure of writing keeps the audience interested the whole time. 

While the letter consists of shorter paragraphs for the same reasoning, it does not have one lined paragraph as it is staying formal. The letter addresses the audience in the first line and continues its structure by shorter paragraphs so that the audience is fully engaged in what the letter is saying. Additionally, by doing this it ensures that there is no repetition and not one word is wasted. 

In the news report, the author used repetition in his language the majority of the time. The author repeated the phrases; “three whole weeks”, and “build a new earth.” These two phrases were constantly repeated throughout the new report to make clear the point it was trying to make. That being that the people are upset about the contrasts of attention and the actions taken on the Amazon's fire compared to the Notre Dame. Continuing with the language of the news report, the author decided to quote some of the people's opinions and they used informal contractions that are short forms of other words that people use when speaking casually. They are not exactly slang, but they are a little like slang. For example, "gonna" is a short form of "going to” which is used in the text. The author provided real people's quotes on the topic to add an emotional effect on the audience. Emotive words and phrases like “slip away”, “destroyed”, and “it's gone” were used in the people's quotes. Here the author highlights the emotional aspect in grabbing a hold of the audience emotionally, to hopefully make them feel what the people are feeling, just by reading what they have to say. 

Continuing with the language aspect, In the letter, I used a lexical field of sadness as I used the words; “upset”, “guilt”, and “stress” these words are used to have the audience feel empathetic towards themself and see the problems in which have arose from the writer. I used an emotional apple, as did the news article, but in its unique way. The new reports strictly only had an emotional appeal from the people's point of view, while I transferred from first person to second person, as I stated “If you”, to grab ahold of the solo targeted audience and create an emotional set off from the fact that I am writing at him rather than two him.