Hurricane Transcript Analysis

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The transcript is about the rescue of Vietnam being sad and scary.A technique Chipman used is a simile and relates the strong wind of the helicopter to the strong winds of a hurricane. “It’s like being in a hurricane”.This simile portrays there were strong winds from the Chinook, and by using words like the hurricane, additionally makes the story frightening. Hurricanes have exceptionally strong winds and by contrasting a Chinooks power to a hurricane depicts how much power a single Chinook has. The second strategy is the attitude, mood, and tone of the transcript. To portray the feeling of sadness and a tragic event. Most of the transcript is very serious and sad and chaotic when they're talking about dropping babies of the helicopters and

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