Text A is an extract from “Believe Me”, a novel written by Patricia Pearson. It describes a person who’s talking to his or her son about his grandmother, who’s close to dying. The text was written in 2005, with the sole purpose to entertain the audience. Text B, “Explaining Death in Child’s Terms”, is an article written by The Nemours Foundation. It describes how parents and guardians can explain the topic of death to children and its purpose it to inform the audience. While both texts deal with the topic of death, both discuss a completely different topic. Text A is an extract from a novel. We can clearly see this the way the text is structured. There’s a dialogue between two characters and thoughts of one character are thoroughly explained.
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In text A, “When people go to Heaven, do they have to wear a life jacket”, we, as the audience, are presented with the innocence of a child. He doesn’t know anything about death. This results in a very conflicting mood, since we have the innocent child presented on one side, versus the actual topic of death on the other. The text also presents very abstract descriptions on the topic of death. For instance, “who had told him two days previous – tremulous, clutching a rosary – that she expected to be in Heaven soon with her husband, Stan.”, doesn’t really describe death itself in any way. Similarly, text B also discusses the topic on death and how this could be presented to younger ones, yet it doesn’t seem to give a clear definition on what death is either. Moreover, the tone of the text differs completely as well. In text B, “ Be honest with kids and encourage questions”, gives a rather instructive tone, which is in contrast with the descriptive tone of text …show more content…
Dead people obviously can’t walk and they surely do not wear life jackets on their journey to Heaven. Not only does this influence the tone of the text, it adds to the character as well. In text B on the other end, there are clear forms of parallelism present. If you take the fifth paragraph as an example, you can see that the paragraph starts with the imperative, “avoid”. Not only does this contribute to the tone and mood of the text, this also gives the text a vibe of a manual’s, which completely contradicts the other
In text A, “When people go to Heaven, do they have to wear a life jacket”, we, as the audience, are presented with the innocence of a child. He doesn’t know anything about death. This results in a very conflicting mood, since we have the innocent child presented on one side, versus the actual topic of death on the other. The text also presents very abstract descriptions on the topic of death. For instance, “who had told him two days previous – tremulous, clutching a rosary – that she expected to be in Heaven soon with her husband, Stan.”, doesn’t really describe death itself in any way. Similarly, text B also discusses the topic on death and how this could be presented to younger ones, yet it doesn’t seem to give a clear definition on what death is either. Moreover, the tone of the text differs completely as well. In text B, “ Be honest with kids and encourage questions”, gives a rather instructive tone, which is in contrast with the descriptive tone of text …show more content…
Dead people obviously can’t walk and they surely do not wear life jackets on their journey to Heaven. Not only does this influence the tone of the text, it adds to the character as well. In text B on the other end, there are clear forms of parallelism present. If you take the fifth paragraph as an example, you can see that the paragraph starts with the imperative, “avoid”. Not only does this contribute to the tone and mood of the text, this also gives the text a vibe of a manual’s, which completely contradicts the other