This year I studied four texts, two of which were autobiographies, and the other two were documentaries. The texts are “It’s not about the bike” written by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins, “Open an Autobiography” written by Andre Agassi, “Kevin’s Sentence” presented by Bob Carty from the Canadian broadcasting company and “Over the edge” presented by Linden Macintyre from Canada’s Fifth Estate programme. All four of these texts share the significant theme of overcoming adversity which can clearly be seen in each text. There are also similarities and differences in the way the texts are structured which helps the reader and audience grasp the significance of each story. All of the texts communicate significant messages that teenagers in the
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Andre provides the reader with an ending to his life story at the front of the text and a beginning to his story at the end of the text. The purpose of this is to capture the reader’s attention so that they will continue reading to discover how his life had come to such a successful ending. This structure is similar to Lance’s autobiography except Lance provides the reader with an insight to his experience of cancer at the start. This leaves the reader wanting to read about his road to recovery and how he had overcome cancer to win the Tour de France. Andre was introduced to tennis from a young age. He was born with a condition called Spondylolisthesis which means his bottom vertebra was parted from the other vertebrae. This could cause him pain during a game so he would have to alter the way he played. His father, Emmanuel was obsessed with tennis and was fixated on the fact that his son would be the best tennis player in the world. However even from the age of 7 he started to hate the sport because of his father’s strict training routines, such as hitting 2,500 balls every day. When Andre would complain his father would say, “You’re a tennis player! You’re going to be number one in the world! You’re going to make lots of money. That’s the plan and that’s the end of it”. This reveals to the reader, Emmanuel’s desperation for his son to become rich and to pursue a …show more content…
He was driving recklessly and had crashed his car. He was sentenced to 750 hours of community service as an alternative to imprisonment. The first several hundred hours would be spent speaking at schools about what happened to do deter others his age from drinking and driving. Staff Sergeant, Lloyd Graham said, “For this kind of crime of dangerous driving and two deaths I would certainly expect that there would be a jail term, that has been my experience for 30 years as a police officer”. This comment reveals to the audience just how unusual it is for someone who commits this crime to escape incarceration. When he delivers a speech in a high school gymnasium he speaks in a distraught tone of voice which conveys to the audience the high level of anxiety he is experiencing. When Kevin had first discovered the fact he killed his two friends he said, “All I could think about was how I was going to kill myself”. This conveys to the audience that Kevin was considering suicide. This strong emotion can also be seen in the documentary “over the
Andre provides the reader with an ending to his life story at the front of the text and a beginning to his story at the end of the text. The purpose of this is to capture the reader’s attention so that they will continue reading to discover how his life had come to such a successful ending. This structure is similar to Lance’s autobiography except Lance provides the reader with an insight to his experience of cancer at the start. This leaves the reader wanting to read about his road to recovery and how he had overcome cancer to win the Tour de France. Andre was introduced to tennis from a young age. He was born with a condition called Spondylolisthesis which means his bottom vertebra was parted from the other vertebrae. This could cause him pain during a game so he would have to alter the way he played. His father, Emmanuel was obsessed with tennis and was fixated on the fact that his son would be the best tennis player in the world. However even from the age of 7 he started to hate the sport because of his father’s strict training routines, such as hitting 2,500 balls every day. When Andre would complain his father would say, “You’re a tennis player! You’re going to be number one in the world! You’re going to make lots of money. That’s the plan and that’s the end of it”. This reveals to the reader, Emmanuel’s desperation for his son to become rich and to pursue a …show more content…
He was driving recklessly and had crashed his car. He was sentenced to 750 hours of community service as an alternative to imprisonment. The first several hundred hours would be spent speaking at schools about what happened to do deter others his age from drinking and driving. Staff Sergeant, Lloyd Graham said, “For this kind of crime of dangerous driving and two deaths I would certainly expect that there would be a jail term, that has been my experience for 30 years as a police officer”. This comment reveals to the audience just how unusual it is for someone who commits this crime to escape incarceration. When he delivers a speech in a high school gymnasium he speaks in a distraught tone of voice which conveys to the audience the high level of anxiety he is experiencing. When Kevin had first discovered the fact he killed his two friends he said, “All I could think about was how I was going to kill myself”. This conveys to the audience that Kevin was considering suicide. This strong emotion can also be seen in the documentary “over the