The focus in representation 1 is the Blitz as an overview, the spirits of the Londoners and how it affected the nation. The government thought that the witnessing of large scale bombing and deaths of children and civilian would be bade for spirit, which is why in the year 1940, official evacuation and re-evacuation occurred The author demonstrates a great deal of “stoicism” and “resilience”, as well as the factual content. The author creates the image of a terrible impact towards the country. For example, there were a staggering 430 deaths, and 600,000 women and children being evacuated. Operation Pied Piper, which began in 1939, officially relocated more than ‘3,500,000’ people. Though the evacuation was a success, the death rate was a risk
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This act of courage gave them a symbolic status as well giving hope; the hence spirit was increasingly high. The source makes mention that the Blitz lasted for “57 nights and then continued intermittently until “May 1941”. In addition, it also mentions the German warfare, Luftwaffe, “dropped hundreds of bombs on the East End, killing 430 people”. The author demonstrates this brutal massacre as well showing that regardless of the current situation the people still had a high spirit. The authors use all these factual content to suggest an imagery of a high spirit nation. But nevertheless, it does suggest a low spirit. This is partly due to the many deaths in the Blitz. The author writes “up to a third of the east end and the city of London had been flattened”. However, the main focus is in London, as the author does not mention any other city, for example, Birmingham, Manchester etc. In another city, 684 people died in December 1940. These facts were not mentioned as it would divert off from the main focus; hence, it is why this representation written as a handbook is only for …show more content…
For instance, the German air force, the Luftwaffe is made mention when they “dropped hundreds of bomb on the 7th of September 1940”, and further on January 1944 “Germany had launched pilotless v01 bombers over the city”. Another example is that we are given a complete time frame, which was “57 nights”. Provided with information it is evident that is a complete picture. But then again this idea can be refuted as within the history of the event, cities other than London had key roles to play. For example from an outside source, it is stated that 60% of children were evacuated in Manchester and Liverpool. In this source, not one single city is made mention apart from London. This is, however, understandable as it was only written as a guidebook for tourist visiting London. The author purposely suggests a high spirit of London as it says “Londoners responded with legendary resilience and stoicism”. This aspect is not complete as we are not given any interview to speculate if there was indeed a high spirit atmosphere. Also in the source, it says there was a killing of “430 people”, however this information is not contextualised, which can only be dismissed as incomplete information. In the source it is only stated that “600,000 women and children had been evacuated to the countryside” however, what about the other proportion of evacuees. Overall, we know within the first three days of evacuation, 1,
This act of courage gave them a symbolic status as well giving hope; the hence spirit was increasingly high. The source makes mention that the Blitz lasted for “57 nights and then continued intermittently until “May 1941”. In addition, it also mentions the German warfare, Luftwaffe, “dropped hundreds of bombs on the East End, killing 430 people”. The author demonstrates this brutal massacre as well showing that regardless of the current situation the people still had a high spirit. The authors use all these factual content to suggest an imagery of a high spirit nation. But nevertheless, it does suggest a low spirit. This is partly due to the many deaths in the Blitz. The author writes “up to a third of the east end and the city of London had been flattened”. However, the main focus is in London, as the author does not mention any other city, for example, Birmingham, Manchester etc. In another city, 684 people died in December 1940. These facts were not mentioned as it would divert off from the main focus; hence, it is why this representation written as a handbook is only for …show more content…
For instance, the German air force, the Luftwaffe is made mention when they “dropped hundreds of bomb on the 7th of September 1940”, and further on January 1944 “Germany had launched pilotless v01 bombers over the city”. Another example is that we are given a complete time frame, which was “57 nights”. Provided with information it is evident that is a complete picture. But then again this idea can be refuted as within the history of the event, cities other than London had key roles to play. For example from an outside source, it is stated that 60% of children were evacuated in Manchester and Liverpool. In this source, not one single city is made mention apart from London. This is, however, understandable as it was only written as a guidebook for tourist visiting London. The author purposely suggests a high spirit of London as it says “Londoners responded with legendary resilience and stoicism”. This aspect is not complete as we are not given any interview to speculate if there was indeed a high spirit atmosphere. Also in the source, it says there was a killing of “430 people”, however this information is not contextualised, which can only be dismissed as incomplete information. In the source it is only stated that “600,000 women and children had been evacuated to the countryside” however, what about the other proportion of evacuees. Overall, we know within the first three days of evacuation, 1,