How Does Josephy Use Language to Make You, the Reader, Feel Part of the Debate?

English Language Paper 2

Writers’ Viewpoints and Perspectives

Question 3:

You now need to refer only to source B from line 7 to the end.

How does Josephy use language to make you, the reader, feel part of the debate?        (12 Marks)

Planning:

Paragraph 1:

• Emotive Language – “can’t survive”, pulls at heart strings of readers, sympathy for family that can’t live without “pilfering”, child caring for 10 people.
• Reader feels guilty and shameful – “unchristian” to not do anything about it.
• Emotive language makes reader want to join and help.

Paragraph 2:

• Juxtaposition – “opulence” and “destitution”, emphasising difference between life styles and classes.
• Division is “unchristian”, refers to lack of equality because of materialistic things e.g. money.
• Feel part of story, vast difference makes reader think about control each groups have.

Paragraph 3:

• Repetition – “no”, family has nothing. Gives reason for “pilfering”.
• Emphasises harsh condition for “Whisper” and family. Living without necessities. Bed, bath, plates, cutlery. Need the junk found by Whisper.
• Admiration of strength showed and sadness for it being shown. Makes reader feel part of argument/debate. Readers want to fight for rights.

Paragraph 4:

• Metaphor – “Whisper”, poor people feel/are insignificant and invisible. Emphasised by “Mrs. Whisper”, gone through horrible things “abuse….responsibility”.
• Reader feels admiration for still being “fiery” after being “bent…burdens”, guilty for letting it happen just because they’re poor.
• Makes her a representation of all destitute woman, part of debate by wanting to join the argument and stop all disappointment.

Question 3:

You now need to refer only to source B from line 7 to the end.

How does Josephy use language to make you, the reader, feel part of the debate?        (12 Marks)

Josephy makes the reader feel part of the debate by using many techniques. One of the many techniques used is emotive language. Saying the family “can’t survive” without the youngest stealing for them really pulls at the heart strings of the readers and makes them feel sympathy for the family, who can’t live without a child “pilfering” for them, and the child, who has the burden of taking care of ten people. It also makes the reader feel guilty and shameful for allowing something as “unchristian” as this to happen and not doing anything about this. The emotive language also makes the reader want to join the boy and help him, this making them a part of the story.

Another technique used by Josephy is juxtaposition using the words “opulence” and “destitution” brings two ideas together simultaneously. By doing this, the writer emphasises the difference between the two life styles and classes. He also mentions that this division is “unchristian”. It makes the reader think about the lack of equality between a group of people for something as materialistic as money. By doing this, the writer has succeeded in making the reader a part of the story. The vast difference think about the control the “opulence” has over their life and living conditions while the “destitution” is left to suffer for themselves.