Deconstructing / Analysing the Text

1. Identify the Purpose and audience of this piece of travel writing. Select one key quotation that helped you to determine what the purpose of the piece is.

2. Using your notes from last lesson, highlight and identify (by annotating) 3-4 key features that are common to this type of travel writing.

3. Which features can you identify from your list that would not be appropriate or effective to include in this type of travel writing?

4. In paragraph 2 look at the sentence beginning ‘I couldn’t run….’ Which phrase is repeated? What effect does this have?

5. Find a simile in paragraph 3 and explain why it is effective.

6. In paragraph 4 she defuses the situation by growling and scattering the children like impala. Why is this effective?

7. Find a quotation that suggests the writer feels trapped by the noise of the children.

8. Select 3-4 words from different places in the article that show that Campbell felt vulnerable

9. EXTENSION: Using the examples selected above, write a PEEDL paragraph explaining how Campbell uses language to convey her feelings of vulnerability to the reader.