Ayers rock analysis
Analysis of ”Ayers Rock” (non-fictional text)
1. Title, author, year, basic content (summary).
The text about “Ayers Rock” is written by Robyn Davidson in the year of 1989. Robyn Davidson is an Australian travel writer, born in 1950.
The text starts out by portraying Ayers Rock from a geological perspective. It also tells about the evolution of the aborigines rights to their land. Then we hear about Robyn Davidson's first meeting with the Ayers Rock, and it ends with a newer story about Robyn who's taking a friend to the rock several years later. The city nearby has changed from a village to a town, and the rock has become a tourist attraction.
2. Composition (geological, aborigines, the personal story, conclusion), how: language (find five powerful passage, read a few aloud, point of view) – how are the aborigines described?, targeted audience, rhetorical effects (tone), beginning and end.
Composition: The composition in the text is connected to the point view that is changing through the text.
Language: The language is quite easy with few harder words.
Powerful passage:
Target audience: 16-death because of the language of the story. The content of the story is though more directed at 40-death.
The tourist: “Fuck off!” = disrespectful = antagonist.
Aborigines:
The first 2 lines: “dead heart” of Australia: The first two sentences gives us the theme of the whole story, which we know after having read the entire story. The “dead heart” of Australia is a symbol of the dying culture and nature of Australia, which is the most important values for Australia, which is also seen in the song “I am Australia”.
3. Why?, discourse.
Tourism destroys the culture and the nationalism of Australia portrayed through their nature.
But it also destroys culture in general!!! :-)
1. Title, author, year, basic content (summary).
The text about “Ayers Rock” is written by Robyn Davidson in the year of 1989. Robyn Davidson is an Australian travel writer, born in 1950.
The text starts out by portraying Ayers Rock from a geological perspective. It also tells about the evolution of the aborigines rights to their land. Then we hear about Robyn Davidson's first meeting with the Ayers Rock, and it ends with a newer story about Robyn who's taking a friend to the rock several years later. The city nearby has changed from a village to a town, and the rock has become a tourist attraction.
2. Composition (geological, aborigines, the personal story, conclusion), how: language (find five powerful passage, read a few aloud, point of view) – how are the aborigines described?, targeted audience, rhetorical effects (tone), beginning and end.
Composition: The composition in the text is connected to the point view that is changing through the text.
Language: The language is quite easy with few harder words.
Powerful passage:
Target audience: 16-death because of the language of the story. The content of the story is though more directed at 40-death.
The tourist: “Fuck off!” = disrespectful = antagonist.
Aborigines:
The first 2 lines: “dead heart” of Australia: The first two sentences gives us the theme of the whole story, which we know after having read the entire story. The “dead heart” of Australia is a symbol of the dying culture and nature of Australia, which is the most important values for Australia, which is also seen in the song “I am Australia”.
3. Why?, discourse.
Tourism destroys the culture and the nationalism of Australia portrayed through their nature.
But it also destroys culture in general!!! :-)