Communication Studies Internal Assessment (Reflective Piece and Language Analysis)
Reflective Piece - Why?
Cast away in the distances, abandoned some may call it searching for a better life, others may utter.
Trying to find a better way,
Parents may justify.
Truly, did you think it would make it any better?
Financially... the world you seek to provide an answer?
Where’s your justification?
Does money make the world go round or does a household make it?
You see the fine line drawn,
A child thrown into the dark to search for the dim light.
On the brink, some may survive
Fallen, some never saw the light again,
But for both their days were always dark.
What does a man left in the wild to be raised by animals become?
Nothing-- physically, an animal mentally.
Who can love a child more than a parent can?
Anyone . . . but what’s its value?
Just naught for the heart will forever be digging for
The original source of love.
For the mother, from the father,
And when abandoned, the heart will still dig,
Digging on a hardened floor,
Searching for the light, searching for love,
Searching for care and attention,
In the wrong place, in the cold ground,
Where the humanity sheds, and a lustful soul craves destruction.
Depression creates a shell,
Suicidal tendencies take the roles of demons
And seduces like a brightly coloured snake.
Ropes become an attraction,
Death becomes a consistent thought
Violence becomes a an expression of goodwill,
Goodwill that is not even there,
How can the unwanted love?
How can the empty live unless he has a strong heart
And once again, who’s there to love
And what do you love with but the heart?
Language Analysis
The reflective piece, ‘Why?’ is a poem written from a teenagers point of view and it serves to inform the reader of how a teen may feel when their parents have migrated leaving them in the care of somebody else who is incapable of caring for them. Language registers and dialectal variation can be seen throughout the passage and they will be analysed. Language
Cast away in the distances, abandoned some may call it searching for a better life, others may utter.
Trying to find a better way,
Parents may justify.
Truly, did you think it would make it any better?
Financially... the world you seek to provide an answer?
Where’s your justification?
Does money make the world go round or does a household make it?
You see the fine line drawn,
A child thrown into the dark to search for the dim light.
On the brink, some may survive
Fallen, some never saw the light again,
But for both their days were always dark.
What does a man left in the wild to be raised by animals become?
Nothing-- physically, an animal mentally.
Who can love a child more than a parent can?
Anyone . . . but what’s its value?
Just naught for the heart will forever be digging for
The original source of love.
For the mother, from the father,
And when abandoned, the heart will still dig,
Digging on a hardened floor,
Searching for the light, searching for love,
Searching for care and attention,
In the wrong place, in the cold ground,
Where the humanity sheds, and a lustful soul craves destruction.
Depression creates a shell,
Suicidal tendencies take the roles of demons
And seduces like a brightly coloured snake.
Ropes become an attraction,
Death becomes a consistent thought
Violence becomes a an expression of goodwill,
Goodwill that is not even there,
How can the unwanted love?
How can the empty live unless he has a strong heart
And once again, who’s there to love
And what do you love with but the heart?
Language Analysis
The reflective piece, ‘Why?’ is a poem written from a teenagers point of view and it serves to inform the reader of how a teen may feel when their parents have migrated leaving them in the care of somebody else who is incapable of caring for them. Language registers and dialectal variation can be seen throughout the passage and they will be analysed. Language