Dialectical Journal Analysis

1. The title of the article itself straight away emphasises on the fact how immature the explorers were, by calling them boys and showing how their childishness inevitably affects the reader – “taxpayer get’s rescue bill” – which straight away arouses a negative opinion towards the subject.
The third paragraph uses a pattern of three to describe the forces involved: “the Royal Navy, the RAF and the British Coastguards”, implying that the rescue cost a lot of money and unnecessary trouble. In the fifth paragraph the intentions of the so-called explorers are questioned as such. And the adjective “trusty” referred to the helicopter is very ironical and is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant. The journalist questions
The fourteenth, fifthteenth and sixteenth paragraph made me quite unsure about how serious the journalist was about the explorer’s ‘experience’. I dare say that that could’ve been pure irony as you are very unlikely to “survive a charge by a silver back gorilla in the Congo” and then take the Robinson R44 over the seas of Antarctica. Well, unless you have a complete lack of self-preservative instinct.
The eighteenth paragraph shocks the reader by saying that this wasn’t their only complete and epic failure and goes on to describe their previous mistakes which also involved serious problems and newspaper headlines.
The last phrase - “they’ll probably have their bottoms kicked” completely demeans the two men and their inadequate behaviour. And the childish punishment itself again emphasises on their
Samuel is obviously a very important person and is the first to have electricity in his house which makes everyone in the village gather to look at the miracle. Granny Patterson as opposed to most old people doesn’t approve of change and everything that she can’t yet understand, but the curiosity takes over even the older generation and she can’t help but “peep through the crack in her porch door”.
It is obvious that everyone is so anticipated that even the nature itself is waiting breathlessly – “the fireflies waited in the shadows”. Human interference with nature is the main idea of this piece of writing. It is obvious that “the pencil line across the sun” is an unnatural event and it shouldn’t be there. It is an example of a simile comparing two important sources of light – the sun and electricity. The repetition of the verb “closing” in the end of the second stanza shows, that although exiting, new things are always frightening, especially in the Third