Sun vampires
How does Cayte Williams try to persuade the readers to her point of view?
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Content / arguments presented;
The effects of linguistic features;
Presentational devices.
The article ‘Sun Vampires’ appeared in The Big Issue in May 1997. The Big Issue is aimed at a wide audience, including the younger generation, and is an effective way to reach the youth through a magazine, including young adults using tanning beds. The Big Issue is sold by the homeless on the street and can usually be found in any town centre or city.
The heading of the article I am analysing is ‘Sun Vampires’ and this in turn contradicts itself as vampires are associated with darkness, whereas the sun is bright and heated. This will engage the reader as they will be intrigued to find out what the article is about. There is also a use of a paradox within the heading. It is a rather strange as it uses a ‘vampire’ within the heading alongside the word sun. This implies that tanning is unnatural and somewhat freakish.
Straight after the heading there is an elongated sub-heading that further supports the idea that tanning is an unnatural thing to do and also links tanning to an addiction. Williams also uses a neologism, “Tanorexics,” that suggests to the reader that she is treating tanning like a psychological addiction. She links the word ‘tan’ with the word anorexia. I believe she does this as we know that anorexia is a horrible illness that is conditionally linked to how people feel about the way they look; the link specifically being an obsessive view of the way they are presented. Anorexics don’t eat as they believe they will get fat and ‘tanorexics’ tan as they believe they will be presented better with darker skin tones. We learn that the sun bed users would do anything for their tan. We know that it is starting to become more than just an addiction as Williams says “They’re desperate for a sun fix.” The word ‘desperate’ really exaggerates how much the
You will need too need consider:
Content / arguments presented;
The effects of linguistic features;
Presentational devices.
The article ‘Sun Vampires’ appeared in The Big Issue in May 1997. The Big Issue is aimed at a wide audience, including the younger generation, and is an effective way to reach the youth through a magazine, including young adults using tanning beds. The Big Issue is sold by the homeless on the street and can usually be found in any town centre or city.
The heading of the article I am analysing is ‘Sun Vampires’ and this in turn contradicts itself as vampires are associated with darkness, whereas the sun is bright and heated. This will engage the reader as they will be intrigued to find out what the article is about. There is also a use of a paradox within the heading. It is a rather strange as it uses a ‘vampire’ within the heading alongside the word sun. This implies that tanning is unnatural and somewhat freakish.
Straight after the heading there is an elongated sub-heading that further supports the idea that tanning is an unnatural thing to do and also links tanning to an addiction. Williams also uses a neologism, “Tanorexics,” that suggests to the reader that she is treating tanning like a psychological addiction. She links the word ‘tan’ with the word anorexia. I believe she does this as we know that anorexia is a horrible illness that is conditionally linked to how people feel about the way they look; the link specifically being an obsessive view of the way they are presented. Anorexics don’t eat as they believe they will get fat and ‘tanorexics’ tan as they believe they will be presented better with darker skin tones. We learn that the sun bed users would do anything for their tan. We know that it is starting to become more than just an addiction as Williams says “They’re desperate for a sun fix.” The word ‘desperate’ really exaggerates how much the