A Passage To Africa

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I have my boards next year (Edexcel IGCSE) and i really aspire to get an A* in English Language (1st Lang. famine away from the headlines, a famine of quiet suffering and lonely death', this uses anaphora (where a word is repeated at beginning of successive clauses) in this case 'famine'. I had been impressed by George Alagiah the man and the author of Home from Home but this book does memory an injustice.

His one regret at the end is he never learned the man’s name – that the one man who made him see clearly remains his ‘ nameless friend ’, the oxymoron picking up the irony that the man never gained any individuality, though it was a unique experience. It follows George as he becomes a reporter for the BBC for Africa, and through this, he takes us through much of the recent history of Africa (which sadly has involved many civil wars, corrupt dicators and famines). They feel the urge to know what happens next and their curiosity becomes stronger with each step of her life. The Cherokee had warned about an illness that nobody in Alfred, Georgia paid attention to, so all forty-six prisoners stayed, scooping mush and tapping their chains, resting and planning their next move.As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana – the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire.

The fact that he never found out his name shows that for him he became simply an object, or a moment of revelation', and without a name he becomes little more than the 'facts and figures' which the narrator thinks of as easy journalism, which doesn't show the human story. The strategy of making the audience feel sorry for the author let’s them feel as if they are somehow connected to what she is saying. Semantic field of ghosts and death continues into the next paragraph which starts with 'ghoulish manner'. After the author's two visits to India, the great novel A Passage to India (1924) was produced; it is a novel by E. H.Lawrence; Comments and summary Poems on Love Prayer before Birth prayer for strength Refugee Blues; W.The ending is distinctive and different: Alagiah expresses his gratitude, his awe, his acceptance, and his apology to the nameless man who smiled at him amidst the sea of suffering , all in one sentence: I owe you one.