A person’s life path is ever changing ever evolving every action or inaction, every event; decision will change things even if it’s only in an insignificant barely noticeable way. The two texts, the article “like a horror movie” and the visual “ the migrant mother” use different technologies and language techniques to convey the concept of changing lives.
Both texts represent two different situations that have severely changed the lives of the people in the article and the family in the photograph. They both had a stable life where they were sheltered under a warm roof, but then lost everything they owned and became homeless. “How would you feel if you lost everything you’ve worked for in mere seconds?” it is an unbearable thing.
Although each text uses different language features, they both depict the hurt and sufferings that the people have faced. The article uses witness’s account, factual …show more content…
It is hard to imagine the level of poverty and struggles that this family is suffering from.
Similarly, the article, “ like a horror movie” depicts the sufferings and the horror that the earthquake survivors have faced after the destruction of their town and the loss of their beloved ones. These people have become homeless after the destruction of their houses. The article uses different language features than the photograph, however, it also conveys clearly the hardship that the earthquake survivors have faced.
The emotions of the survivors regarding the loss of their beloved ones and their own injuries and the impacts of the earthquake on their lives are conveyed through the journalist use of witness’s account “ Everyone around me was saying things like, it hurts” “ my right leg was pinned by something so I couldn’t move” “ as we were eating lunch there was a major shaking, and suddenly the floor