Sona Choi

May 8, 2008

Analyzing “All Hope Lost for 1,800 in Village Buried by Mud”

      The information text I chose to analyze was ‘All Hope Lost for 1,800 in Village Buried by Mud’. It is a magazine article published by Nelly Sindayen in on-line edition of Sunday Times. Nelly Sindayen, who is reporter of Sunday Times wrote this article in the Philippines. I know because she is telling to people what happened in the Philippines to give information to people who are living in the Philippines of living outside of the Philippines.
The audience of this text is people who are living in the Philippines or living aboard. The purpose of this article to tell informs people outside and inside of the Philippines. People would know about what had happened.
The article was written on 2006 because hundreds of schoolchildren and their parents died of mudslide. When the local mayor went there to gather information, mud was everywhere and 1,800 people buried under the mud. There had been small earthquake measuring 6.4. Environmentalists and scientist blamed deforestation caused by loggers who have stripped away the terrain’s natural defences. And in November 1991,about 6,000 people were killed in Leyte by floods and landslides triggered by the tropical storm. And she said that Leyte is no stranger to natural calamities. She was objective because she was just reporting what happened in Leyte. And she is not having any strong emotions in her writing. I think she is not persuasive because she is not sharing any of her opinion about the article.
The article was published on February 19, 2006. This publication date is important because it helps us to know what happened in current event in the country.

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