Carers and care workers are the best kind of people. So why are they treated so disgracefully?
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Final draft
February 2014
Polly Li 11N
This article, by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, is from the comment session on The Guardian, published on Tuesday 27 August 2013. It is about why carers and care workers are treated so disgracefully. Rhiannon explores issues of shocking facts that care workers are served defectively and the government’s negligence. Rhiannon's central idea is to tell the readers about how she feels towards these themes and her concerns. At a deeper level, she gains the reader’s awareness about logical issues. This is a piece of analyzing and commenting style of writing; I want to see how effective it is in siding the reader towards the view of how badly the care workers are treated. My reason for choosing this article is because my parents are care workers, and they always tell me stories about how inadequate the others are to them and how they feel regretful about it. The title aroused my interest, as I wanted to know more about the treatment that most of the care workers receive.
This article starts with a rhetorical question, “Carers and care workers are the best kind of people. So why are they treated so disgracefully?“ By using a rhetorical question and emotive language in the title, it emphasizes the point made and idea expressed. This emotive sentence has the effect of making the reader feel empathetic towards the care workers and want to know what is happening to them. Using the word "disgracefully" has a powerful effect on readers. It can attract readers who feel empathetic or even care workers to read this article because they might feel displeased for them or to see if the writer has t...
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...n the phrase “We were extremely lucky to live in a rural area where the resources were relatively upstretched”, the word “extremely” is not used as a hyperbole but to reveal the genuine hope and gratitude of the writer. The use of the word has upsetting connotations. The melodramatic tone of this sentence creates a powerful impact, making the writer’s point clear.
In conclusion, I think this is a very persuasive and effective article, which uses powerful descriptions and imagery that draws a picture in the reader’s mind. After reading this article, I felt extremely in grief and sympathetic for them; they are a group of people who do all the hard work for the community but they rarely receive reasonable treatment from the government and the others. The author wants to pass this message to us by using continuous and different persuasive techniques through the article.
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