Seeking Refuge

Seeking Refuge

The writer of the article entitled "Seeking refuge from the rhetoric"

begins the article by stating factual information that he personally

watched along with hundreds of journalists and witnesses the first

plane load of Kosovan refugees arrive at Leeds Bradford airport. He

then goes on in the article to express his own personal opinion of the

events that went on to take place some months later. To sway the

reader to his way of thinking he then proceeds to quote information he

has found from another source to describe the conditions that surround

this subject, he then quotes another article as saying that a "fight

at a fairground in Dover resulted in a stream of anti-refugee

rhetoric" from politicians and journalists.

The writer then starts to use negative language that initial makes the

reader feel that he is anti-refugee. He then uses statements made by

commentators on this subject such as "Floods of refugees are swamping

us" and also that this country has been "taken for a ride". He then

goes on to use emotive language as way of describing how one woman is

reported to give her views. He says that she "screeched" her opinion

with comments like "this country's just a soft touch" in a quotation

from a national newspaper. This showed that the woman felt very

strongly about the refuge problem facing Britain today. The fact that

she screeched her opinion is trying to infer that she views immigrants

in a negative way. The writer then tries to appeal to the readers own

sense of morality by reminding us that we are a multi national society

here in Britain and that after some "eighty years" or so we have had

refugees from many countries settle in Britain.

Positive language is then used by the writer to explain another good

point he says that "As they have throughout history, some refugees

will go home, while others will stay and contribute to the society

that has given them a second chance." showing that some do return home

after a short stay to their own countries of origin if conditions