I saw a thousand hungry, lean, scared and betrayed faces - emotive language
hungry, lean, scared and betrayed - listing: adjectives
but there is one I will never forget - emphasis on trauma: intriguing
I was in a little hamlet just outside Gufgaduud - scenic stereotype setting
In my notebook I had jotted down instructions on how to get there - remote city
like a ghost village - simile & metaphor
In the ghoulish manner - metaphor
hunt for the most striking pictures - unempathetic
no longer impressed us much - apathy
is like the craving for a drug - simile
Pictures that stun the editors one day are written off as the same old stuff the next - unempathetic
This sounds callous - short sentence
comfort - contrast
wild, edible - evokes emotion: pathos
two young girls lying on the dirt floor of their hut - emotive
Habiba had died - emotive short sentence
No rage, no whimpering - anaphora
No rage, no whimpering, just a passing away - common
simple, frictionless, motionless - rule of 3: triplets
the smell of decaying flesh - imagery
V-shape of a boomerang - imagery
It was rotting; she was rotting - parallel sentence structure
And there was the face I will never forget - 1 sentence paragraphforemphasis & importance
My reaction to everyone else I met that day was a mixture of pity and revulsion - oxymoron
Yes, revulsion - short sentence: agreement
degeneration of the human body, sucked of its natural vitality bythe twin evils of hunger and disease - emotive language
We never say so in our TV reports - short sentence: brutalhonesty
surreptitiously to wipe your hands on the back of your trousers after you’ve held the clammy palm of a mother who has just cleaned vomit from her child’s mouth - unsympathetic
utter despair, dignity - juxtaposition
Or the old and dying man who keeps his hoe next to the mat with which, one day soon, they will shroud his corpse, as if he means to go out and till the soil once all this is over - pity
I saw that face - importance
a fleeting meeting - reflects lifespan
how could it be? - rhetorical question: disjointed sentence
What was it about that smile? - rhetorical question: disjointed sentence
I had to find out - short sentence: clarity
He came back with an answer - short sentence: clarity
And then it clicked - short sentence: clarity
The journalist observes, the subject is observed. The journalist is active, the subject is passive - reflection
cut to the heart - hyperbole
between me and him, between us and them, between the richworld and the poor world - reflection