Jessica Read Reportage

• Voice?

  Egocentric

  Reflective

  Descriptive

  Emotional
• Audience?

  Guardian audience

  Lifestyle readers

  Divers / Fans of Read
• Purpose?

  To entertain - sell copies

  Offer a perspective of the tragedy and show the power of nature

  Share / promote beauty of scuba diving

  To inform
• Mode?

  Reportage, yet overlaps with the work of a memoir
• Context?

  Guardian weekend magazine = anyone can write, entertainment and engagement rather than news.

  Read = not a journalist

  Bohol, Philippines earthquake, 7.2 in scale, over 200 deaths + 350,000 displacement of people.
• Key techniques?

  Figurative and sensory language

  Juxtapositions - tranquil lexis vs destructive, beauty vs death, nature vs human

  Shifts between personal pronouns and collective pronouns