The Lord Of The Flies Newspaper Analysis
Analysis of a Newspaper
This tabloid article about the death of Simon uses exaggerated language in the title, ‘’Killed by friends?” in my opinion, this instantly attracts the reader, because there are two words which are not used to be seen together: “Killed” could mean violence and chaos where “Friends” relate to peace, this suggests that there is something shocking going to happen in the article. When we look at the article we notice the sub title “Ignorance of younglings” the word “ignorance” could suggests that the act that “younglings” done is reckless and they were unaware of their actions, therefore making us think that the fault for Simon being killed shouldn’t be put on the children whom killed him, because they are still too …show more content…
In this part of the article two people Piggy and Ralph are highlighted as Simons “friends”, because the article is tabloid, we will see that the newspaper is biased against Ralph and Piggy. Remembering the first part we thought of Piggy as guy whom tries to say that in was only Simons fault for being killed, and so it makes us now feel grudge on him because even though we see that he is highlighted as his friend, he still lets his friend die and even blames him for being killed. This part focuses on making Piggy and Ralph, more Ralph to be shown as a person who let his friend die. The language in here has a lot of questions which judge Ralphs decisions and this lets the readers mind to be manipulated better into thinking that Ralph is the guy who killed Simon by not simply telling the others not to kill him. It makes us think that Ralph had the power to save Simon, but he didn’t use it. Words such as “for the sake of his reputation” suggest that Ralph is selfish and therefore this could bring even more hatred from the reader towards Ralph even more.
The picture with a saying “a friend in need is a friend indeed” is used to show that Ralph was not a real friend to Simon, because friends would’ve helped their friends in trouble, and wouldn’t let them be killed in front of their
This tabloid article about the death of Simon uses exaggerated language in the title, ‘’Killed by friends?” in my opinion, this instantly attracts the reader, because there are two words which are not used to be seen together: “Killed” could mean violence and chaos where “Friends” relate to peace, this suggests that there is something shocking going to happen in the article. When we look at the article we notice the sub title “Ignorance of younglings” the word “ignorance” could suggests that the act that “younglings” done is reckless and they were unaware of their actions, therefore making us think that the fault for Simon being killed shouldn’t be put on the children whom killed him, because they are still too …show more content…
In this part of the article two people Piggy and Ralph are highlighted as Simons “friends”, because the article is tabloid, we will see that the newspaper is biased against Ralph and Piggy. Remembering the first part we thought of Piggy as guy whom tries to say that in was only Simons fault for being killed, and so it makes us now feel grudge on him because even though we see that he is highlighted as his friend, he still lets his friend die and even blames him for being killed. This part focuses on making Piggy and Ralph, more Ralph to be shown as a person who let his friend die. The language in here has a lot of questions which judge Ralphs decisions and this lets the readers mind to be manipulated better into thinking that Ralph is the guy who killed Simon by not simply telling the others not to kill him. It makes us think that Ralph had the power to save Simon, but he didn’t use it. Words such as “for the sake of his reputation” suggest that Ralph is selfish and therefore this could bring even more hatred from the reader towards Ralph even more.
The picture with a saying “a friend in need is a friend indeed” is used to show that Ralph was not a real friend to Simon, because friends would’ve helped their friends in trouble, and wouldn’t let them be killed in front of their