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these soldiers; possibly trying to gain empathy from the readers and the adverb
honestly suggests its very truthful and quite unbelievable creating an attitude of
support.
The purpose of a newspaper is to inform its audience on the current everyday
situations which may affect them in some way. The transformation piece
succeeded in informing the audience because it had taken the structure of a
typical newspaper article the 5 W which are known as the Who, What, Where,
When and Why. The who factor is fulfilled as the headline is clearly written as
British Soldiers. The what factor is achieved because the article informs the
reader exactly what has occurred through utterances such as declaratives Soldiers
were killed during an operation to disrupt insurgents giving the reader a quick
and real insight of the tragedy. The where factor is attained as the
transformation is set in Afghanistan, which is known to have problems with the
civilians. The location in this text transformation is very significant as Wikipedia
has reported As of 6 March 2014, the British forces have suffered 448 fatalities
and 2,173 wounded in action, another 5,049 have suffered from disease or nonbattle injuries. By choosing the location it makes it seem as if tragedies in terms
of death and war are a very regular occurrence which the tabloids such as Daily
Mail and the media also manage to portray it as a regular affair. The when
factor is accomplished as its stated when exactly the tragedy had occurred,
clearly achieved by the declarative The heroic soldiers were targeted after going
out on patrol on Friday night
I had used graphology features such as images, as Daily Mail tend to use images
to possibly gain attention from its audience by using shocking images (which in my
transformation piece I have used an image of a crime scene and a man fleeing
attempting to escape) I have chosen this picture as it could be deemed as
emotional therefore creating a sense of personal attachment further making
relation to the theme of patriotism.