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.
