Maggie O’Kane tells the article in a different way. She uses something called a ‘fictional technique’. She tells the article like a story. It makes it more interesting for the reader so the reader doesn’t feel bored. It helps us to feel what it is like to be them.
Maggie O’Kane’s descriptions are powerful. Her descriptions are very colorful as well. ‘A woman in a white bib and green overall mopped up her red blood.’ She also uses dark and cold words. ‘Her blood dripped on the icy floor’. These descriptions build up suspense and getting the reader more into the story.
One of another Maggie O’Kane’s way is do not be obvious. Her description isn’t obvious; it’s more in a complicated and mysterious way. ‘The crowds shuffled by the window’. This gives the reader more ideas of what it’s happening. Her description is very detailed as well. She wrote every single thing that happened. ‘Cardboard packages leftover from the Gulf War, holding packets of chili con carne and chicken a la king mix. Packages with Juicy Fruit chewing gum and brown plastic sachets of cherry and cocoa powder’. This method also gives the reader a wider idea of what was happening.
She uses quotations and dialogue as well. ‘I saw the old woman coming down carrying bags full of rations and then I couldn’t stop myself.’ Saudin said’ and ‘Are the packages in Deiho’s field?’ she kept asking. ‘It’s for my children. I have nothing to cook for them. No food.’ This makes the article more like a story or fiction and makes it more compelling and emotional.
One of another way of her style of writing is she doesn’t use the word ‘I’ as herself. She uses a 3rd Person mode to describe her story. ‘He met Semsa just outside his front gate’. Readers don’t care what you did or want, they just want to know the article. She also tells the truth. Don’t try to balance the truth, tell the straight truth because sometimes the truth has no balance. The truth can be unfair sometimes. ‘Five Serb soldiers walk towards them. “Come on Muslims, get your American parcels.” They panicked. Semsa was running about five feet in front of him when she hit a mine. It blew her apart.’ Sometimes the truth can make readers feel sentimental or angry, making them want to carry on reading to find out the ending.
Maggie O’Kane does not use conclusion. The readers don’t care what you think. She believes all the readers have different conclusion and disparate feelings for the article.
