Writing To Entertain - Commentary
The piece entitled 'Let's Talk About Sex...' is a piece written to simply entertain its audience. The text is in no way formal or serious, as it is written for a men's magazine and deals with modern issues in a modern way.
The readers of this text are intended to be predominantly male between the ages of 16 and 35. The ideal reader of this text would be a stereotypical man who is looking for a light read during his lunch break at the office.
The text itself is very euphoric, and arouses many emotions in the reader as he/she progresses through the article. For example, sympathy arises within the reader when they read the opening paragraph ("Tuesday, and I pace up and down the bar of my...."). Sympathy is created here as the audience can relate to what the author is experiencing, there is no one I can think of who hasn't been set a task of which they do not know how to complete. Sympathy is also created in this paragraph when the reader discovers the author's job severely lacks excitement. The sentence, "A couple of hours pass and I've had no progress, still behind the bar, still waiting for a customer to lighten up my day," uses repetition to emphasise the boredom that I used to go through whilst stood at that bar. Once again, this allows the audience to connect with the text as most people have had a long, laborious day at work at some point or another. These negative emotions are short lived however, as excitement is created by the use of the metaphor, "Like a chicken in a slaughter house, suddenly realising it's purpose in life". This crude sense of humour is very 'male' and was used with the intention of capturing the right target audience. The text continues to exploit human emotions to capture its audience throughout.
The piece entitled 'Let's Talk About Sex...' is a piece written to simply entertain its audience. The text is in no way formal or serious, as it is written for a men's magazine and deals with modern issues in a modern way.
The readers of this text are intended to be predominantly male between the ages of 16 and 35. The ideal reader of this text would be a stereotypical man who is looking for a light read during his lunch break at the office.
The text itself is very euphoric, and arouses many emotions in the reader as he/she progresses through the article. For example, sympathy arises within the reader when they read the opening paragraph ("Tuesday, and I pace up and down the bar of my...."). Sympathy is created here as the audience can relate to what the author is experiencing, there is no one I can think of who hasn't been set a task of which they do not know how to complete. Sympathy is also created in this paragraph when the reader discovers the author's job severely lacks excitement. The sentence, "A couple of hours pass and I've had no progress, still behind the bar, still waiting for a customer to lighten up my day," uses repetition to emphasise the boredom that I used to go through whilst stood at that bar. Once again, this allows the audience to connect with the text as most people have had a long, laborious day at work at some point or another. These negative emotions are short lived however, as excitement is created by the use of the metaphor, "Like a chicken in a slaughter house, suddenly realising it's purpose in life". This crude sense of humour is very 'male' and was used with the intention of capturing the right target audience. The text continues to exploit human emotions to capture its audience throughout.
