english due tomorrow, work tomorrow night after my TAFE test, thursday i have a 2 hour math test and another 2 hour test relating to ancient history... friday i have off
weekend is study and work
Monday - Bio test 2 hrs
tuesday second math test 2 1/2 hrs
wednesday Pe test + assignment due
thursday Tech test +assignment due
Friday- day off, sherwood street festival with aamie (hopefully)
my english
Martin Bryant has been imprisoned for 18 years as one of Australia’s most well-known murderers as he was responsible for the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 which left 35 confirmed dead and dozens more injured. This “Evil in a Cell” Sunday Mail article gives a recap on the crime that Mr Bryant was convicted for and tells of his current confinement status and 18 year imprisonment details with subtle use of emotive language, manipulating visual features within the text and promoting certain views of Mr Bryant from prison guards and prisoners whilst marginalising the perspectives of those close to Mike and even Mr Bryant himself.
Martin “Porky Pig” Bryant is shown as a dim-witted man in his current prison photos, he is now a 160Kg bald man presented as a slow, mentally challenged man who doesn’t seem to know where he is going. These current photos of him in prison are a visual binary opposite to the past photos of him prior to the Port Arthur Massacre; the prior photos show a cold young man, athletically slim body type with long, dense blonde hair. The past and present photos of Mr Bryant are a visual binary opposite due to the physical changes of Mr Bryant’s body, from a young, cold, slim and hair covered man to a morbid, slow and bald older male, these physical differences of then to now invokes an emotional reaction that is almost one of disgust. The headline of “EVIL IN A CAGE” is strategically placed next to the photo of Mr Bryant behind prison bars in order to provide a clearer and more direct focus on the subject of the article. The headline plays an essential role in the article as it grabs the attention of the readers and positions said readers to have a negative outlook on the subject that is being presented, in this case Mr Bryant, and to also view the authors invited reading of the article which is how evil he is and the reasons to which he is in a cage.
*How the paragraphs represent him, the writers perspective and so on*
The writer of the newspaper article Sarah Blake names Mr Bryant as “a pathetic, obese loner…” and has further positioned the reader by intentionally foregrounding a negative perspective on Mr Bryant as to privilege the bias attitude towards him, this attitude is reinforced with statements from both the jail workers and prisoners associated with him. With emotive words such as… and active agents present within the text like “Bryant slaughter 20 people…” (pg 3) the negative perspective is continually reinforced.
Whilst the foregrounded privilege of negativity and hate gives a manipulated perspective of Mr Bryant the background perspective of Mr Bryant is not commented on, him mother or family friend Joan Errington Dunne are not given nor is his own statement of events despite not being allowed media coverage interviews
(receives “fan mail pg 5)
With the prisoners and guards statements … is manipulated into a negative outlook on Porky” as language features such as… promote the perspective of contempt towards Martin “Porky Pig” Byant.
*who is silenced/ foregrounded*