Question

Analyze the following passage for audience, purpose, tone, and perspective to show the theme. "Thus absolutely lost in thought, and dying with the very thoughts of drowning, I come up with the post, who I did not see 'til very deliberately a few paces, when we entered a thicket of trees and shrubs, and I perceived by the horse's going, we were on the decent of a hill, which, as we come nearer the button, 'twas totally dark with the trees that surrounded it. But I knew by the going of the horse we had entered the water, which my guide told me was the hazardous river he had told me of; and he, riding up close to my side, bid me not fear-we should be over immediately. I now rallied all the courage I was mistress of, knowing that I must either venture my fate of drowning , or be left like the children in the wood. So, as the post bid me, I gave reins to my nag; and sitting as steady as just before in the canoe, in a few minutes got safe to the other side, which he told me was the Narragansett country." (Sarah Kemble Knight, The Private Journal)

Answer 1

Answer and Explanation:

Audience: a reader curious about travel writting.

Purpose: The purpose of a travel journal is to entretain but also to informe, it is an informative narrative of how the traveling experience was in years 1700 in the American colonies.

Tone: It is a dramatic and exciting tone that calls the attention of the reader and that sets and adventurous text.

Perspective: The journal reflects a narrative in first person, that means the writter wrote from her own experience in traveling. It is also written from the prespective of a women who is traveling when it wasn´t very common for a women to travel to the colonies because of the conditions.

Answer 2

Audience: Readers who enjoy adventure

Purpose: To tell a story of fear and finally relief as the narrator descends in a perilous trail and comes out alive on the other side.

Tone: Fear of dying, the narrator states at the beginning her fear of drawning.

Perspective: From the beginning of the descent, the build of fear and anxiety until the safe landing on the Narragansett country.