Salty taste of summer for Neptune's children.
Megan Jacobson's speech explores many powerful techniques and ideas, which collide together to form a very descriptive, powerful and inspirational narrative, that won her the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year 2001.
The purpose of the narrative made by Megan Jacobson was to entertain the general public and to enjoy. Another purpose, which Megan would have aimed at, was to win the competition (the SMH young writer of the year) and therefore gaining respect and admiration from others, not just from her area but also from around Australia and perhaps the world. The piece of writing was shown in the Sydney Morning Herald to a wide range of audience, from young teenagers to the elderly.
Megan Jacobson's diction was chosen with a lot of power and thought. Megan uses very powerful and overwhelming words and phrases including "slivers of flesh that mingle with our sweat and tears of laughter" and "the weatherboard shacks we call our homes have paint bubbled and stripped off the timber by the sun's relentless rays". These are very significant as they shape the imagery scene. The use of verbs, metaphors, similes and adjectives are used to the full extent.
The tone that Megan has used throughout her piece of writing was descriptive, emotional, passionate and powerful. All these different types of tones help create the piece of writing to become very descriptive and very powerful.
The first few paragraphs capture our attention because they are filled with detailed word and it is in a friendly tone; "It is the best mango season of the decade, and the air is bursting with the smell of over-ripe fruit. A mango has grown so large it has ruptured its skin and fallen off the tree onto my head". These are only the first few lines and already have filled our minds with powerful imagery and descriptive verbs.
The complete story was very descriptive making it extremely easy to understand.
