English essay Readers are being positioned to sympathise with the children and the cruel wants and demands they might endure from their parents, who seem to mean well. Within the texts Alter of the Family and Courage of the Soldiers the authors use variety of techniques to create a response from the readers. Alter of the Family written by Michael Wilding uses context, point of view and language devices to help us feel sympathy for David and how his father is treating him. The other text Courage of the Soldiers written by Pauline Nguyen uses context language devices and characterisation to feel sympathy for what the kids have to endure. Context can help an author position readers to see a different perspective to a text set years ago when tradition and culture was different. Within the text Alter of the family the author Michael Wilding has written about a dad who thinks highly of his son and doesn’t want his son to be seen as feminine, which back when this was written, would have been seen as …show more content…
Within the text, David’s father uses a variety of words to convey messages towards his son such as damm, fool, poofter to get the point he is saying into David’s head. David’s only friend is his sister and they play tons of games. The fathers walks in and shouts at David “Damn grown boy playing with dolls” David only wants to play, his dad doesn’t want him to feminine. We are positioned to feel sympathy as David doesn’t have any friends making us feel deep sadness towards him. Another event in the text is when David’s father shouts as his sister “At least I’m not a Livy-livered poofter” this abuse makes a feel anger towards the father as he doesn’t treat his kids with any respect at all. Within Alter of the Family the use of various conventions to help create a opinion within the readers both sympathy and anger towards both David and his