1. What is the SUBJECT of the text/communication act? Be specific. (Don’t say “potatoes” if the subject is really “ten easy ways to prepare potatoes a family dinner.”) • The Subject of the text The River is ways brian can survive and keep Derek alive in the forest all alone. I say this is the subject of the book because throughout the story there really is not any other events other than the events on where it is telling us what Brian is doing to try and survive and keep Derek alive. This is what the stories overall meaning is. Its to entertain but show what Brian does throughout his journey of survival. This story is mainly about the Governement talking to Brian about going back to where his plane crashed 2 years ago to survive in the Forest …show more content…
What is the OCCASION for the text? Be specific. (Don’t say its “the Presidential election” if the occasion is actually “a visit by Presidential Candidate John Kerry to Central Illinois.” Remember, OCCASION consists of: time, place, social attitudes, historical events.) • The government goes to visit brian at his small house in New York where is father lives during mid summer to talk to him about going back to the Canadian Forest to survive alone all over again so they can see how he does this. The government gives him a visit since the first time he was stranded in the forest alone he survived 54 days alone before getting rescued. So they want him to go back and try and survive his so called hisctorical event or significant event all over again. Also the Occasian that attracks the readers eye when reading it is when they realize Brian must survive for 60 days all alone during the middle of summer. Many people have certain social attidtudes towards this book. They feel that survival is very serious event in the world because you are fighting for your life. However, in the book the characters feel that Brian going back to survive is serious but not as serious as the first