Analysing Structure In Gcse English Language

Analysing Structure

How has the writer, Bernard Taylor, structured the text to interest you as a reader? lt;/p>

You could write about:

what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning

how and why the writer changes this focus as the source develops

any other structural features that interest you.

The rocks have a certain look about them: dense, igneous and from a recent lava flow. I can almost feel their hard, sharp, angular surface in the heat of the summer sunshine and want to understand their geology, their connection with deep time.

The restaurant, perched on the basaltic rocks, provides a refuge from the Sun and even from rain and wind. Concrete has a certain look: white, modern and enduring. But will it prove as resilient as the rocks? The scene is now calm and idyllic, but in the storms of winter, waves crash into the rocks and sea-spray pummels the boarded-up windows of the temporarily abandoned building.

There are long vistas across the bay and out into the deep blue sea. When all is quiet, we can experience a sense of oneness with the world, with the universe. Freud described this oceanic feeling as being the origin of all religious belief.

We enjoy the warmth of the summer days, cool drinks and tapas snacks, and put the harshness of sudden storms out of mind. Perhaps we are only half-aware that the climate may change suddenly we may have reached a tipping point. The restaurant celebrates the whale and the history of whaling, but the whales are largely gone. Their slaughter was the first of many adverse environmental impacts. The changing weather at this site may foreshadow the approaching climate catastrophe. W. H. Auden warned us that doom is deeper and darker than any sea dingle.