ANALYSIS OF TWO PIECES OF WRITING AT THE MORGUE – Helen Garner, True Stories 1996 This article is written in the first person’s point of view. The style is informal, almost chatty in spite of the morbid topic it deals with. The author uses this style to tell the reader a story, like telling a friend an experience. The author’s feelings and thoughts are freely expressed. This helps to put the reader into the author’…showed first 75 words of 525 total…

…showed last 75 words of 525 total…a result. As I read on, I start to read with more indifference because I start to think “it’s not really any of my concern, it’ll not happen to me anyway”. The author does not try to engage any feelings of sympathy from the reader. Although both articles are about the same length, this second article is more boring because the author does not link the subjects to the reader or the community.