In both passages ‘A’ and ‘B’, authors Jones and Theroux talk about snow. They both jump straight into describing the snow to create a visual image for the readers. For example, the opening paragraph of passage ‘A’ states: “ A real-life, in your face blizzard.” In comparison, passage ‘B’ starts off with this sentence: “It clung thickly to the rooftops where it was nearly blue.” I also noticed that within both of the texts there seemed …showed first 75 words of 438 total…

…showed last 75 words of 438 total…written by a journalist (Duane Jones) as an article. You can see this by the way the text is written with its fast-pace and also by the use of ‘media-like’ vocabulary. In passage ‘B’, the author (Paul Theroux) wrote the text as a novel. Another reason why the two texts have been written totally different is the year both were written in. Text ‘A’ was written in 1996 whereas text ‘B’ was written in 1979. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**