I denne study guide får du hjælp til at analysere Gary Younges artikel “End all immigration controls”, som har været brugt til skriftlig eksamen i Engelsk A på HTX den 29. november 2019. Ud over hjælp til analysen, får du et summary af teksten og idéer til at vurdere den.
Opgaveformulering
Write an analytical essay in which you analyse the text “End all immigration controls – they’re a sign we value money more than people” by Gary Younge. Part of your essay must focus on argumentative and rhetorical devices. Based on your analysis, assess how successfully Gary Younge communicates his views.
Gary Younge (f. 1969) er en britisk forfatter, professor, klummeskribent og journalist. Hans artikel “End all immigration controls – they’re a sign we value money more than people” er fra 2017 og udgivet på The Guardians website, hvor Younge er redaktør.
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Allusions to historical events or people
Younge talks about a specific historic event – the fall of the Berlin Wall and its aftermath: “As country after country shed its Stalinist overlords and went into free-market freefall” (ll. 15-16). Here, he alludes to the ending of the Eastern bloc and to how those countries replaced socialism with capitalism.
Younge uses the Wall to highlight the West’s alleged hypocrisy. According to him, Western countries failed to welcome East-European immigrants, even after the East embraced the West’s economic system (capitalism), and they apparently shared the same values of freedom. Younge uses the story of the Wall to illustrate his point that the Wall might be gone, but there are still lots of national borders across the world.
Younge refers to a famous historical figure, Martin Luther King, and makes an allusion to King's famous speech “I Have a Dream” (ll. 30-32). In his speech, King expressed a vision of the future which many considered unrealistic or utopian. Younge uses the allusion to justify his own idealism. King dreamed of a seemingly utopian society – and achieved it. Therefore, Younge argues that his idea of no border controls is not that unrealistic after all.
