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    The writer uses a variety of techniques to criticize the actions of two explorers. Through the use of quotes, rhetorical questions, and descriptive language, the writer portrays the explorers' expedition as foolish and juvenile. The writer implies their qualifications did not matter given how unwisely they acted. Overall, the writer effectively conveys a biased and sarcastic view of the explorers to the reader through multiple literary techniques.

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    The writer uses a variety of techniques to criticize the actions of two explorers. Through the use of quotes, rhetorical questions, and descriptive language, the writer portrays the explorers' expedition as foolish and juvenile. The writer implies their qualifications did not matter given how unwisely they acted. Overall, the writer effectively conveys a biased and sarcastic view of the explorers to the reader through multiple literary techniques.

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    The writer uses a variety of techniques to criticize the actions of two explorers. Through the use of quotes, rhetorical questions, and descriptive language, the writer portrays the explorers' expedition as foolish and juvenile. The writer implies their qualifications did not matter given how unwisely they acted. Overall, the writer effectively conveys a biased and sarcastic view of the explorers to the reader through multiple literary techniques.

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    The writer uses a variety of techniques to criticize the actions of two explorers. Through the use of quotes, rhetorical questions, and descriptive language, the writer portrays the explorers' expedition as foolish and juvenile. The writer implies their qualifications did not matter given how unwisely they acted. Overall, the writer effectively conveys a biased and sarcastic view of the explorers to the reader through multiple literary techniques.

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    The writer, in means of a great variety of language and structure, effectively


    conveys to the reader what people thought about the actions of the two explorers.
    Firstly, it is most evident how the writer provides the reader with an appropriate
    mixture of both facts and opinion. The first impression is created in the title itself
    as it hints the reader of some criticism, as well questions the reader using a
    rhetorical question, making them think about whether they were real ‘explorers’
    or just ‘boys messing about’. As the text progresses, we can see the writer makes
    use of the lexical patterning of theatre by making use of words such as ‘drama’ to
    describe the actions of the two explorers in an ironical manner. This, along with
    the dynamic words like ‘plucked’ , ‘ditched’ and ‘scrambled’ used to elaborate on
    certain parts of their expedition, portrays his bias against the two explorers as he
    also reminds the reader that they were to pay in ‘tens of thousands of pounds’ for
    the ‘rescue’ mission.
    The writer also doesn’t not present his criticism directly; he makes use of quotes
    by experts and even their own wives to show the reader, not only what they
    thought, but also what his personal opinion was. He highlights how Mr. Brook’s
    wife herself had no regard for them, by quoting her, explain the situation as ‘boys
    messing about with a helicopter’ which was also quoted in the title. Also, when
    Morris uses direct speech to quote Mrs. Vestey, it is clearly evident that she did
    not sound astonished; this can depict that she was used to this kind of situations.
    Furthermore, the writer takes an approach of making the reader question their
    actions even more when he extensively elaborates on their qualifications - making
    use of a much longer paragraph that standouts - which however, is soon followed
    by a single sentence paragraph that shows how none of these ‘qualifications’
    really mattered, if they acted so unwisely that they took an ‘R44’ to such a ‘hostile
    environment’. This demonstrates to the reader that the writer thought their
    actions were very unwise and childish.
    Moreover, the writer uses a range of other techniques to illustrate to the reader
    how their actions seemed very comical and juvenile. Morris achieves this by
    highlighting how they called an R44 a ‘trusty helicopter’ and how they tried to
    prove ‘how good relations between east and west had become’ by ‘crossing of the
    56-mile-wide frozen Bering Strait between the US and Russia’. Mainly, this
    highlights their juvenile nature as they seem like children who apparently
    comprehend the world to be so simple while it is extremely complex and bound
    with laws. The writer creates a dismissive tone, emphasizing his undernimming
    and lack of regard towards the explorers. Not only that, he quotes a ‘helicopter
    expert’ to prove to the reader that ‘It sounds as if they were pushing it to the
    maximum’.
    As a summary, the writer, with the help of quotes by Mrs.Vesty and other experts,
    rhetorical questions, a contrast of how the royal Navy’s ship was surveying
    ‘uncharted waters’ before they had got involved in a rescue mission and extra
    detail about the R44’ and with a many other techniques manages to effectively
    convey to the reader his biased, sarcastic and frustrating thoughts about the
    explorers’ actions to the reader.
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    Word count - 568

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