Indledning
Is it possible that one experience can change a person’s perspective on human equality? If you ask the author Michael Faber, he would say it is possible.
This is particularly evident in his autobiographic essay “Me and Dave and Mount Olympus”, where he tells about a life-changing experience with a homeless man, which in many ways changed his viewpoint of life.
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Uddrag
The language in the essay shows the receiver how Michael Faber’s personality is. There is no doubt that it is a formal text, as many foreign words are added in his sentences such as; "monastic", "accumulated" and "existential".
Also, he uses a lot of adjectives in many of his sentences, which we especially see on page 3, line 99-100; “We sat in a dingy kitchen papered with advice and info for the homeless, alcoholic, pregnant, drug addicted”.
In addition to the use of many adjectives, he must make sure to show that he is at a higher level than other people, and therefore he also uses expressions in a foreign language such as: "terra incognita" and "Aussie naïveté”.
Michael Faber also writes a very remarkable sentence on page 1, line 26: "Both of us were writers, misfits, snobs"
here you can see that he directly says that his neighbors in Australia saw Faber and his wife as snobs, which he describes with nouns with a negative wording and tricolons to emphasize that he and his wife were really arrogant in the past.
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