Language Analysis Essay
Not all workers are equal

The editorial, ‘Not all workers are equal’ featured in the Age on 15 August 2012 focuses on the issue that workers in Pakistan work in conditions that are not safe and can lead to extreme dangers . The editorial is accompanied by a photo that focuses on two sad women who appear to be in mourning, this evidently support the writing piece displayed after the death of all the people in Pakistan due to the poor work conditions. The writer contends that Australians should care about this problem and acknowledge that what is happening over in Pakistan would be illegal over here. The writer uses a sad and authoritative tone to enhance the emotions that are intended to get across to the audience, this is revealed a lot throughout the text from words such as “appalling” and “disturbing:.
The writer opens strongly by capturing the reader’s guilt, using comparison and appeal to relate our comfortable lives to the unfortunate lives and events in Third World Countries around the world. The writer focused on the appeal of guilt to endure the audience and alarm them about those people whose lives have been torn apart and then focusing on the harmful lives of workers in Pakistan. From getting the attention of the readers at this point, the writer then goes on to use facts and figures to back up and support their point. ‘Of the estimated 500 people said to be in the three-storey concrete building at the time, at least 264 died.’ This fact provides the reader with something to believe and make them open their eyes to what actually happens beyond Australia.
To plant a different aspect of thoughts into the mind of the reader a rhetorical question was asked. “Why should Australians be interested in this particular tragedy, to in the shoe factory fire that killed two dozen more on the same day at Lahore in eastern Pakistan?” This