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This text is a descriptive text from the website because it mostly tells the background information of food crisis in Sahel region of West and Central Africa before saying what Oxfam international itself is doing in order to help people living within the area. The aim of the text is to review significant problem occurring by saying the people’s daily life living which should be treated.The people who mostly will interested in this specific topic are local, operation related to humanity or people who have faced the same problem because they would have a lot of concern and sympathy to support Oxfam in order to help people.

Looking at the content and picture, the text is mostly about the people in Sahel region of West and Central Africa who are facing food crisis in the past years. A lot of people do not have enough food and water to live because of many factors including climate and scarce resources that heightens up the food prices. Therefore, Oxfam international claims that they are helping, preventing and trying to supply food and resources for people living in the area. The message that the author is trying to build the sympathy emotion and convey is the long-term food crisis in Africa, having been infecting and killing people for many year, which need to be taken into account. Therefore, the author is trying to mention the goodness of Oxfam international by saying its operation within the area in order to hook the emotional and concerning readers.

The tone of the text is sympathetic because it is about food crisis, which have been affecting people’s life for many years, resulting to the illness, struggling and death of African people. The atmosphere is sad and gloomy because a lot of people are dying, however; there is still some happiness within this atmosphere because Oxfam international is in its helping and supporting operation which might cure the problems.

Within the text, Oxfam international’s perspective is objective from its data receiving for many years. It can be seen by the use of “According to national early warning systems…..” and “Recent reports said….” that it is not biased or made by themselves in order to make this website trustable. The ideological standpoint in this text is not obvious, however, it gives some sense of helping and providing the people who do not have or have less. The ideological can be obvious in the sense of sharing. The repetition of Oxfam in the last paragraph emphasizes the fact that they are actually helping these people, not the other organization. It can also be said that Oxfam international is stepping and actually helping without any doubt because it uses first person or specific pronoun in order to hook and create some emotional sense relating to Oxfam to the reader. The paragraph structure used in this text is trying to build up emotion and ideas of struggling people. The use of image of local riding sad-looking donkey at the beginning of the text including the catchphrase “Food Crisis in Sahel” creates sympathetic impression to the readers. The dry ground and probably bright sunlight (because of the shadow) also creates the sense of shortages of water and foods that African people are struggling with. The structure of this text is providing from background information to specific data. The first bold paragraph is hooking and creating curious emotion for the readers to find out more about the situation because it uses specific data such as “12 million people……are facing a food crisis…” and imperative emotional word such as “we hope…”. The following paragraph provides basic information about food crisis, however, it also tells consequences, such as “……provides an opportunity to avoid the mistake of the pass”, if this problem does not take into account which this particular is hooking the readers into the emotion of caring. Moving to the subheading, it mostly talks and goes in depth to the specific data which builds up more sympathetic emotion because of the use of number such as “5.4 million people”. The use of paragraph-ending has significant emotional touch to the readers who are actually concerning to this problem because “2.4 million people don’t have always enough to eat” shows that these people really need to be helped. Coming to the last subheading, all of the sympathy emotional makes Oxfam international looks very good and helpful because it is the only organization mentioned in this text. Therefore, if this organization is gathering donation, people who are really concerning about this problem will definitely donate for them since there are only what Oxfam is trying to help African people in the last subheading. It shows only its goodness including the use of repetition of Oxfam is emphasizing that Oxfam is the best one.