“You’re 100% wrong about…. Seafood”

a) Adjectives, “slimy kaimoana”

b) “how it helps to understand writers attitude towards seafood” The text “You’re 100% wrong about….. Seafood” by Alan Perrott is about him explaining/ discussing his extreme dislike of seafood, and what an inconvenience this is to him throughout his life. language techniques of adjectives and simile are used to help us to understand his attitude towards seafood, and how annoying, uncomfortable, and inconvenient this is to him and how he wish’s he didn’t have this dislike of seafood.

The use of adjectives in this text helps us to understand the authors dislike of seafood and the inconvenience it causes him. Adjectives are describing words that are used to emphasize or describe something, and helps us to visualize things in our minds. “That was just like me, except with the essence of seafood and mad, staring, red rimmed eyes” uses the adjectives of “staring, red rimmed eyes” to help us visualize what a strain the “essence of seafood” has on his body, and that he dislikes it so much he is almost having a allergic reaction, where his eyes are “red rimmed” and “staring”. This helps us understand what a dislike he has of seafood and what an inconvenience it causes him because when people have an allergic reaction to something, they often get red swollen eyes, but he dislikes it so much that he is getting the same effect, it must make him sick. This is obviously an inconvenience because he has to be constantly aware of any seafood so that he doesn’t have all the annoying side affects… “gasping for breath” is another quote using the adjective “gasping” to show how much he is panting and how out of breath he is as a result of his “missus” having “scoffed a sneaky salmon” in his house. He must dislike the smell so much that he has to “gasp” for breath outside to try and clear his body of any fishy air. This helps us understand his attitude towards seafood because it clearly shows that he dislikes it so much he is having to gasp for breath, which we can all relate to. This would be an inconvenience to him be cause his family could never have fish when he was near, which would make him wish he didn’t dislike fish so he could save himself the annoyance of his discomfort.

Simile is another language feature that is used to add meaning to the text by saying one object/idea is like another, to emphasize a particular aspect of it. “I do little more than recoil like Dracula” is a simile used in the text saying his reaction to fish is like like Dracula recoiling from sunlight. This helps us understand the authors attitude towards seafood because it shows he must dislike the smell of fish so much that he has to “recoil like Dracula” to escape it, implying it causes him pain or discomfort, hence showing us his extreme dislike of seafood. Another simile used is “causing all manners of side affects, including blue on blue eyes. That was just like me, except with the essence of seafood and mad, staring, red rimmed eyes.” This quote is explaining his reaction causes lots of side effects, just like from the movie Dune, except the side effects are bad, not good. This helps us understand his attitude towards seafood because he is saying the side affects he gets from seafood are bad and uncomfortable, and bad, not good. This is a reason why he dislikes seafood, and the way he casually relates his reaction to seafood to a movie shows what a normal part of everyday life his dislike of seafood is.