The invasion of the Body Snatcher

1. Topic: The article focuses on the invasion of the baby snatchers which become worse recently. The headline of this article “Invasion of the Baby Snatcher “.

2. Content: The article covers a report about child abductions nowadays. The writer also tries to make the readers realize about it by using the mass media as the medium to spread the messages and the latest news about the abduction. For the example, the kidnapping and murder of Danielle Van Dam in San Deigo, disappearance of Elizabeth Smart in Utah, Sarah Payne who left a game of hide-and-seek with her siblings in July 2000 and was found dead 16 days later. Milly Dowler who still missing since her disappearance on March 21 and the most recently Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells, two best friends who vanished from Sonam Cambridgeshire on August 4.

3. Source: The article comes from the “viewpoint” section in a magazine title ‘Time Magazine’. This article was published on 26 August 2002.

4. Audience: The article is written for public readers. But this article it is specifically written for parents to be aware about their children safety.

5. The rhetorical function: The writer try to inform the readers, especially parents about the worse of children abduction nowadays. It tries to rise up what happen to the already lost children. On the other hand, the writer does want to warn the parents to be aware of their children safety.

6. Purpose: The article aims to inform advice, educate and warn their readers about the abduction cases that happened recently.

7. Perspective: The stance taken in this article it is likely to inform the reader especially parents about their children safety. It is because there are a lot of cases regarding to the issue nowadays. On the other hand, the writer also warns parents to be more concern about this issue.

8. Positioning: There are many people involved with this issue. They are the invasion, children who had been abducted, the parents, mass media, reporters and editors. This article describes the children as victims that are being murdered and kidnapping, harmed and neglected and being abandoned by their parents. On the other hand, the mass media was pictured as the people which responsible to solve this problems.

9. Impact: The effects on the readers are slightly to be influence and start to think how to prevent this cases and how to help the lost children. Besides, many people will realize with mass media to rich up the finding progress. Since the writers stated that, in the US the press Coverage cyclone kicked up month ago with kidnapping and murder to several children.

10. Visual literacy: The visual aspects of the text significant because, the writer used the image that show the two children that was the victims of the abduction cases. They are look likely very innocent and there is no guilty faces that shows by them. If we go through their face, we feel very sympathy of their luck. Besides, the headline that shows is easy to understand by the readers.