TOW #7 - “Italian Village Devastated by Sunday’s Earthquake: ‘We’ve Returned to the Stone Age’"'

Castelluccio Di Norcia, Italy, is a village on the central Italian mountain that was impacted the most by a horrific earthquake that occurred in Italy on Sunday October 10, 2016. In Time, Matteo Witt and Carlo Piovana wrote an article, “Italian Village Devastated by Sunday’s Earthquake: ‘We’ve Returned to the Stone Age’” to inform their readers about the devastating damages that resulted due to the earthquake. Witt and Piovana are both writers for the Associated Press. There was an earthquake in Italy during August of this year that left 300 dead and about 15,000 of the citizen’s north of Rome being provided with shelter. Thirteen citizens refuse to leave their homes, most of them farmers, because they do not want to leave their animals or their livelihood behind. These people believe that leaving their homes would cause them to “truly have nothing left to come back for” (Witt and Piovana). The citizens of northern Italy were advised to move into housing that would be safer such as camper vans or containers, a better protected house.  People have described northern Italy after the earthquake as returning to the stone age or experiencing the apocalypse. Due to the destruction caused by the earthquake, it was almost impossible to get to Castelluccio without a helicopter. Medical supplies such as water and food were transported to Castelluccio three days after the earthquake occurred due to the inability to safely arrive to Castelluccio. In this article Witt and Piovana use exposition and strong diction to express the terrible effects the earthquake left on northern Italy. The exposition in the article is to explain the aftermath of the earthquake and show how people and homes were affected. The strong diction is used to express to the readers how atrocious the earthquake was in Italy. The author’s purpose in this article is to inform the readers to completely comprehend the earthquake’s effect in northern Italy. The readers of this article wanted to become better informed about the aftermath of the earthquake. I believe that these authors’ successfully accomplished their purpose because they efficiently informed their readers the effects of the earthquake in northern Italy.

http://time.com/4554305/earthquake-italy-norcia/?xid=homepage