Ping-Pong In The Mentawai Island Analysis

It seems that in this text the writer is sharing to the audience about his story when he went to play Ping-Pong in the Mentawai Island. The journal he wrote seems quite strange from how he described the weird Indonesian Ping-Pong game. The attitudes of the teens cheering for the game are mostly centered on the game more than the players. The writer looks surprised by this game because it’s quite unusual, but it seems normal for the commoners in that Island. This text was written to entertain the audience perhaps, since it’s like a short story with a shocking experience for this writer, and probably also for the audience.

This text came in a website, an online typical magazine, an Indonesian Internet page. This shows from the layout of the

He starts the text with “it 's a blinding series of attacks”, this indicates a thrilling and exciting start to the text, reader’s attention is attracted from the beginning, and the writer wants them to be alert from the beginning. So this text has quite an effective start to the text. The starting paragraph is describing what situation he’s in, then in the second paragraph the writer tell us where he is, and what he’s exactly doing, playing Ping-Pong in an Indonesian island. He says, “At home, I love Ping-Pong” but, we know that it is a different style of game in the Indonesian Island when he says; “the game confuses me”. It shows how the teens watching the game are thrilled more by it than the players, when the writer says, “they make short bursts of odd noises” this shows how they are more interested in the actual game rather than cheer for the players. The writer conveyed a tone of confusion there. The writer gives us a bit a hint of quotes from the teens who are with him in the game, w=so we can feel the atmosphere he is in, and relate to it, like when he quotes, “Four seero”. This also shows how he conveyed the exact same accent they say it in, so the readers understand the difference in culture, the writer’s and the teens form Indonesia. On the twenty third line, the writer used the rule of three; he said “Crouch. Uncoil. Slam.” He used a

The layout comes in short paragraphs with an image. We can see that the text is interactive, for example, “Mentawai” and “Mentawai Islands” are underlined, to show they have a link to another page, if the reader wanted to know about this Island, perhaps it might be an advertisement to a trip to this Island. We also see links to different social media websites such as ‘Facebook’ and ‘twitter’, they want the reader to follow the website ‘Islands’ on their social media pages so that their posts are available and advertised to a wide range of people who are interested in going on trips to Islands. We see that in one of the paragraphs he dreamt of a tsunami, but the teens shouts for the game woke him up, paragraph three, this shows the contrast between two things, from a scary, and sad dream, to a joyful game of ping-pong. But from lines 46-48, an elder speaks to the writer and tells him how tsunamis are normal here “part of life” like they happen a lot, and how “these teens returned to Padang to see their families after the earthquake” but they still seem happy and they continue on with their life playing this ping-pong game excitedly, which shows again how normal it is to have an