Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart

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feelings about a few things. He expresses his feelings about Daniel and expresses his thoughts about things happening in the world. Holistic Learning: Our unit covers every aspect of Keane’s essay, fostering a well-rounded understanding.

The setting also has a significant role to play in triggering an emotional response from the reader in the opening paragraphs. Keane creates a peaceful and tranquil setting in the opening paragraphs through his word choice. He says " there is a soft quiet in our apartment". This highlights the calm silence of his apartment and also emphasises the Here Keane gives detail about the Here Keane gives detail about the wounds and hardships the children wounds and hardships the children in war torn countries are suffering. in war torn countries are suffering. The detail of this anecdote and The detail of this anecdote and image makes the text more emotive image makes the text more emotive and engaging.and engaging. But his son was too far away to hear his last words, his final breath, and all the things they might have wished to say to one another were left unspoken. Yet now Daniel, I must tell you that when you let out your first powerful cry in the delivery room of the Adventist Hospital and I became a father, I thought of your grandfather and, foolish though it may seem, hoped that in some way he could hear, across the infinity between the living and the dead, your proud statement of arrival. For if he could hear, he would recognise the distinct voice of family, the sound of hope and new beginnings that you and all your innocence and freshness have brought to the world.

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The colony is no more. The baby has grown into a boy and he now has a lovely younger sister. And I have greying hair and no longer roam the war zones of the world. This much - at least- has changed. The word choice of “coming” gives me the idea that he has waited and wanted for him, and now that he has finally arrived his whole world has been turned upside down. He looks on things differently now and Daniel has caused him to re-evaluate the risks he has taken as a reporter. I feel that the writer’s use of imagery to convey information helps me to understand his thoughts and emotions throughout the letter.

This world will be a place of persecution for God’s people, getting worse and worse rather than better and better (chs. 2; 7). The Lord will judge the kingdoms of this world and bring them to an end, replacing them with his own kingdom that will never end. This kingdom will be ruled by “one like a son of man” who comes “with the clouds,” a figure who combines human and divine traits ( 7:13). In writing I spoke not just about becoming a father, but also about my own past, about loss and the failure of dreams, about the pain of different children I had met along the roads of war, about my father and how alcohol had taken him from me.The text takes the format of a letter from a new father to his newly born son. Keane uses this to reflect on his life experience as not only a new father but also a war correspondent. It also reflects on the horrors of child suffering he has witnessed, his relationship with his alcoholic father and how fatherhood clearly changes his outlook on life. The writer is conflicted. He is very happy and overjoyed about his son but also feels differently when it comes to the world. He thinks the world is a very cruel place because of the things he has seen with his won two eyes. Letter to Daniel is about Daniel’s father writing a letter to him explaining how hr is so Letter to Daniel is about Daniel's father writing a letter to him explaining how he is so protective of Daniel. In Rwanda people were trying to kill each other because they were different race. In Fergal Keane's essay "letter To Daniel" the writer tells his son howhe wants to protect him from everything that happens in the world. Word choiceWord choice -’veered’ gives the -’veered’ gives the sense he has been inches away sense he has been inches away from death due to the risks he from death due to the risks he takes, like a car on the edge of a takes, like a car on the edge of a cliff cliff