Babies vs. business travelers:
Who is more annoying?
The target audiences in this article are usual travelers by airplanes who might want to
know how to avoid both business travelers and babies on fight, parents, usually mothers,
flight attendants and business travelers of course.
The choice of words the writer has chosen based on the target audience, or in other words
its lexicon are for example, “aboard”, “parents”, “babies”, “business travelers”, “bosses”
and “clients”. Which included all the target audiences (Ive mentioned earlier) just in the
first paragraph of the article. Other words are “planes”, “kids”, “invest”, “passengers”,
“boarding”, “takeoff”, “hand sanitizer” and “anti-bacterial wipes”(all these words are based
on the lexical field of the article) for people who might want to know how to avoid a
summer sickness with a sick baby beside them.
The sentence used “business travelers do to cut the tension”, well “tension” isn’t an actual
object that can be cut nut its referring to the intense situation which is really hard or tough.
So it was compared to an object that can be hardly broken or cut off, in other words
personification of the word “tension”.
With a situation of a business traveler caught up between an annoying baby and an
awkward situation with the parents inks up the use of this sentence.
The purpose of the text is it gives you advantages and disadvantages for you to decide who