Analyzing Message in " North Korea's growing economy- and America's Misconceptions about it"

via Flickr by Larry Lamb "message in a bottle"   https://www.flickr.com/photos/49708076@N05/8519177078

In this post I analyze the text's purpose by using the questions from the Student's Guide

• express an idea or opinion?  Yes-ish. I think the text expresses the idea that : one , everyone needs capitalism even communist countries, and two I also think it  expresses an opinion of what the author feels about America's sanctions and it's effects of the North Korean citizens.

• respond to occasion or text? Yes it's responding to the sanctions that were placed on North Korea's trade that served to only further hinder the economy and the people, and not so much the government as the U.S was probably hoping.

• inform? Yes the main word in the title is " Misconceptions" and the author is informing the audience of something they didn't know: that the made in china goods that are everywhere were technically made in china but by North Korean factories by North Korean workers.

• Analyze?  I think so . becasue not only does it inform the texts brings up interviews and what the author actually observed while at the border between Dandong, China and North Korea.  It goes into detail of who's working at the factories, who's collaborating with factories, what the citizens of China think and why it matters. 

• persuade? No I don't think it's trying to persuade the audience of anything . I think it's to get them informed and make them think.

• reflect? Maybe it's reflecting on the topic of sanctions and the fact that they only spur creative /illegal ways of getting money to the government. 

• advocate? I don't think it's advocating anything either, becasue it's not saying they should stop or we should do something about it rather it's saying " Look. this is what is happening. sanctions aren't doing much. they can't really do much , and how can you tell a country what to do if they're just going to do it anyway?" 

• Move the readers? Sympathy, I don't know about other readers but I personally felt bad for the citizens who were getting paid 300 dollars and only getting 100 of it  for working and sleeping at a factory all year long  to feed their families while the rest of it went back to the government.

Out of all the bulleted points I think the  most important were informing , responding to an occasion and analyzing. These seem to be the author's main goals in the text  becasue of the sheer detail in the text to inform the reader about what is happening after the sanctions have been placed. The ones that weren't relevant were advocate and persuade because I don't think that's the direction the author is going for , advocate and persuade would be to get the readers to do something. and there's really nothing anyone can do . I don't think there are any underlying messages the author is trying to get across because it's all kind of straight forward it's not hinting at what anyone should be doing or even suggesting an alternative action that the government could use if anything she's just expressing her opinion with a few facts to go along with it.