Cu Chi Tunnel’s Brochure
Foreign visitors, tourists, and people of the region are the
target audiences of Cu Chi Tunnel’s Brochure (n.d.). Digging the
underground tunnel system of more than 70 km long represents the determination
of Vietnamese to battle with the foreigners of French and Americans. The
brochure conveys this message by using heroic words and images. This includes
the compound terms such as “the holy revolutionary base” and “enemy fighting
and national unity”. The photographs are also used to emphasise the heroic sense
of past war. The map of the tunnels, aligned with the portrait of a young
Vietnamese lady, historical monuments, and well-structured constructions are
all rhetorically symbolising Vietnam’s revolutionary heroism. The
heading “Ben Douc Martyrs’ Memorable Temple” The expression implies that
all those who have been killed during the war were sacrificed their lives
for the country.
Unlike this brochure ‘Alternate Perspectives on the Cu Chi
Tunnels’ reports about the Cu Chi tunnels without any heroic sense and provides
an impartial narration of the story. This difference can be easily noticed by
the use of words and the tone of language used in the two texts about Cu Chi
Tunnels. Comparing to the heroic words used in the brochure the visitors use a
plain language without any metaphorical expressions and revolutionary
vocabulary. The third kind of story is the narration by an Australian visitor
who narrates about the tunnel with fear and danger. The camouflage for in this
text is described to be “scarcely wide enough for your shoulders” and the text
about inside the tunnel as an unpleasant place you need to use a gas mask which
has taken many lives.
Reference:
Cu Chi Tunnel’s Brochure. (n.d.). Retrieved October 20, 2019, from https://www.cuchitunnels.vn/
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