Reflection Section Penguin Massacre

Text Title: Endangered Penguins Killed by Swarm of bees in a rare attack in Cape Town.

Text Type: Article

Text Creator: Stuff Article

Text Purpose:  To inform us about the penguin massacre in Cape Town

Date: Tuesday 21st September

Summary: The article begins with a brief explanation about where 63 penguins were brutally massacred by a swarm of bees, one of the penguins even stung more than 27 times. The middle of the article talks about the only reason this occurs was that the hive was agitated and then found the penguins to attack. The final summary explains due to this rare occurrence the penguins in Namibia, South Africa are now considered endangered because of the population decrease. The penguins are now on International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list.

Why is the text written the way it is? The text is written the way it is in the article because its main goal is to inform us about the rare occurrence in South Africa. 

In whose interest is the text? The interest is set to the wider world like students, children, parents, and grandparents. This is because its purpose is to spread the information to prevent cases like these ever again.