Paper 1 Question 2
Richard Branson's letter was written to a stranger. His purpose of writing this letter was to express his advice on how to achieve absolute happiness by persuading the reader with convincing points made on how it has created happiness within himself. Like I mentioned, the text was written as a letter. With a letter, it has its destination name, along with ending it with who the writer consisted of. He started off his letter by saying ‘dear stranger’ as well as ending it off with ‘Happy Regards.’ This specific letter was written from a first person perspective. This helps the reader get a better understanding of the emotions that Richard Branson was expressing to try and persuade the reader to believe and connect with the thoughts and feelings he was trying to convey. As for the structure of this letter, he made it very open to anyone who needed to read it. This was shown when he addressed it to ‘stranger’ like I had mentioned previously. This m...