“In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad”

The article “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad” is not typical journalism because even through it answers the main question (who, when, where, what and even how and why). But the article also has a narrative tone to it; the article uses rhetorical devices to tell the story along with the facts of what happened. But the rhetorical devices are applied mainly to the outer environment of the problem and the characters involved in it.  The article does not concentrate on the character’s inner world. This article is a new journalism kind of article because it explores deeper than typical journalism would and it tells the event with a narrative voice that is also not used in typical journalism. The elements of journalism presented in it are that it involves research of true events, responds to specific questions. But the article also presents a literary approach for the writer is creative while writing (presents various points of view to the explosion, gives possible explanations and causes to the problem) and it also writes about specific people as if to create a sentimental connection with the story.

The story leaves the reader wondering of the situation on China and its workers and it also offers a hidden truth of some of the biggest companies in the world, such as Apple. As a reader the article left me feeling sorry for the people involved in the accident and it also left me wandering about what Apple is doing. Personally, I buy many Apple products as do a lot of people and after having read the article I’m thinking if somehow I am a cause for such a things to happen. The story also leaves me with hope that Apple changes the work situation for these people that are working for them and helping them get money and become one of the greatest companies in the world.