A Word from Our Coach

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There have been complaints from supporters over the aggressive and bad behaviour of some parents last season. That then leads Sam, coach of this local sports club to write this newsletter to presents his view towards next season that all sorts of behaviour that will disappoint the supports from parents last season should stop, for benefits of the team and the kids. Sam firstly displays parents with bad behaviour using the visual cartoon to create the negative feeling on these parents. Sam portrays these types of parents as a donkey that represents the fool, supported by the text saying “I wish these sports aggressive parents could see themselves as we do”. Sam stated his personal feeling and also outlined the complains he received that theses ‘bad parents’ are disgusting and scary using the donkey’s aggressive face and signs of abusive language from his mouth. This cartoon will affect the reader to understand that these behaviours are unacceptable and parents should not act like that. Sam then continues his newsletter by outlining the importance of sportsmanship to create the picture of the real purpose of playing sport. Throughout his letter, Sam frequently mentions sportsmanship. When Sam uses the word “heroic” while he was talking about sportsmanship, he’s attempting to have parents see the importance of sportsmanship by raising the definition of sportsmanship by connecting it to something extraordinary like hero. Sam also compares sportsmanship as a model for life attempting to make parents see the importance of sportsmanship and stop the behaviour that will destroy sportsmanship in both the children and the sport. Sam uses the phase “good parents won’t come and coach will hang up their whistle” attempting to have parents sees that if they still behave badly, the team won’t be here for their children anymore Coach Sam lastly attempted to bring sympathy from
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