My Social Mobility Journey Feels More like an Exhausting, Endless Quest - Poppy Noor

’’My social mobility journey feels more like an exhausting, endless quest’’ is an article written by Poppy Noor on the 26th of November 2016. Poppy Noor is a journalist from London. She usually writes about class, politics, education etc. In this particular case, Noor is discussing the social class in Great Britain and states that the country is a class society, where it actually matters what social class you belong to. It has a great impact on future job opportunities and living standards for people who have ‘’poor’’ backgrounds and are less privileged than others.

Poppy Noor is writing on the basis of her own story, which is easily seen by her use of personal pronouns and, of course, her describing how her own life was growing up in a class society, ‘’Before going to Cambridge, I was from the type of family that, the “State of Britain” report tells us, is 1.5 times less likely to get careers advice...’’ She is very descriptive while telling her story coming from a ‘’poor’’ family. She writes about her getting free food at school and her friends helping her economically, which is rather unusual. Also, for her to get a decent career, she would have to work two jobs while living with her mother and boyfriend. She also mentions how she would have a lack of sleep, and to get close to a decent amount she would have to sleep on the train. The reason for her doing all of that was, of course, one thing,”..I want to be there. I want to be middle class.”

She is using a lot of pathos in the text, because she is appealing to our emotions by telling how hard it is to be young and poor. Ethos also appears in the text, because she is an expert on how it is to be young in London, and she is a journalist. Therefore, the receiver has no trouble trusting the text because of her own life experience. The whole purpose of the text is basically to inform the reader about the negative aspects of aiming after a ‘’better life’’ in Great Britain.

The text is also very reflective