Short Answer: How are you positioned to respond to young Australian drug smugglers in 'Drug Death Row'

Alexander Carlton has manipulated various methods of construction in, 'Drug Death Row', in order to position the western democratic audience to respond with sympathy for the young Australian drug smugglers. We are positioned to view the young Australian's as naive, and therefore not responsible for their actions. Carlton encourages the reader to believe that countries such as, Indonesia, Malaysia and China, just to name a few, enforce overly strict laws in respect to drug trafficking. …

…able to make the best decisions. The emotive language conveys the fact that youth as young as 16 become treated lower then animals as a result to one irrational decision, often for the rest of their lives. Thus I am encouraged, as a democratic reader, to respond with sympathy for the mistreatment of young Australian drug smugglers, as I am able to identify that the sentencing and treatment of the convicted youth is inhumane and irrational.