Analyse af 'More Than Coffee: New York’s Vanishing Diner Culture'

The article is written by George Blicher (b. 1941) when he presents “More Than Coffee: New York’s Vanishing Diner Culture” (non-fiction) as the third most important in his life. In “More than Coffee: New York’s Vanishing Diner Culture” Explains George Blicher about the different diners in New York, to the newsreaders around his own experiences through the ages, as a customer. But he does not only describe diners, he also describes the historical elements and cultural experiences through ages, and it describes George as little. Diners are small restaurants which are very popular in the US. But also, in Eastern Europe and Canada. They serve food as normal but has a unique atmosphere that makes people come and eat there before they go to work.

The composition is a very traditional composition. A title, an introduction, a main text and finally a conclusion. The title and introduction fits in very well together, as the title captures one, and then reads the introduction. The main topic hangs very well out of the article as we both get historical experiences and the author's own personal experience of his relationship with diners. But of course, the professional attitudes to the concept of a diner. The sender in the text, is of course George Blicher. He is known as a scripter and a journalist. He is a diner’s expert when we get to the bottom. He goes around to different diners and evaluates them. George Blicher is also a researcher in various things. The recipients are readers who read the New York Times. But if you have to take the specific group, it is people who visit the various diners in US. The language and style of the article is very formal, and the language is written by George Blicher, who tells his own stories and his backgrounds on life as Diner-Expert. He uses some metaphors to explain things back in time. The author of text has a message to get out to people, and to tell them that diners are still important in our society, it is important to keep our cultural sights, and not at least the team of locals and those who visit "their" diner. The style gives us a first-person view. Already from the beginning, our writer gives us a good perspective from his angel. We can see that it is a first-person narrator because he uses “I, and my”: “For the past 25 years – since the divorce – I’ve lived a good part of my life in diners. Without them I might be slimmer, but also crazier and more unhappy” (P. 1 ll. 1-2). That shows that he is talking from his own personal view. The writer is very formal and includes some sociolegal speeches.