Faith Bandler

Question 1

Purpose

Answer 1

Inspire an audience of like-minded people to actively participate in the process of reconciliation, communicate her sadness that reconciliation has slowed

Question 2

Acknowledgement of her audience

Answer 2

Directly acknowledge her audience “past memories have been stirred with some of you whom I’ve had a chance to speak with” - appeal to ethos through personal anecdote

Question 3

Addressing all her audience

Answer 3

Informal expression, speech is more conversational. Inclusive in her argument = addressing all Australians, rather than dividing her audience. Unite us - work together

Question 4

Importance of reconciliation

Answer 4

Allusion to 1 Corinthians 13;13 “faith, hope and charity” Asserts the importance of reconciliation

Question 5

Journey and Struggle

Answer 5

Extended metaphor of a journey up a mountain to convey the relentless struggle of reconciliation “stone…tracked…lived, breathed, struggled and climbed those ramparts of the rugged past” Physical effort - alliteration and accumulation

Question 6

Blind and ignoring

Answer 6

People willingly blind, ignoring the problems that exist in the past and present. Juxtaposes these people with “decent people” showing her faith and hope
“Need to heal the wounds of the past, the terrible indignities”

Question 7

Stubborn people

Answer 7

“Chaired in their stubbornness” then proclaim, “if we need, to go on , without them then we must.” Important to acknowledge the past - high modality language

Question 8

Commonality

Answer 8

Celebrate diversity and achieve equality through commonalities “Why in the name of creation our differences should matter. Why is it so hard to find our commonalities?” rhetorical question encouraging diversity