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Kevin Rudd's Sorry Speech

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The Sorry Speech, spoken by Kevin Rudd, apologised on behalf of the government towards indigenous Australians for the forced removal of the ‘Stolen Generation.' I believe the sorry speech had good intentions and some literary devices, including imagery and language, but needed to sound more sincere and connected to the Aborigines as it is aimed towards them.

In my opinion, the Sorry Speech had good intentions and included a mixture of some effective language and imagery, but also a large portion of polished and very formal language. ‘Extract 2’ included sections of well written imagery which caused the text to be vastly more emotional and intriguing. For example, ‘they ran for their mothers, screaming, but they could not get away ...Tears flowing, her mum tried clinging to the sides of the truck as her children were taken …show more content…

I also felt that the vocabulary could have been a little more intriguing, emotional and closer to the indigenous language, because even though the purpose of the text is not to entertain but apologise, it would sound more sincere than, again, polished and very formal language. As I am not an indigenous Australia, the text was not targeted at me but the Indigenes so I do not have a background to my opinion of the ‘Sorry Speech,' but i did feel quite astonished at the fact the Rudd included in the text that he had, 'called around to see her just a few days ago.' This to me felt as if the apology had not been thoroughly planned as he had only seen her a few days ago and the use of 'just' to emphasise the small amount of days. He also 'called around to see Nana Nungala Fejo which sounds quite rude as it is not polite to invite yourself over to someone else's house. It actually made me feel guilty because Rudd represents the whole country and my race, the European

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