Racism In Stan Grant's Speech By Markus Zusak

The messenger and Stan Grant’s speech Racism is destroying the Australian dream have challenged my perspective in many different ways, making me realise that everything is not as it seems. The messenger has a continuous amount of twists, making you change your viewpoint of the characters continuously making the novel entertaining and exciting. Markus Zusak has written an excellent book with an enormous amount of techniques and ideas. He also has amazing characters with different characteristics making every character unique in their own way along with showing that every person has their own problem. On the other hand Stan Grant talks about racism, which challenges your perspective on the issue to this day.
There are a variety of techniques in the messenger including that each chapter is a card for example, in part 4 each chapter is an ace of hearts or 2 of hearts and so on. This
By doing this it makes people wonder what is the Australian dream actually is and do we want it this way? Like The Messenger Grant also uses rhetorical questions such as “who are we? And what sort of country do we want to be?” The reason for this is to get people to question their knowledge and perspective on people and the world. He also uses direct speech such as “we, you and our” which is also used in The Messenger. He uses this technique because he wants everyone to feel included and tell everyone that they are a part of this and can help stop this issue. Lastly Grant uses tone, “read about it. It happened.” This emphasises the phrase and the importance of it making people realise that what he is stating is true as well as his deep anger of the issue and the hurt within his voice. He does this to make people listen and pay attention, but also to make people feel what he has felt within his