We Can Be Heroes Analysis

The film ‘We can be heroes: Australian of the Year’ demonstrates languages people use which show a lot about who they are. Languages can reveal about a person’s gender, their educational level and their social status. In this film it gives examples of characters that use their own language to show who they are. For example Daniel Sims, Ja’mie King and Ricky Wong all have their own way of speaking and communicating with others.
Daniel Sims lives in South Australia with his mother, little brothers and sister and also his hearing impaired twin brother, Nathan. Sims family is known to be country side people. Daniel was nominated for Australian of the year for donating one of his eardrums to his near-deaf brother, Nathan. As he doesn’t know sign
Ja’mie has sponsored many of the Sudanese children for Global Vision, which gave her the National Record. Due to her work of raising money, Global Vision decided to make her the ‘face’ of their organisation. Ja’mie is a popular girl at Hilford Girls’ Grammar School. She and her group of three friends are very superficial, caring only about their looks. For example one of the Sudanese children she sponsored named Sonali. Sonali apparently writes a letter to Ja’mie telling her that she is in Australia and asking Ja’mie to visit her. Ja'mie is sceptical at first but soon realizes that this visit will bring a lot of media attention, so she invites one of her friends along because she ‘is good at taking photos.’ From the language used by Ja’mie in the film shows a lot about her, that she loves fashion for example how she owns a portfolio and is involved in popular culture. She uses lots of morphology language such as ‘povo,’ ‘fugly,’ ‘hottie.’ Which is also the teenage language used these days, as she says ‘I’m sooooo not doing that’ by dragging the word ‘so’ gives the sentence a dramatic feel. She is racist and only thinks about herself to become popular throughout media. Therefore Ja’mie King uses her own language which shows more about who she