Using Reason to Understand the Speech
What reasonable conclusions can you draw from this
passage?
Here, you may be delegates of your governments,
business people, organisers, reporters, or politicians, but
really you are mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers,
aunts and uncles, and all of you are someone's child.
I'm only a child yet I know we are all part of a famíly, five
billion strong in fact, 30 million species strong-and
borders and governments will never change that.
"The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes,"
Severn Cullis-Suzuki
Suzuki wants to remind the delegates of their
children
Suzuki wants to seem too young to understand the
issues
O Suzuki wants the delegates to think of the world as
one big family
Suzuki wants the delegates to realize that even a
child understands the problem
O Suzuki wants to blame other countries