Expository Oral

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Expository Oral

Anousha and Sabrena are seated on stage as a short clip is played on

the projector screen, showing the introduction of a news broadcast.

Sabrena: Good afternoon, I am Sabrena Lee.

Anousha: And I am Anousha Gilroy.

Together: And you are tuned into today’s new broadcast.

Anousha: Our main stories tonight:

‘Finding Grace’ and ‘Whose Life is it Anyway’ are both texts which

mobilise the discourse of Disablement, however, they each construct

two completely different views. Just how do they do it? We get down

and dirty discussing the effects in which the attitudes, values and

beliefs inherent and the discourses mobilised in the texts position

the readers and viewers to side with a particular opinion over

another.

Sabrena: In addition, a live debate will be taking place about

the controversial issue of euthanasia, or suicide, whichever way you

look at it, and who has the right to make the decision concerning

whether a person lives or dies. However, firstly, we will cross over

to Sam French, who is currently at the National Library of Brisbane.

(The tables are moved apart to signify a scene change)

Anousha: This is an outrage! I am reporting live from the

National Library of Brisbane where a serious felony has been

committed. All copies of the novel, ‘Finding Grace’ have been stolen,

(Holds up novel) except for this one. But why, you ask, would anyone

want to steal this book? Let me tell you.

The novel “Finding Grace”, by Alyssa Brugman is the story of a brain

damaged woman named Grace and her path to recovery. The novel is

viewed through the perspective of Grace’s new carer, a teenage girl

named Rachel. This representation of Rachel contributes to the

foregrounding of certain attitudes, values and beliefs which construct

the dominant discourse of Disablement which is evident throughout the

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