Severn Suzuki

1. Lists

1.1. • You don’t know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. • You don’t know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. • You don’t know how to bring back an animal now extinct. • And you can’t bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert.

1.2. I could be one of those children living in the Favellas of Rio; I could be a child starving in Somalia; a victim of war in the Middle East or a beggar in India.

1.3. • not to fight with others, • to work things out, • to respect others, • to clean up our mess, • not to hurt other creatures • to share – not be greedy.

2. Repetition

2.1. I am here to speak

2.2. I am afraid

2.3. I’m only a child

3. Quotes

3.1. “I wish I was rich and if I were, I would I wish I was rich and if I were, I would give all the street children food, clothes, medicine, shelter and love and affection.”

4. Rhetorical questions

4.1. Did you have to worry about these little things when you were my age?

4.2. If a child on the street who has nothing, is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?

4.3. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do?

5. Imagery

5.1. starving children around the world whose cries go unheard.

5.2. great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies