Good morning teachers and students. My Speech today will be on the topic of authority and the individual that is shown through the texts: "The chant of J Blacksmith", "Excerpts from various law documents" and a cartoon by Leunig called "First day at school". The novel "Chant of J Blacksmith" by Thomas Keneally described a hierarchy of authority and the struggles of an individual to fit in. The hierarchy can be broken down to 2 major …showed first 75 words of 858 total…

…showed last 75 words of 858 total…on. Is it just pure laziness? Or maybe is it that they predicted that their Result was like J blacksmith, a useless struggle changing nothing? With this I conclude my speech and it could be seen from the 3 texts that I have used that an authority which is unjust and corrupt will lead to rebellion in the individual and for a society to function ideally, it is necessary to maintain balance of power between the 2.