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names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.”Paragraph 18
The third subtopic explains about the man behind the successful of killing Osama bin Laden. This result cannot be separated by the work hard
and struggle of American military. They have worked tirelessly to find Osama hideout and it took long time to be able to capture the terrorist who
responsible for the death of thousands American lives.
2. Superstructure Schematic
1. Summary Title and Lead
Datum 5
Osama bin Laden dead Title One of the elements in summary is title. Title is the most important
part in speech because it contains the main events and the most important in speech. The readers can grasp what is the speech about from its title. In
Obama ‟ speech, it just wrote the subject of the speech, Osama bin Laden,
has died. It does not mention about the place at all and think the place where Osama bin Laden is dead is not important.
2. Lead
Datum 6
“Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama
bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and a terrorist whos responsible for
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the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.”
Paragraph.1” Another element in summary is lead. Lead is also most important
part in speech along with title. Most of readers will only remember summary from speech that they read. Thus, lead should contain all of the
most important information in speech as well or at least contain information about main actor, main event, and main location.
As can be seen, Obama explains only the main actor, Osama bin Laden, and main event, Osama bin Laden death, without bothering to
explain about the main location where the event take place. From the strategy in writing lead, it indicates that for Barack Obama
‟ s speech, the place where Osama bin Laden was died is not important and wants the
reader only remember about the main actor and the main event.
3. Contain
Datum 7
“Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, weve made great strides
in that effort. Weve disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defence. In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government,
which had given bin Laden and Al-Qaeda safe haven and support…”Paragraph 6
The data above is describing about contain of this speech. In this paragraph, there are two points which explain of Barack Obama. These are
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the successful and the men behind killing Osama bin Laden. Therefore, he explain the contain on the top of paragraph in order to make the readers
grasp the idea from this speech.
4. Closing
Datum 8
“Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.” Paragraph 24
In this data, it explained about the closing of the speech. As can be seen that Obama gives the closing briefly and clearly only one sentence.
He does not forget to say thank you to the American people and also the wish that United Stated always blessed by the God. Obama hopes that this
event must not happen anymore.
3 Micro Structure 1.
Semantic Datum 9
It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 911
are seared into our national memory - hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black
smoke billowing up...”Paragraph 2
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One of the elements in semantic is background. In Obama ‟ s
speech, background used is the historical background. Events of 911, the building collapsed, thousands of lives taken away become Obama
‟ s background to help formulate and alerting Americans people to events in
the past. American history is often been told as a darkness side of the
country. These events are poorly understood as a time filled cruelty, deceit, and murder. This historical background is the entrance for Obama
to emphasize to the public that the dark events must not happen anymore. American should maintain the peace and security of the United State.
It can be inferred that Obama wants to assert that the bad times happened by giving historical background. The American people are less
to maintain the security and this event is caused by an organization that wants to destroy or to disrupt American country.
Datum 10
“Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, weve made great strides
in that effort. Weve disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defence. In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government,
which had given bin Laden and Al-Qaeda safe haven and support…”Paragraph 6
